VII.14.9 Pompeii. Casa di V.
Popidius or Casa delle Colombe.
Haus des
Herzogs von Sachsen.
Excavated 1838. (Strada dell’Abbondanza 37).
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Plan
VII.14.9 Pompeii.
December 2005. Entrance on Via dell’Abbondanza.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance doorway, looking north.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance marble threshold. Looking south from fauces.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance doorway, looking north along entrance corridor.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. December 2018. Room 1,
looking north across impluvium in atrium. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. Room 1, atrium and impluvium, looking north.
Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. 1957. Looking north across atrium. 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.
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VII.14.9 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking north-west across impluvium in atrium.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 842.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, looking north across impluvium.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, looking north-west across impluvium in atrium.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. October 2022.
Room 1, puteal near impluvium in atrium. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, looking north along west side of atrium, with doorways to rooms 2, 3 and 4.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 2, cubiculum, looking towards north wall.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, cubiculum.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, white marble door sill of cubiculum.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 3, ala, looking north-west.
According to Liselotte Eschebach, in the atrium left in front of the left ala was an arca or money chest.
See Eschebach,
L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und
Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau, 339.
According to Espen B. Andersson [email]:
VII.14.9
Here money was found in “a so-called terracotta carousel”. I have no clear idea what object this is, maybe a round very low terracotta vase with a lid? The museum in Naples is the only place one could ask:
P.A.H. Vol. II,
page 357
“10 Luglio 1838 -
Nel caricarsi altra poca terra, che resto nella stanza a destra il cortile
della casa disterranda, si è rinvenuto un così detto carosello di terracotta in
moltissimi pezzi,
dentro al quale
37 monete di argento, e 66 di bronzo.”
This translates to:
“July 10, 1838 - While removing a little more earth, which remained in the room to the right of the courtyard of the house being excavated, a so-called terracotta carousel in many pieces was found, inside which were 37 silver coins and 66 bronze ones.”
The addenda in PAH vol. III p. 140 says –
“10 Luglio 1838 -
Nella stanza a destra il cortile di detta abitazione si è raccolto. Bronzo. N.
66 monete di diverso modulo, e n. 37 di argento di piccolo modulo, tutte
riposte in on vasetto rotto di terracotta, detto carosello.”
This translates to:
“July 10, 1838 -
In the room to the right of the courtyard of said dwelling was collected.
Bronze. No. 66 coins of different denominations, and no. 37 silver coins of
small denominations, all placed in a broken earthenware pot/jar, called a carousel.”
However, there was found an iron money chest with lock preserved:
P.A.H. vol. II,
page 385.
24 Ottobre - Si è
lavorato nella solita casa, e a sinistra della detta nel cortile si è rinvenuto.
Ferro. Una bella
gran cassa di mascatura col suo corrente, il tutto ben conservato.
Argento. Una
moneta.
This translates to:
“October 24 -
Work was carried out in the usual house, and to the left of the house in the
courtyard was found:-
Iron. A beautiful large chest with lock with its stringer, all well preserved.
Silver. One coin.”
Please note that the word “mascatura” means lock. “Mascatura” is ‘Napolitano’ dialect.
(In Italian the word ‘serratura’ is mostly used for lock, but ‘mascatura’ is still in daily use.)
In this house G. Fiorelli does not mention any money chest. He deals with the house in Descrizione di Pompei, 1875, pages 302-303.
Our thanks to Espen B. Andersson for his help with our interest in money chests and bases.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 3, west wall and south-west corner of ala.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 3, west wall and north-west corner of ala.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. October 2022.
Room 4, doorway in north wall of ala, looking across atrium from entrance corridor.
Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway into room 4, doorway in north wall of room 3, ala.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, east wall of oecus, with doorway from tablinum.
VII.14.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, west wall of oecus.