VI.16.15 Pompeii. Casa dell’Ara Massima or House of Pinarius or Casa di Narcisso.

Excavated 1903.

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VI.16.15 Pompeii. May 2005. Doorway to room C (centre) in south-west corner of atrium.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. December 2006.

Doorway to narrow room C to west of atrium possibly containing stairs to upper floor.  

VI.16.15 Pompeii. May 2015. Room C, looking west. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. December 2006. View to upper floor in narrow room C. 

VI.16.15 Pompeii. December 2006. View to upper floor in narrow room C. 

VI.16.15 Pompeii. May 2015. Doorway to room H in south-east corner of atrium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. December 2006. Doorway to room H to south-east of atrium.

This room had an entrance threshold of lava with the usual hole for the pivot of one door shutter leaf.

The floor was of cocciopesto and littered with pieces of slabs of marble and very small pieces of marble, arranged in groups of three, each forming a triangle.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908, (p.82)

VI.16.15 Pompeii. May 2015. Room H, threshold of doorway. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. January 2024.

Room H, looking towards north wall. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. May 2015. Room H, north wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. December 2006. North wall of room H, with east wall on the right.

Each wall was divided into three major panels, painted yellow in the centre with red at the sides.

The high frieze had a white background, and the lower dado was painted black. The eastern wall was entirely destroyed.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. May 2015. Room H, window in rebuilt east wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. January 2024.

Room H, looking towards south wall. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. May 2015. Room H, south wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. December 2006. South wall of room H, with east wall on the left.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. December 2006. Room H, detail of wall painting at west end of south wall.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. January 2024. South-west corner. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. January 2024. Looking towards south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. May 2015. Room H, looking towards south-west corner and west wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. January 2024. West wall. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. May 2015. Room H, west wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. December 2023.

Room H, painting of bird from panel at south end of west wall.

Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. December 2006. Wall painting of bird at south end of west wall in room H.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. December 2023. Room H, painting of peacock on central panel of west wall. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. December 2006. Wall painting of peacock on centre of west wall in room H.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. December 2023.

Room H, painting of bird in panel at north end of west wall.

Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. December 2006. Wall painting of bird at north end of west wall in room H.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. December 2006. Room H, return in wall at north end of west wall, with detail of wall painting of swan in flight.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. December 2006. West wall of room H.

According to NdS, the right side of the door was formed by a pilaster sticking out into the inside of the room.

This pilaster served to support the architrave.

This same pillar divided the room into two parts.

The south part was larger and covered with a vaulted ceiling; the other to the north was smaller and had a flat ceiling.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. December 2006.

Pilaster at north end of west wall in room H. Detail of wall painting of swan in flight.

VI.16.15 Pompeii, 1968. Room H, west wall of cubiculum. 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.16.15 Pompeii. May 2005.

Looking south across room M from entrance VI.16.17. The small room K can be seen behind the low wall.

According to NdS, in the north-east corner of room K was a pillar of stone blocks of Sarno.

These seemed to have belonged to an older building.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. December 2007. Room K and doorway to atrium B.

According to NdS, a small doorway with a threshold of lava connected the atrium with the rustic spaces K and L.

Both of these areas had a rough cocciopesto floor.  In the south-west corner of K, there was a masonry puteal.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. December 2007. Room M, looking west.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. December 2007. Room M, looking towards the east wall.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south across room L, towards doorway in south wall of room K, leading to atrium B.

According to NdS, in the southern wall of room L, there was a small doorway that communicated with the understairs of room N (VI.16.16).

This doorway was walled up by the ancients themselves, and a new doorway from the room under the stairs was opened onto the atrium instead (doorway in west wall of VI.16.16).

Room N was a rustic room with white plaster and a tall dado, with a small window in its west wall.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908, (p.83).

VI.16.15 Pompeii. December 2007. Latrine in south-east corner of storeroom or kitchen L.

In the exterior wall behind the toilet was a vertical terracotta pipe, this must have belonged to another toilet on the upper floor.

Also found in room L was a fusorium.

VI.16.15 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking west to entrance VI.16.16 stairs and room N.

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