VII .15.2 Pompeii. Casa del Marinaio or Casa
di Niobe or Casa del Gallo.
Linked to VII .15.1 and VII .15.16. Excavated c.1859 and 1871.
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VII.15.2 Pompeii. December 2007. Room on lower level behind tablinum.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. December 2007. Two rooms on lower level and garden area.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. December 2007. Rooms on lower level and garden.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. September
2017. Looking west across south portico. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. September 2017.
Detail of columns on south portico. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. December 2007. West end of south portico area at rear of tablinum.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south. Corridor
from area at rear of living rooms to west side of
VII.15.2 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south.
Room on western side of house accessed by two marble steps.
The room was built at a slightly higher level than the other ground level rooms.
This was to accommodate the ramp descending to the subterranean rooms.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. December 2007. Stairs to lower level at west end of south portico. Looking north
VII.15.2
Pompeii. 2017/2018/2019. Looking north across garden area. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. December 2007. Garden, looking north to House of Fabius Rufus, and Vesuvius at the rear.
According to Garcia y Garcia, during the bombardment of 13th September 1943 two bombs fell on this house.
One destroyed the latrine on the extreme west of the southern walkway of the portico.
The other caused the demolition of a part of the perimeter wall of the garden on the north-west side of the house.
The changes to the area also caused the fall of the columns on the south portico.
The collection of amphorae, provenanced from this house, that were stored in the garden were mostly destroyed.
See Garcia y
Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.126)
VII.15.2 Pompeii. December 2007. Garden area, looking east.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. December 2007. Garden area, looking east.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. December 2007. Steps to upper floor, from garden.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. December 2007. Rooms on lower level.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. December 2007. Area to rear of tablinum, looking east. Dining room on east side of tablinum is in centre.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. October 2019. Looking from south portico, into
dining room on east side of tablinum.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. September 2017.
Looking
south from area at rear of tablinum, into dining room on east side of tablinum.
Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south across dining room on east side of tablinum.
According to PPM –
The zoccolo would have been black and was subdivided into panels which were crossed horizontally by “carpet borders” separated by compartments with painted plants.
The middle area of the walls would have been yellow with panels with “carpet borders” separated by narrow architectural ends.
See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. VII. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 739 no. 69.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. Drawings by Geremia Discanno, of paintings seen in triclinium on east side of tablinum.
Top, figure of left, from oecus on west side of tablinum.
Top, female figure on right, from one of the walls of triclinium on east side of tablinum.
Lower, fragment of painting of Mars and Venus, from one of the walls of triclinium on east side of tablinum.
Sogliano described this painting as “very faded and destroyed on the left side”.
See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli:
Giannini, p.34, no.137.
See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza
Archeologica (DAIR), 1872, p.239,
See Fiorelli, Scav.di Pompei, p.116, n.100, and
Descrizione Pompei, p.306.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 787.
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VII.15.2 Pompeii. October 2019. Area to rear of tablinum,
looking north-east.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Area to rear of tablinum, looking north-east.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Area to rear of tablinum, looking north-east.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1453.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. December 2007. Area to rear of tablinum, looking east towards kitchen and baths area.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. October 2019. Looking east to corridor leading to kitchen and baths area.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east to corridor leading to kitchen and baths area.
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