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. September 2017. Looking north across rooms above the granary at VII.15.16. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north across rooms above the granary at VII.15.16.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Rooms above the granary VII.15.16, south room.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Rooms above the granary VII.15.16.
The south room, looking over rear wall to granary oven below.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Rooms above the granary at VII.15.16, the middle room.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Rooms above the granary at VII.15.16, north room.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009.
Rooms above the granary at VII.15.16. North room, with entrance to granary and room C seen on lower level.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south-west across garden area towards tablinum.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. September 2017.
Corridor leading
east towards baths’ area. Photo
courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Corridor to kitchen and baths area.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east across kitchen on north side of corridor to baths.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. September
2017.
Looking east across kitchen, on left, and corridor to baths, on right. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Kitchen, looking east.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. October 2019. Hearth against north wall in
kitchen, looking east.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Kitchen with hearth.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Kitchen, hearth, oven and remains of stairs on right to upper floor.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Kitchen, east wall. Entrance to praefurnium for the caldarium which was stoked from the kitchen.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. September 2017. Small courtyard area at top of corridor behind kitchen.
On the left are the doorways to the tepidarium, and apodyterium (exedra/lounging room). Ahead would have been the frigidarium.
Photo
courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.15.2
Pompeii. October 2019.
Looking
south from above rear of VII.15.5/4, taken from small courtyard area at top of corridor
behind kitchen.
Foto
Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Small courtyard area at top of corridor behind kitchen.
On the left are the doorways to the tepidarium, and apodyterium (exedra/lounging room). Ahead would have been the frigidarium.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway into tepidarium on left side of corridor.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Tepidarium.
This room was simply heated by warm air channelled into it from the caldarium through an opening in the common wall.
The wall decoration of the tepidarium was Third style on a black ground. The floor was paved with cocciopesto.
No further details were recorded, and now the wall decoration has faded.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. October 2019. Tepidarium, looking towards north
wall.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. October 2019. Tepidarium, looking west towards
doorway into caldarium.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Tepidarium with doorway into caldarium.
The caldarium had a hypocaust system, complete with suspensurae beneath its floor.
Regulae mammatae lined its south, west, and north walls.
The praefurnium was stoked from the kitchen, which was on the west side.
The wall decoration of the caldarium was Second style, but no further details were recorded.
The floor was paved with cocciopesto.
See Franklin, J. L., 1990. Pompeii, the Casa del Marinaio and its history. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Caldarium, west wall.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of caldarium with remains of hollow walls for hot air.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall of caldarium.
VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009.
North wall of caldarium. Remains of hollow walls for hot air and decorated hypo-caustic cocciopesto floor.
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