VI.16.27 Pompeii. Garden entrance linked to peristyle.

Linked to VI.16.19 and VI.16.26. Excavated 1904.

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VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Small corridor Q, looking south, to doorways of rooms R, staircase (r ) and S.

The walls of all these rooms and the corridor had walls of coarse plaster.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway into room S, oecus. Looking south.

This room had a floor of cocciopesto, it was described as a large rustic room.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room S, south wall of oecus. 

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room S, west wall of oecus, with window onto garden.

According to NdS, this room was lit by the large window that would have had a wooden windowsill and jambs.

There was also another smaller window also overlooking the peristyle.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room S, north-west corner of oecus, with doorway to corridor Q.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east into room (r ), staircase.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room (r ), south wall of staircase.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Small corridor Q, looking north to portico area, with doorway to room R, on right.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room R, looking east.

According to NdS, this was also a rustic room.

An imprint of the ladder of the wooden staircase to the upper floor was reported by the excavators in this room.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908, (p.191)

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north from end of corridor Q, towards rooms N, and O.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room P, north-east corner.

According to NdS, this room had a signinum floor. The south wall contained part of a large red panel, limited to the right by a long black band.

On the red plaster of the wall was a very long graffitied inscription, but it was in such a bad condition when found, that only a few words could be read.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room O, small room or cupboard.

According to NdS, room O was a nearly triangular room with a small cupboard or recess in the west wall.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room O, recess in west wall.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room O, west wall.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room N, exedra looking out onto north portico.

According to NdS, this room opened across a wide doorway onto the east end of the north portico.

It had a lava threshold with holes for the embedding of the doorjambs and for those of the bolts.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room N, west wall.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room N north wall.

According to NdS, the wall decoration was of the first style.

In the main part of the walls were large rectangular areas arranged vertically, painted in imitation of coloured marble.

Above, at the top, were other areas where the decoration was arranged horizontally.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908, (p.191)

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room N, east wall.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room N, floor area.

According to NdS, the floor consisted of numerous pieces of marble, and the wall decoration was of the first style.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room N, floor of coloured marble chippings.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south-west across peristyle garden M, with entrance in north wall.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room K, cubiculum. Looking north to atrium of VI.16.26.

According to NdS, it seems unlikely that this room was always open at both ends.

On both the west and east walls the recess for the bed can be seen, which would be an unlikely place for a bed against an open north wall.

The floor was of cocciopesto and the walls were divided into large red and yellow panels, devoid of ornamentation.

The frieze was on a white background.

It was only preserved in a small area, but showed arabesques and fantastic architecture, with a flying swan in the middle.

The dado was red but did not show any decoration at all.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room K, looking north along east wall with recess.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room K, looking south towards recess in east wall.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room K, recess in west wall.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room K, looking north along west wall with recess.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009.  Small doorway in west wall of room K, leading into room L, tablinum.

According to NdS –

in ancient times the south side of the tablinum had also opened in its entire width onto the peristyle M, but this wide entrance was later walled in.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room L, west wall of tablinum.

According to NdS, the tablinum opened in almost its entire width from the atrium on its north side.

It had wooden door jambs and maybe even had a wooden threshold.

The east and west walls preserved their painted decoration as well as a small wall to the left of the wide northern doorway.

Each wall showed three large panels, the central yellow, the sides red.
These were best preserved on the west wall, where on the yellow central panel was a painting of Atalanta and Meleager.

The painting was very poorly preserved.

On the left was Atalanta sitting on a chair, on the right was Meleager.

Near to him on the left was a dog resting on its back legs, with its head pointing towards its master.

Between the dog and Atalanta, the boar, profiled to the right, was on the floor.

In the middle of the two red panels of the west wall were small landscapes, without frames, and very faded.

The portion of the north wall, to the left of the large doorway to the atrium, offered a red panel with the painting of a mask in the centre.

On the white frieze, were the usual architecture with suspended objects and arabesques.

The badly preserved dado on a black background was divided into panels by means of reddish bands.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908, (p.189)

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room L, floor of tablinum. The floor was Opus signinum.

VI.16.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Room L, east wall of tablinum, looking north-east.

Nearly all faded was a small landscape that probably would have been seen in the centre of the red panel at the left end of the east wall.

The yellow panel in the centre was missing almost entirely, as also the red panel on the right end of this wall.

This red panel was mainly missing because of the area used by the doorway into room K.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908, (p.189)

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