VII.1.47 Pompeii. Domus Vedi Sirici or House of Siricus

or House of Vedius Siricus and Vedius Nummianus

VII.1.25 Pompeii. Casa dei Principi di Russia, second entrance to VII.1.47

VII.1.46 Third entrance linked to VII.1.25 and VII.1.47

Combined Plan

Please note that the numbers used for the rooms on pompeiiinpictures are based on the combined plan for VII.1.25 and VII.1.47 in PPM.

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. VI. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 228.

This plan is to help you accurately locate the rooms shown in the photographs of this house.

Please be aware that the room numbers shown may differ from any other plans or records both published and unpublished.

Other plans

Please note however that the numbers used for the rooms on pompeiiinpictures are based on the combined plan for VII.1.25, VII.1.47 and VII.1.46 shown above.

VII.1.47 Pompeii. 1854 plan of the house, based on Niccolini.

Niccolini describes these rooms as:

1:  Vicolo delle Terme

2:  VII.1.47 entrance fauces closed by two wooden doors with many ornate bronze studs and an iron lock.

3:  Cella decorated with white walls with red lines and candelabra, garlands and architecture

4:  Cubiculum with two beds and inscriptions V. FEB RED [CIL IV 2302] and PRIMVS [CIL IV 2303]

5:  Large room with two doors one to a wooden staircase to the upper floor

6:  Atrium with marble impluvium

7:  Exedra

8:  Fauces or corridor linking to VII.1.25 [Strada Stabiana Casa no. 25]

9:  Triclinium Fenestratum with painting of Aeneas

10: Tablinum where SIRICI seal and gold ring were found

11: Cella with blocked door that had been reused for shelving

12: Corridor linking to garden of VII.1.25 [Strada Stabiana Casa no. 25]

13: Small cella

14: Large room

15: Cubiculum with remains of a painting of a seated, bearded poet wearing a crown of laurels

16: Kitchen

17: Vestibule

18: Rustic cella

See Niccolini F, 1854. Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei: Volume Primo. Napoli. Casa di Sirico, pp. 1-5, Tav I.

VII.1.25 Pompeii. 1854 drawing by Giuseppe Abbate of plan and ornamental details from Strada Stabiana Casa No. 57.

See Niccolini F, 1854. Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei: Volume Primo. Napoli. Strada Stabiana Casa No. 57, Tav. I.

Niccolini describes these items and rooms as:

1:  VII.1.25 entrance fauces

2:  Shop

3:  Tuscanic atrium

4:  Room with holes in wall where 4 skeletons were found

5:  Room with rough painting of serpents in which a fifth skeleton was found in a tunnel through the wall

6:  Unadorned and rough room with traces of a door in the threshold

7:  Ala with various paintings

8:  Unadorned and rough room with traces of a door in the threshold

9:  Cubiculum with various paintings

10: Peristyle

11: Triclinium

12: Exedra/Tablinum

13: Cubiculum

14: Second peristyle on a different level

15: Cellarium

16: Kitchen

17: Reconstruction of roof tiles now in the museum

18: Roof tile to give light

19: Roof tile to give light

20: Tile from angle of roof

21: Tile from angle of roof

22: Elegant antefissa

23: Elegant antefissa

24: Table from the atrium

25: Painting from the side of the door of the exedra possibly Alcmaeon killing his mother Eriphyle.