VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. Casa dei
Capitelli colorati or Casa di Arianna
or House of Ariadne or House of the Coloured Capitals.
Linked to VII.4.32, VII.4.33 and VII.4.51. Excavated 1822, 1832 and 1846.
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VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorways to rooms 30 and 31.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 30, east wall.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 30, threshold or sill.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 31.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 31, east wall.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 31, north wall.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 31, wall painting of Theseus abandoning Ariadne.
Theseus is looking at the sleeping Ariadne who is on the beach on a bed of seaweed.
His foot is on the plank of the ship that will take him to Athens.
See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1217).
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9052.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. W.37 Room 31, drawing of wall painting of Theseus and Ariadne.
See Real Museo Borbonico, XI, taf 34.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9052.
Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii.
Room 31, north wall, drawing by Abbate of wall painting of Theseus and Ariadne.
See Niccolini F, 1854. Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei: Volume Primo. Napoli, (Casa dei Capitelli Colorati, Tav. III).
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 31, south wall.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 31, detail of mosaic floor.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. c.1930. Room 31, detail of central emblema showing a
rosette.
See Blake,
M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early
Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p. 106, 118, & pl.42, tav.3).
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. 13th October 1849.
Room 31, detail of central emblema (top),
drawing by Laurits
Albert Winstrup.
Photo
© Danmarks Kunstbibliotek, inventory number ark_6113.
(Note:
the threshold (lower photo) seems to be entitled “In the house 1 Strada di Mercurio”.)
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 31, detail of mosaic floor.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009.
Looking into room 12, through the window in the south-east corner of the middle peristyle.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Fish pool in the centre of the middle peristyle. Looking north.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Middle peristyle, south-east corner.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Middle peristyle, south-west corner.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Middle peristyle, looking north-east.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Middle peristyle, marble puteal.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Cistern mouth.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Gutter around east side of middle peristyle.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Middle peristyle, west side of fish pool.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Middle peristyle. West side of fish pool with amphora inserted in pool walls for fishes to shelter and to breed.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Middle peristyle, remains of blue walls in the fish pool.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Middle peristyle, remains of blue walls in the fish pool.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Middle peristyle showing edge of portico floor, looking east.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Middle peristyle, showing remains of columns and water-spouts.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Middle peristyle, gutter rainwater spout.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south-west across middle peristyle.
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