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. Room 6, ala on west side of atrium.

VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, mosaic floor of ala. 

VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, west wall of ala. 

VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, painted figure on upper west wall of ala.

VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, west wall of ala. Wall painting of Apollo and Daphne. 

On the left is Apollo, on the right Daphne just as she begins to change into a laurel tree.

VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. Pre-1839. Drawing by La Volpe showing Apollo and Daphne.

See Real Museo Borbonico, Vol. XII, 1839, Tav. XXXIII.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, (p.57, no.211.)

VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, painted figure on south end of the upper west wall of the ala.

VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, painted decoration on south end of west wall of ala.

VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, painted figure on north end of the upper west wall of the ala.

VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, painted decoration on north end of west wall of ala.

VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, west wall and south-west corner.

Painted as imitation marble veneer, whereas the lararium, on the right, was reported as being faced with real marble.

VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, lararium against west wall.

On the front of the base there is an impression of a round plaque in the plaster. 

This must have once decorated it.

VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. pre-1937-39. Room 6, lararium against west wall.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1904.

VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Niche of lararium.

According to Boyce, this was a rectangular niche, the sides of which were reported to have been originally covered with marble.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.66)

VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Base of lararium, and mosaic floor decoration.

VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, ala. Emblema in mosaic floor decoration.

VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. c.1930. Room 6, emblema in centre of flooring of left ala.

See Blake, M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p.106, ftn 1, 118, & Pl.42, tav.4).

VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, south wall of ala. 

VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, painted figure on upper south wall of ala.

VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, north wall of ala. 

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