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. c.1889? Watercolour by Luigi Bazzani, looking south-west across peristyle garden.

Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum. Inventory number 1429-1901.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2015. Looking towards south-west corner and west wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Peristyle, south-west corner.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2015. Peristyle, looking towards south end of west wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2005. Peristyle, upper west wall.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Peristyle, west wall.                 

Due to the explosion from a bomb which fell in 1943, the west wall suffered from the destruction and the partial fall of the plaster from the large painting.

The figure of Galatea in the centre of the lower zone was definitely destroyed.

See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.98, fig 218)

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Peristyle, detail of west wall.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2015. Peristyle, detail of stucco on upper west wall at south end. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

In the extreme upper south end are the remains of a painting showing a Nilotic scene of a crocodile and pigmies in a boat.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. 12th September 1876.

Watercolour by Luigi Bazzani from peristyle. Detail of stucco on upper west wall at south end, on right.

Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum. Inventory number 2046-1900.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Peristyle, stucco on west wall. 

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2015.

Peristyle, remains of upper part of painting of Polyphemus and Galatea, from south end of west wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Peristyle, remains of upper part of painting of Polyphemus and Galatea, from south end of west wall

VI.4.48 Pompeii. W.24. Drawing of wall painting of Polyphemus and Galatea, which would have been seen on the south end of the west wall.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, (1043).

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

See Zahn, W., 1852. Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: III. Berlin: Reimer, (pl.48, pre-October 1852).

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2015. Peristyle pool, looking west. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Peristyle, pool.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2015. Peristyle, looking towards north end of west wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2015. Peristyle, upper north end of west wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1835, of a painting copied from a wall in the peristyle.

The scene from the upper north end of west wall showed a sacred landscape, edged with a red border, but is now faded and lost.

Cows, a priestess making an offering in front of a tholos, a statue of Apollo, and a shepherd with goats would have been seen.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1555).

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 591.

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VII.4.48 Pompeii. 1834.  Drawing by Zahn of painting found on a wall on the right side of the peristyle at the rear.

It represents a historical landscape, with buildings, sacrifices, etc.

Most of the buildings are reddish: the small temple in the foreground is white with reddish shadows and yellow decorations; the figure of the woman occupied with the sacrifice has a purple drapery.

See Zahn, W., 1842-44. Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: II. Berlin: Reimer, taf. 60.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2015. Peristyle, detail of stucco at north end of west wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2015. Peristyle, looking towards north end of west wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2015. Peristyle, stucco on north end of west wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Peristyle, stucco on west wall.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2015. Peristyle, looking towards north-west corner. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2015. Peristyle, north-west corner and north side. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Peristyle, looking west along north side.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Peristyle, north side, looking west.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Peristyle with lead pipe going to cistern.

VII.4.48 Pompeii. Paintings, perhaps from this house, but location unknown.

DAIR 83.139. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

Wrongly identified as from VII.4.48 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. (We think this may be a wall in our room 6 in VII.3.30).

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1814

(Our thanks to Pim Allison for saying she was 99% certain that this was not from VII.4.48.)

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