VII.3.14 Pompeii. Shop. Bottega del Cavaliere. Other entrance at VII .3.15.
Linked to VII .3.11, VII .3.12, VII .3.13,
and VII .3.17.
Excavated 1837, 1843, 1849 and
1867. (Strada della Fortuna s.n = no number).
VII.3.14 Pompeii, on right. December 2018.
Looking south towards corner of junction of Via Stabiana, on left, and Via della Fortuna, on right. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.3.14 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance on junction of Via della Fortuna and Via Stabiana.
VII.3.14 Pompeii. May 2010. Entrance to shop, looking east across Via Stabiana towards Via di Nola with Bottega del Cavalieri sign.
The tavern (VII, 3, 14-15) was one of the stops of the visit of Pope Pius IX on October 22, 1849, and from where was found, together with a lot of bronze materials and marble fragments, the bas-relief of the galloping cavalier (Museo Profano, Bib. Apostolica Vaticana, inv. 4092), of which there has been much debate about its true Pompeian origin, in a controversy that does not even seem settled after the study made by Conticello (AA.VV., 1987: 31-38, tav. 2) for the catalogue of the exhibition twenty years ago dedicated to this visit.
See Uroz Sáez J., Uroz Rodríguez H.,
2008. Pompeya: Regio VII, Insula 3. Instituto
del Patrimonio Cultural de España, p. 60.