VI.14.43 Pompeii. Casa degli Scienziati.

Excavated 1839 and 1845.

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VI.14.43 Pompeii. Pre-1937-1939. Room 1, looking south-east across atrium towards tablinum and garden area.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 430a.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking east from atrium through tablinum to pseudoperistyle and mosaic fountain.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 7, looking east across tablinum towards west portico.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. 1964. Room 7, looking east towards south wall of tablinum, and towards west portico. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VI.14.43 Pompeii. September 2019. Room 7, looking west from tablinum towards entrance doorway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. October 2020.

Room 1, looking south-east across atrium towards tablinum and rooms on south side. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking east across atrium towards doorway to room 8, on right of centre.

Room 7, (on left) looking through tablinum to west portico, and north side of rear of house.

According to Jashemski, the peristyle garden, excavated in 1839, entered by a corridor from the atrium, had walls decorated in the first style.

The portico which enclosed the garden on the north and part of the west sides was supported by four fluted columns joined by a low wall.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.151).

6.14.43 Pompeii. November 1961. Looking east across atrium and south side of tablinum, towards garden area.

On the right are the doorways to Room 8 in the east wall, and Room 9 in the south wall. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 8, small room or cupboard, looking east.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 8, south-west corner.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 8, north-east corner.

According to Bragantini, the dado was yellow topped with stucco. The middle zones of the walls were white.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p.300, ambiente ‘6’)

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 9, on south side of atrium.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 9, looking towards south wall with a high red dado.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Blocked door on south side of atrium between rooms 9 and 10.

According to Bragantini, the south wall of the atrium would have had a black dado, the middle area would have been red with bordered panels.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p.299, atrio ‘2’)

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 10.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 10, looking south towards masonry bench in south-east corner of kitchen room.

According to Boyce, there was an arched niche in the west wall opposite a masonry structure.

This was in the small kitchen-like room on the south side of the atrium.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.54, no.210)

See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni. (p.180, no.63)

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 10, remains of plaster in south-west corner.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 10, looking west.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 11 on south side of entrance.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 11, on south side of entrance, looking towards west wall.

According to Bragantini, the north wall was seen to have a high red dado, with the walls above the dado painted white.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p.299, cubicolo ‘3’)

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east across south side of atrium to tablinum, from doorway of room 11.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. 1964. Looking east along south wall of atrium. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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