VII.14.9
Pompeii. Casa di V. Popidius or Casa delle Colombe.
Haus des Herzogs von Sachsen.
Excavated 1838. (Strada dell’Abbondanza 37).
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VII.14.9 Pompeii. December 2005. Room 10, west wall of bath suite.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. December 2005. Room 10, north-west corner of bath suite.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, north wall of bath suite.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. December 2005. Room 10, north wall of bath suite.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. December 2005. Room 10, east wall of bath suite.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. December 2005. Room 10, east wall of bath suite, with window to garden.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. 1870. Room 10. Drawing of skeleton found at the rear of the house in an arched room with a small window.
See Breton, Ernest. 1870. Pompeia, Guide de visite a Pompei, 3rd ed. Paris, Guerin. (p. 456, plate 101).
According to Scotti –
House of the Skeleton, Excavated 1863. Reg.VII, Ins.XIV – Street of Abundance – House no. 9.
“This house presents little of interest, excepting that a skeleton was found in it and left where it was discovered. At the time it was excavated, the means for producing casts in plaster were not yet known. The room in which it was found is supposed to have been used as a dormitory for servants, and the contracted position of the bones, clearly shows the agony endured before death. Visitors may see it by looking through the window, which is on the left-hand side of the garden belonging to the house”.
See Scotti, N. (1907). Three hours in Pompeii. (p.97).
VII.14.9 Pompeii. December 2004. Room 10, ceiling of bath suite.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. December 2005. Room 10, south wall, with doorway to room 9, and filled-in niche, on left.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. December 2005. Room 10, filled-in niche on south wall. The same niche as in north wall of room 9, but the other side.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. December 2005. Room 10, south wall with doorway from room 10 into room 9, with corridor room 6, ahead.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east across south portico, to rooms 11, 12 and 13.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009.
Room 11, looking south along corridor to atrium, with doorway in east wall to room 12.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 12, from south portico.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, south wall.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, doorway threshold.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 13, in south portico.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, looking south across triclinium.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. Room 13, part of east wall of triclinium.
Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1841, showing decoration of a wall found at the end of 1840.
The central painting (seen on the left), showing the head of a Maenad looking out between foliage and bunches of grapes, was part of III Style decoration of this room.
The painting was detached and sent to Naples Museum (inv.no. 9798) at the end of March 1841 (PAH, II, p.394).
See Helbig, W.,
1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv
verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, (383).
Now in Naples
Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 767.
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VII.14.9 Pompeii. 2016/2017. Room 13, central painting
from east wall of triclinium.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9798. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VII.14.9 Pompeii.
Room 13, east wall of triclinium. The central painting showing the head of a Maenad looking out between foliage and bunches of grapes
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9798.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, looking north across triclinium to garden area.