VI.14.43 Pompeii. Casa degli Scienziati.

Excavated 1839 and 1845.

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VI.14.43 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking across peristyle towards room 16 with painted decoration on west wall.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1429.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 16, west wall of exedra.

According to Bragantini, the west wall would have had a black dado.

The middle zone of the wall had a painting in the central aedicula panel, which was on a white background.

The side panels were red. The upper zone of the wall was white.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p.303, ambiente ‘19’)

According to Bragantini, the brief tiled roof had not been sufficient to protect the painting (a mythological landscape with countryside, showing perhaps, according to Warscher “The fall of Icarus”) which was in the centre of the west wall.

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. V. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p. 464).

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 16, exedra on north side of peristyle. Looking towards east wall.

According to PPM, the painting of Pindar and Corinna was found on the east wall.

Above a black zoccolo, the middle zone of the wall had a central aedicula with a red panel on either side.

At the centre was the wide gap left by the detachment of the central part of the painting, showing Pindar and Corinna (Helbig 1379, NAP inv. 9269).

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici. Vol.5. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p.463).

According to Schefold (1957) the painting was found on the north wall.

Schefold said in 1962, that the painting had been transferred to Naples Archaeological Museum, Pindar, Myrtis and Corinna.

See Schefold, K., 1962. Vergessenes Pompeji. Bern: Francke. (Pl. 57, 2)

According to Richardson, the wall painting of Pindar and Corinna, found on the north wall, had the inventory number NAP 9269.

He also gave the Helbig reference as Helbig 1379.

See Richardson, L., 2000. A Catalog of Identifiable Figure Painters of Ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum. Baltimore: John Hopkins. (p.67).

However, NAP 9269 is a painting of Bacchus and Silenus, from VII.7.32, and according to Elia the painting of Pindar, Myrtis and Corinna was inventory number: s.n (senza numero).

See Elia, O. (1932): Pitture murali e mosaici nel Museo Nazionale di Napoli. Rome: La Libreria dello Stato. (p.14, no.5: Gara di citaredo).

According to Helbig the exedra, left from peristyle, contained a painting of: Gods (deification of) of Homer. This had the same number as the above.

See Helbig, W., 1868, Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel.  (1379).

VI.14.43 Pompeii. Room 16, exedra on north side of peristyle. Painting of Pindar, Corrina and Myrtis.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number s.n.

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. V. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 463.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 16, east wall of exedra.

According to Bragantini, the east wall would have had a black dado.

The middle zone of the wall had a painting in the central aedicula panel, which had been partially removed.

The aedicula had a white background. The side panels of the wall were painted red.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway (on left) to steps to upper floor and corridor leading to room 17.

Eschebach described it as a room for stairs.

See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.217)

On the right is the doorway to room 18.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Corridor leading to room 17. 

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 17, looking north.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 17.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 17.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 18, exedra. Looking towards north-east corner.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 18, looking north.

According to Bragantini, the floor was made of cocciopesto with ornamental decoration in white tesserae, the border looked like diamond shaped netting.

The white dado of the north wall (and the south-east corner) was splashed with red.

The east wall (on the right) had a black dado, the middle and upper zones of the wall were white.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p.303, triclinio ‘16’)

VI.14.43 Pompeii. June 2019. Room 19, looking north in cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 19, south-west corner.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 19, west wall.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 19, north wall, and north-east corner.

According to Bragantini, the north wall had a high red dado.

The middle zone would have been white with false painted opus quadratum with black borders.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p.302, triclinio ‘15’)

VI.14.43 Pompeii.  December 2007.  Room 19, cubiculum, looking towards north-east corner.

The floor in this room would have been formed of cocciopesto with marble chippings.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 19, east wall.

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