VII.2.51 Pompeii. House of Suettii, Potitus and Elainus.

Excavated 1862, 1865 and 1867.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking east on Via degli Augustali. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking west on Via degli Augustali. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. March 2019. Looking west towards entrance doorway.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.2.51 Pompeii, May 2018. Entrance doorway, looking west. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.2.51 Pompeii, March 2019. Looking east towards entrance doorway.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.2.51 Pompeii, March 2019. Detail of front façade on west side of entrance doorway.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.2.51 Pompeii, May 2018. Detail from front façade on west side of entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.2.51 Pompeii, March 2019. East side of front façade, with small window.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.2.51 Pompeii, May 2018. Detail of window on east side of entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.2.51 Pompeii, March 2019. Front façade on east side of entrance doorway.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2004. Entrance with square tufa capitals.

Two electoral programma were found on the wall bordering the entrance.

Della Corte said in 1964, these were still partly readable.  

Suettium aed. ovf. Potitus cliens r(ogat)     [CIL IV 593]

Suettios Certum II vir i. d. (et) Verum aed. (et) Celsum, (huius)

        collegam, quorum  innocentiam probastis, rog(ate).

                       Elainus dissign(ator) rog(at)      [CIL IV 597]

See Della Corte, M., 1965.  Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.181)

According to Fiorelli, it was written as

SVETTIOS . CERTVM . II . VIR . I . D

VERVM . AED . CELSVM . COLLEGAM . ROG

QVORVM . INNOCENTIAM

              PROBASTIS

 ELAINVS . DISSIGN . ROG         [CIL IV 597]

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p. 85)

VII.2.51 Pompeii. 1964. Entrance doorway, looking west. 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.2.51 Pompeii but shown as VII.3.51 on photo. Pre-1937-39. Looking west to entrance doorway.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1533.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. March 2019. Detail of exterior front façade on east of entrance between VII.2.51 and 52, on right

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. March 2019.

Waste down-pipe in exterior wall between VII.2.51 and 52, on right.

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VII.2.51 Pompeii. 1966.

Waste down-pipe in exterior wall between VII.2.51 and 52. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

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VII.2.51 Pompeii. 1964. Entrance doorway, looking east. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

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VII.2.51 Pompeii. 1964.

Entrance doorway, looking north-east towards the east wall. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

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VII.2.51 Pompeii. 1959.

Entrance doorway, looking north-east towards the east wall. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

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VII.2.51 but shown as VII.3.51 on photo. Pre-1937-39.

Looking east along Via degli Augustali, towards entrance doorway, on left, followed by VII.2.52 and 53.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1532.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. c.1908. Watercolour by Luigi Bazzani.

Looking east along Via degli Augustali, towards entrance doorway, on left, followed by VII.2.52 and 53.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inv. no. 139433.

VII.2.51 Pompeii, March 2019. East wall of entrance corridor.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2004. East wall of entrance corridor.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. March 2019. Upper east wall of entrance corridor.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. March 2018. Upper west wall of entrance corridor, looking north towards atrium.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking north into atrium.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2005. Travertine cube shaped puteal with deep rope mark from the atrium.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking south along entrance corridor.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2005. Painted plaster on east wall of entrance corridor.

According to Leach, this painted plaster is the only surviving trace of decoration.

These were a number of red and yellow 1st style blocks in the entranceway.

See Leach, E.W: The Social Life of Painting in Ancient Rome and on the Bay of Naples.

According to PPM, these were red, yellow and green.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking south across atrium to front entrance.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2005. South-west corner of the atrium with remains of a hearth.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2004. Room in south-west corner of atrium with painted plaster.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2005. Room in south-west corner of atrium with painted plaster.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2005. Room in south-west corner of atrium with painted plaster.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2005. West side of the atrium.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2004. North-west corner of atrium.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking north across atrium to corridor, tablinum and triclinium doorways.

VII.2.51 Pompeii, May 2018. Looking across atrium, from entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2005. Atrium.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2005. East side of the atrium.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2005. West wall of viridarium with half column and niche.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2004. Niche in west wall of viridarium with half column at side.

According to Boyce, this square niche in the west wall of the pseudo-peristyle had a projecting cornice beneath it.

Its inside walls were coated with red stucco.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p. 63 no. 256).

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2005.

Looking east across viridarium at exedra in north-east corner and corridor leading to kitchen and oven.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking east across viridarium.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2005. Viridarium with remains of columns.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2005. Viridarium. Mill used as a puteal?

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2005.

South-east corner of viridarium with masonry bench and door to corridor leading to kitchen and oven.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2004. Oven in kitchen.

VII.2.51 Pompeii. 1966. Oven in kitchen.  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.2.51 Pompeii. December 2004. Latrine in kitchen?

VII.2.51 Pompeii. December 2004.  Kitchen.