VII.3.27 Pompeii. Steps to upper floor.

Linked to VII.3.26 and VII.3.28. Excavated 1868.

VII.3.27 Pompeii. November 2024.

Looking east from VII.3.28 along front façade, with doorway to steps at VII.3.27, and window at VII.3.26.

Photo courtesy of Annette Haug.

VII.3.28 and VII.3.27 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking east.

VII.3.27 Pompeii, on left. October 2017. Looking north-west towards entrance, on north side of Vicolo del Panettiere.

VII.3.26 was the doorway, now blocked, with a barred window, centre left.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.3.27 Pompeii. November 2024. Steps to upper floor. Photo courtesy of Annette Haug.

VII.3.27 Pompeii. December 2005. Steps to upper floor.

VII.3.27 Pompeii. May 2006. Steps.

According to Della Corte, the following graffito inscription was found to the left of the stairs:

Euplia  hic

cum  hominibus  bellis

M   M         [CIL IV 2310 b]

See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.149)

According to Varone, this translated as “Euplia was here with thousands of good-looking men”.

In the third line the M M, (two thousand), presumably referred to any number of thousands of good-looking men!

See Varone, A., 2002. Erotica Pompeiana: Love Inscriptions on the Walls of Pompeii, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider. (p.71)

On the pilaster to the right of the stairs, was written:

Capellam

II vir(um) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis)

Phoebu[s f]acit    [CIL IV 2949]

See, Della Corte, above.

VII.3.27 Pompeii. November 2024.

Steps to upper floor, with doorway into VII.3.28 in west wall. Photo courtesy of Annette Haug.

VII.3.27 Pompeii. May 2006. Steps.

VII.3.27 Pompeii. December 2005. Steps.