VII.1.40 Pompeii. Domus M. Caesi Blandi or Casa di Marte e Venere

or House of Mars and Venus. Rear entrance at VII.1.43.

Excavated 1848 and 1862. (Strada degli Augustali 22).

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. June 2019.

Looking towards tablinum 11 and south-west corner of atrium, with doorway to oecus 12 and the west ala, 3a. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2005.

Looking towards west side of tablinum 11 and south-west corner of atrium, with doorway to oecus 12 and the west ala, 3a.

VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2018. West ala 3a, looking towards south wall with doorway to oecus 12.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019.

Doorway to oecus 12 in south wall of west ala 3a, looking towards doorway to north portico of peristyle.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Oecus 12, looking west from doorway.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Oecus 12, looking towards upper north wall.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Oecus 12, looking towards north wall.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Oecus 12, detail from north wall at west end.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. 1959. North wall of oecus 12. 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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VII.1.40 Pompeii. 1959. North wall of oecus 12. 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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VII.1.40 Pompeii. 1971.

Oecus 12, detail of painted garland of fruit and leaves from west end of north wall. 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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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Oecus 12, Looking towards north wall, north-west corner and west wall.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Oecus 12, looking towards upper west wall.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Oecus 12, west wall.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Oecus 12, detail from west wall.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Oecus 12, detail from west wall at north end.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Oecus 12, detail from west wall at south end.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii.

Anonymous drawing of one of the Caryatid/Herms from the south end of the west wall of oecus, playing a flute.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 1213.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Oecus 12, looking towards south-west corner and west wall.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Oecus 12, Looking towards upper south wall.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Oecus 12, looking towards south wall and south-west corner.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Oecus 12, detail from south wall at west end.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. 1959.

Decoration from south wall of oecus 12. 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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VII.1.40 Pompeii.

Oecus 12, reproduction painting of female figures of herms carrying a garland of fruit and leaves.

See Niccolini, F., 1890. Le Case ed i Monumenti di Pompei: Book 3, (Tav. XXI).

VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Looking south-west across impluvium in atrium.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. West ala 3a, looking towards south wall.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. West ala 3a, looking west across flooring from atrium with detail of painted walls.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. West ala 3a, black and white mosaic doorway threshold.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. West ala 3a, detail from mosaic threshold at north end of doorway.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. West ala 3a, looking south-west across flooring with central emblema.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019.

West ala 3a, looking west across flooring towards black and white mosaic of central emblema with joined together circles.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking north-west towards west ala, 3a, from tablinum.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 306.

VII.1.40 Pompeii. c.1930.

Looking north along west side of atrium, and threshold of west ala 3a in black and white mosaic and polychrome tesserae.

See Blake, M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p. 60, 76, & 108, & Pl.18, tav 3). 

VII.1.40 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39.

Medallion from west wall of atrium, found on the pilaster between the two cubicula in the north-west corner. 

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1681.

VII.1.40 Pompeii. W.1413.

Medallion from west wall of atrium, found on the pilaster between the two cubicula in the north-west corner. 

Wall painting of medallion with heads of a couple, or perhaps Hippolytus and Phaedra or Aphrodite and Ares, according to Schefold & Helbig.

See Schefold, K., 1962. Vergessenes Pompeji. Bern: Francke. (tav.180, 2)

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1247)

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

VII.1.40 Pompeii.

Painting by Nicola La Volpe of a medallion with a couple, perhaps Mars and Venus, perhaps Hippolytus and Phaedra.

This medallion was seen between two doorways on the west wall in the north-west corner of the atrium.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 528.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii.

Drawing by Nicola La Volpe of three subjects seen on the north and west wall of the atrium.

On the left, the figure with a jug and plate could be seen on the yellow background on the north wall at the west end, but now much faded and only outline remains. (Sogl. 830).

In the centre is the medallion from the pilaster between two doorways, see above.

On the right, the figure with the lyre could be seen at the north end of the west wall on a red background, but only the lower part remains now. (Sogl.821).

See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: Giannini. (830, p.159) (821, p.158).

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 527.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking south across tablinum 11 to peristyle 17.

VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2017. Looking south through tablinum 11 to peristyle. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Looking south-west across peristyle garden from north portico.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019.

North-west corner of peristyle garden, looking across north portico.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north-east across peristyle through side window to doorways in north portico.

VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east across peristyle through side window.

VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Looking from north portico towards east side of peristyle garden.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Triclinium 18, on east side of peristyle garden.

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VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east across peristyle towards doorway to triclinium 18, through side window.

VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking south-east across peristyle through side window.

VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking south-east across peristyle through side window.

VII.1.40 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Head of a female on herm in peristyle.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 470.

VII.1.40 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking across peristyle towards north portico and north-east corner.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1455.

VII.1.40 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking north across peristyle towards herm of a bearded head.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 471.

VII.1.40 Pompeii. February 2021.

Limestone inscription recording the rebuilding of the town walls in about 70BCE after the damages caused by Sulla’s siege, on display in Antiquarium.

Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

According to Epigraphic Database Roma it was found in VII.1.40, House of M. Caesius Blandus (or of Mars and Venus), in pieces 'some of which served for the edge of a door, and others spread on the floor of the peristyle' (aa. 1862-1868).

VII.1.40 Pompeii. Copy, as transcribed, from Fiorelli’s 1897 Guida di Pompei, (p.94, No.2)

Limestone inscription recording the rebuilding of the town walls in about 70BCE after the damages caused by Sulla’s siege, found in fragments.

According to Epigraphic Database Roma this reads:

[·] C̲u̲s̲p̲i̲u̲s T(iti) f(ilius), M(arcus) Loreiu[s] M(arci) f(ilius),
duoviṛ(i), [d(e)] d(ecurionum) s(ententia) mụrum [e]t
plumaṃ fac(iunda) coer(averunt) eideṃq(ue) pro(baverunt)    [CIL X 937]

Parco Archeologico Pompei, inventory number 34188.

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