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. March 2009. Garden area. Cistern at east end of portico between pillars.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. Garden area, looking north-east from south portico.
Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking south-west from garden area. Towards south portico and doorways to rooms 13 and 12.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 062.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north at east end of garden area.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking north- west across garden area, towards bath suite.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, 16 and 17, looking east from room 15.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 16, corridor leading east to kitchen area.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 16, kitchen with hearth.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. December 2004. Room 16, kitchen.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 16, kitchen.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south into room 17, through doorway in north wall, from room 15.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, looking east across oecus.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, doorway to Oecus in east wall of atrium.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17 and room 18, doorways in east wall of atrium.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, east wall of cubiculum.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, north wall and north-west corner of cubiculum.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, south wall and south west corner of cubiculum.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. Pre-1849. Painting by Zahn of various candelabra found in this house.
Described by Zahn as –
“Found in a house in the Strada de Mercadanti excavated in the presence of S.H. des Herzogs Bernhard von Sachsen Weimar on 8th June 1838”.
See Zahn W., 1849. Ornamente aller klassischen
Kunst-Epochen nach den Originalen in ihren eigenthümlichen Farben. Berlin:
Reimer, Taf. 48.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. Fiorelli, PAH II, May 1838 – 19th June 1838.
This records the visit of Duke Bernhard von Sachsen Weimar
on 8th June 1838.
See Fiorelli G.,
1862. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia,
Vol. 2: 1819 - 1860, Naples, p. 356.
VII.14.9 Pompeii.
Fiorelli, PAH vol. II,
20th June 1838 – 23rd July 1838.
See Fiorelli G.,
1862. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia,
Vol. 2: 1819 - 1860, Naples, p. 357.