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VII.6.33 Pompeii. Large shop. Excavated 1868, 1910. Bombed in 1943.

 

According to Garcia y Garcia Region VII, Insula VI was one of the insulae most devastated over the years since its excavation.

He calls it the “Cinderella” of Pompeii. Between the years 1759 and 1762 it was vandalised and stripped by the Bourbons, then re-interred.

Then came the slow and non-systematic uncovering again before the final destruction in September 1943.

The area was ignored and abandoned during the years following the war, which reduced the insula to a heap of bricks and masonry.

See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.102).

 

According to Fiorelli,

This was a shop with a wooden threshold, a room at the rear, and a small repository under the previous stairway.

(Bottega con soglia di legno, una cella nel fondo, ed un piccolo repositorio nel subscalare precedente.)

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.160).

 

VII.6.33, Pompeii. December 2018. Looking north-west towards shop entrance. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VII.6.33 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking north-west towards shop entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

 

VII.6.33 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north across shop-room towards the rear room.

VII.6.33 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north across shop-room towards the rear room.

 

VII.6.33, Pompeii. December 2018. Looking towards niche in west wall of shop-room. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VII.6.33 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking towards niche in west wall of shop-room. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

 

VII.6.33 Pompeii. September 2005. West wall of shop.According to Boyce, in the west wall of the shop-room is an arched niche with a projecting floor.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p. 67, no.33)

VII.6.33 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking towards niche in west wall of shop-room. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

According to Boyce –

in the west wall of the shop-room was an arched niche with a projecting floor (h.0.35, w.0.35, d.0.22, h. above floor 1.80).

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p. 67, no.293)

 

VII.6.33 Pompeii. October 2017. 
Looking south from rear room towards entrance onto Vicolo dei Soprastanti, and opposite to VII.7.18.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.6.33 Pompeii. October 2017.

Looking south from rear room towards entrance onto Vicolo dei Soprastanti, and opposite to VII.7.18.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

 

 

 

 

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