VII.4.48 Pompeii. Casa della Caccia Antica or House of the Ancient Hunt

or House of the Hunt or House of the Wild Boar.

Linked to VII.4.43.

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VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 12, exedra. 

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 12, south wall with window to peristyle garden room, and south-west corner.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 12, north wall and north-west corner of exedra.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. c.1834. Painting by Zahn of a flying group perhaps representing Bacchus and Ariadne, or else Baccantes.

According to Zahn, this was found on the north wall of the exedra.

On the west wall would have been seen another flying group, counterpart to the above.

See Zahn, W., 1842-44. Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: II. Berlin: Reimer, taf. 87, and plan of house on pl.80 for position of “f” and “g”.)

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 12, east wall of exedra.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 13, ala on west side of atrium.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2015. Room 13, south wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 13, detail from south wall of ala.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2015. Room 13, looking towards west wall of ala. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 13, west wall of ala.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2015. Room 13, detail from upper west wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007.

Room 13, ala. Detail of wall painting on upper west wall, Mercury with caduceus, hat and winged sandals.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. W.21. Drawing of painting from upper west wall, showing a sitting Mercury.

See Real Museo Borbonico, XII, Tav 6.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. With kind permission of DAI Rome, whose copyright it remains.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. Pre-1846. Room 13, painting of west wall, by Raoul Rochette.

See Raoul-Rochette M., 1846. Choix de Peintures de Pompei. Paris : L’Imprimerie Royale, (pl.12).

According to Zahn, in the centre of the wall was a painting of Ulysses discovering Achilles.

See Zahn, W., 1842-44. Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: II. Berlin: Reimer, (pl.80 for plan, however note that his plan shows the room next to the west ala (our room 14) as being empty of paintings, whereas this is the room that has the paintings of Leda, Danae and Venus, which he has shown as being in the next cubiculum (our room 15) in the north-west corner of the atrium, which is in fact empty of decorations).

VII.4.48 Pompeii. Room 13, drawing of west wall.

See Niccolini F, 1890. Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei: Volume Terzo. Napoli. Tav. XX.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 13, west wall of ala. 

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2015. Room 13, central painting from west wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 13, remains of central wall painting on west wall of ala.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2015. Room 13, painted zoccolo on west wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 13, ala, detail of wall painting on south end.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2015. Room 13, detail from painted zoccolo on west wall at north end. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 13, ala, detail of wall painting at north end of west wall.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2015. Room 13, north-west corner and north wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 13, detail from north wall of ala.

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