VII.2.16 Pompeii. House of Gavius Rufus or Casa di Teseo

or House of the Seven Skeletons.

Excavated 1867.

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VII.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. South portico, with doorways to rooms 18 and 19.

VII.2.16 Pompeii. October 2019. Room 18, looking south through doorway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, small room or cubiculum. Looking south.

VII.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, small room. Upper east wall and south-east corner.

VII.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, small room. Upper east wall in north-east corner.

VII.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 19, cubiculum.

VII.2.16 Pompeii. October 2019. Room 19, looking south through doorway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 19, cubiculum. Looking south.

VII.2.16 Pompeii. October 2019. Room 19, looking towards east wall with doorway into room 18.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north along west portico.

VII.2.16 Pompeii. c.1930.

Flooring of portico in peristyle showing a field of crosses together with a meander border.

See Blake, M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p.28, ftn 1, & Pl.4, fig.2)

VII.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north-east across peristyle garden from west portico.

VII.2.16 Pompeii. October 2019. Looking north across pool from south portico.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.2.16 Pompeii. October 2019. Looking north across pool in peristyle towards atrium and entrance doorway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.2.16 Pompeii. 1977.

Looking north across pool in peristyle towards atrium and entrance doorway. 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.2.16 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39.

Looking north-west across pool in peristyle towards lararium niche in west wall.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 848.

VII.2.16 Pompeii. Pre-1942.

Looking north-west across pool in peristyle towards lararium niche in west wall.

See Warscher, T. 1942. Catalogo illustrato degli affreschi del Museo Nazionale di Napoli. Sala LXXX. Vol.2. Rome, Swedish Institute.

VII.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east across small pool with marble rim in peristyle garden. 

VII.2.16 Pompeii. 1977. Looking north-east across pool in peristyle. 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.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Cistern mouth in peristyle garden.

VII.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009.

Lararium niche in west wall of portico, according to Fiorelli, originally with doors.

VII.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Lararium niche in west wall of portico.

VII.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Detail of rear wall of lararium niche.

VII.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Upper south-west corner of lararium niche in west wall of portico.

VII.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Decorative floor in lararium niche in west wall of portico.

According to Boyce, along the west portico there were two large niches, one with wooden doors, the other recess for two large cupboards.

On the ground before the one with wooden doors, were found the following bronze statuettes:

Fortuna wearing a turreted crown and holding a cornucopia and rudder.

Minerva wearing a helmet and holding a spear and patera.

Apollo with quiver on his shoulder holding a laurel branch and patera.

A wreathed Lar, standing on a base of lead.

The bust of a female figure from a herm.

Also found were other objects, among them gold earrings, a bronze bracelet, 373 pieces of coral and a small amphora of glass.

There seemed to be a discrepancy as to the actual find spot, as Boyce remarked that on page 19 of the Giorn. Scavi, this was given as within the niche fitted with the wooden doors.

On page 26, it says found on the ground before it.  Fiorelli agreed with them being found on the ground before the niche.

Giorn. Scavi, N. S., I, 1868, pp.19, 26.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p. 62, no. 251)

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p. 81)

VII.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009.

North-west corner of peristyle, and site of recess for two large cupboards.

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