VII.7.5 Pompeii. Casa di
Trittolemo or House of Tryptolemus
or House of the Cissonii or House of L. Calpurnius Diogenes.
Linked to VII .7.2, VII.7.4, VII .7.14 and VII .7.15.
Excavated 1859 and 1871. Bombed in 1943, restored 1946, and 2014.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Plan of VII.7.5 and VII.7.14
VII.7.5, Pompeii. May 2018.
North side of peristyle, with doorways to rooms (y), (x), (u), corridor to rear, and (q). Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. 2013.
Looking north-west across atrium (b) and peristyle (l) to cubiculum (x) and oecus (u). Photo courtesy of Davide Peluso.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. May 2018. Room (y), on left, and doorway to room (x), cubiculum, in centre. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. September 2019. Doorway to room (x),
cubiculum.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.7.5, Pompeii. May 2018. Looking through doorway to cubiculum (x) and flooring. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. September 2019. Mosaic floor in cubiculum (x).
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.7.5, Pompeii. May 2018. Mosaic floor from cubiculum (x). Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. May 2014. Cubiculum (x), mosaic floor with black and white Hellenistic rosette pattern.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 314.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. c.1930.
Cubiculum (x), looking across flooring and emblema, forming the centre for a cubiculum at the rear of the peristyle of VII.7.5.
This group belongs to the period of Hellenistic influence, though perhaps laid at a later time. (p.81)
See Blake,
M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early
Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p.81,85,89 & Pl.23, tav.1.)
VII.7.5 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking north towards doorway to cubiculum (x), on left, and into exedra (u), on right.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic
Archive. Warsher collection no. 1444.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking north towards doorway to cubiculum (x), on left, and into exedra (u), on right.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic
Archive. Warsher collection no. 865.
VII.7.5, Pompeii. May 2018.
Looking east along north portico, with threshold to doorway of exedra (u), in upper left. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. September 2019.
Exedra (u), looking north-east across flooring from north portico.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.7.5, Pompeii. May 2018. Exedra (u), opening full width onto north portico. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. September 2019.
Exedra (u), looking east towards south end of east wall, and north
portico.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. September 2019.
Exedra (u), looking west towards south end of west wall, and north
portico.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. C.1930. Looking west across flooring of portico, and threshold of exedra (u)/tablinum.
According to Blake –
The pattern on this flooring was described erroneously, as The Turreted Wall, and used in the threshold of the tablinum (?) of VII.7.5, occurring only once to my knowledge, in a pavement which is probably to be assigned to the first century AD. (p.106)
See Blake,
M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early
Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p.73 and 106 & pl.2, tav.2).
VII.7.5 Pompeii. September 2019. Exedra (u), detail of
threshold of doorway.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.7.5, Pompeii. May 2018.
Exedra (u), detail of threshold of doorway showing battlemented walls, open onto peristyle. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. 2014. Exedra (u) coloured mosaic floor threshold with castellated pattern.
VII.7.5, Pompeii. May 2018. Looking north across peristyle towards exedra (u) in centre. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. September 2019. Exedra (u), looking north.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking north towards exedra (u).
VII.7.5 Pompeii. May 2015. Looking towards north wall of exedra (u), and north-west corner. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.7.5, Pompeii. May 2018. Exedra (u), looking towards north wall and remains of fresco painting. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. May 2015.
Detail of remains of painted decoration on north wall of exedra (u). Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.7.5, Pompeii. May 2018.
Exedra (u), looking towards north wall and north-east corner, on right. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.7.5, Pompeii. May 2018.
Exedra (u), looking across flooring towards north wall and north-east corner. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. April 2019.
Exedra (u)/tablinum, looking towards north wall and north-east corner, across mosaic flooring.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Exedra (u)/tablinum, looking across flooring towards north wall.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 916.
VII.7.5
Pompeii. c.1930. Exedra (u)/tablinum, looking north across flooring.
According
to Blake –
Almost next
door to the Apollo temple, in VII.7.5, the tablinum, if such it be, has a
similar sectile centre enclosed in simple bands of mosaic. A band of yellow
tesserae serves to connect with it, in date, the threshold which employs
identical tesserae for its pattern, a textile design suggesting to the Romans a
turreted wall. The background, except
for a strip along the back wall, where some large piece of furniture possibly
protected the floor from wear, consists of coarser tesserae and probably dates
from a later period. (p.38)
In a
previous chapter we have mentioned the “turreted border” which formed the
threshold of the tablinum of VII.7.5, containing an early sectile centre.
Apparently this should be identified as a “textile pattern.” (p.73)
See Blake, M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p. 38 & p.73, & Pl.6, tav.2)
VII.7.5 Pompeii. 2014 after renovation. Exedra (u) mosaic floor with tiles in the centre in the form of cubes.
VII.7.5, Pompeii, 1978. Detail of mosaic
floor with tiles in the shape of cubes. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A.
Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See
collection page) and made available under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence
and use details.
J78f0217
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 312.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Detail of mosaic floor with tiles in the shape of cubes.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 365.
(Note: Warsher located this at VII.7, we have included it here, but there was another similar floor at VII.7.32.)
DAIR 41.718. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut,
Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
See Pernice, E.
1938. Pavimente und Figürliche Mosaiken: Die Hellenistische
Kunst in Pompeji, Band VI. Berlin: de Gruyter,
(tav. 37.4, above.)
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. October 2024. Looking west across north portico. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. December 2019.
Looking west across north portico. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VII.7.5, Pompeii. May 2018. Looking east along north portico.
On the left, north side, after the “open doorway” of the exedra, is the doorway to corridor (r) leading to the rear entrance at VII.7.14, followed by the doorway to room (q).
Ahead, on the east side, is the linking doorway to the south portico of VII.7.2. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. September 2019. Looking south-east from north
portico outside exedra (u) towards east portico.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. September 2019.
Doorway to corridor/room (r), looking north from portico towards
rear doorway at VII.7.14.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.7.5
Pompeii. c.1930.
Looking
across flooring in corridor/room (r), at the rear an ivy-leaf design enclosing
a simple geometric pattern.
See Blake,
M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early
Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p.81 & Pl.23, tav. 2).
VII.7.5 Pompeii. September 2019. Corridor/room (r), looking north
from doorway threshold across flooring.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. 2014. Room (r), mosaic floor in threshold to north portico of peristyle (l).
VII.7.5 Pompeii. 2014. Room (r), mosaic floor with geometric pattern surrounded by a border of branches of ivy.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. 2014. Room (r), detail of mosaic floor with border of branches of ivy.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. 13th September 1876. Watercolour by Luigi Bazzani.
Looking south across
mosaic flooring in corridor/room (r) leading to
peristyle (l), and north portico.
Photo
© Victoria and Albert Museum. Inventory number 1067-1886.
VII.7.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking south along corridor/room (r) leading to peristyle (l), and north portico.
VII.7.5/14 Pompeii. September 2005.
Looking west from entrance doorway at VII.7.14, along north wall and hearth or bench in kitchen area (s).
VII.7.5 Pompeii. September 2019.
Looking north-west towards flooring on north portico, doorway to exedra (u), in centre, corridor/room (r), centre right, and triclinium (q), on right.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.7.5 Pompeii, May 2018.
Looking west along north portico, with doorway to exedra (u), on left, corridor/room (r), centre, and triclinium (q), on right.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Plan of VII.7.5 and VII.7.14