VII .16.22 Pompeii. Casa di Fabio Rufo or
House of M Fabius Rufus.
Linked to VII .16.17, VII .16.20 and VII .16.21.
Excavated 1759, 1910, 1940, 1958-1980.
Shown as number 19 on Eschebach site plan.
Finds
Bronze
Ephebus, used as an oil lamp holder, found in dining room.
Photographed on display in Antiquarium. Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC
BY-NC-SA).
On display in exhibition in Palaestra. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
On display in exhibition in Palaestra. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
Oecus 62, detail of base of the bronze Ephebus from oecus 62. On display in exhibition in the Palaestra. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VII.16.17-22
Pompeii. April 2019. On display in Antiquarium, from House of Fabius Rufus.
Bronze
table with cupid riding a dolphin and marble top. PAP inventory number 13371.
Bronze
table with lion's feet. PAP inventory number 13108.
On
table is a bronze pitcher with face of a follower of Dionysus. PAP inventory
number 14072.
Photo
courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VII.16.17-22
Pompeii. April 2019. On display in Antiquarium, from House of Fabius Rufus.
Bronze
table with cupid riding a dolphin and marble top. PAP inventory number 13371.
Bronze
table with lion's feet. PAP inventory number 13108.
On
table is a bronze pitcher with face of a follower of Dionysus. PAP inventory
number 14072.
Fragment
of fresco on the wall at the rear, from VI.17.42, Pompeii.
Fragment
of the wall of the summer triclinium 31 decorated with a pair of facing
Sphynxes within a lush garden.
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 87228. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2018. Table in bronze with lion’s paws. Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 13108.
Pitcher (jug) in
bronze with the face of a follower of Dionysus at the base of the handle. Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 14072.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. Bronze table. SAP 13108. Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum. September 2009.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. Bronze lamp with a monkey in gladiator’s armour. Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 13958.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2018.
Bronze stool decorated with palms and lotus flowers. Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 13355. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.16.19 Pompeii. Bronze stool. SAP 3753. (Note the change of inventory number to Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 13355.)
Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum. September 2009.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2018.
Bronze stool
decorated with palms and lotus flowers. Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory
number 13355.
Pot (olla) in bronze for the boiling of foods, Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 14069. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2018. Bronze stool decorated with palms and lotus flowers.
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number
13355.
Pot (olla) in bronze for the boiling of foods.
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number
14069.
Table in bronze and marble decorated with a cupid riding a dolphin.
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 13371. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2018. Table in bronze and marble decorated with a cupid riding a dolphin.
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 13371. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2018. Detail of marble tabletop.
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 13371. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2018. Detail of base of bronze and marble table.
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 13371. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2018. Bronze and marble table, detail of bronze cupid riding a dolphin.
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 13371. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2018. Bronze and marble table, base with bronze cupid riding a dolphin.
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 13371. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2018. Bronze and marble table, detail of bronze cupid riding a dolphin.
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 13371. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.16.17-22
Pompeii. House of Fabius Rufus. April 2019. Lamp and statuette on exhibition in
Antiquarium.
Oil
lamp with Jupiter and eagle on the handle, and Jupiter, Juno and Minerva in the
central part. PAP inventory number 13962.
Bronze statuette of Mercury carrying a sack of coins. PAP inventory number 13987. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2018. Oil lamp, with Jupiter and Eagle on the handle, and Jupiter, Juno and Minerva in the central part.
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number
13962.
Bronze statuette of Mercury holding a sack of coins, Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 13987.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. December 2018. Bronze statuette of Mercury holding a sack of coins.
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 13987. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. December 2018. Bronze statuette of Mercury holding a sack of coins.
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 13987. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2018.
Oil lamp, with Jupiter and Eagle on the handle, and Jupiter, Juno and Minerva in the central part,
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 13962. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.16.17-22 Pompeii. Terracotta triple lamp with a crescent moon handle.
The handle is decorated with the head of Jupiter Ammon and an eagle. Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 13961.
Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum. September 2009.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2018.
Oil lamp decorated with leaf motifs, Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 14117. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.16.17-22 Pompeii. Stone grinding machine with reconstructed wooden handle. Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 57645.
Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum. September 2009.
VII.16.17-22
Pompeii. April 2019. Red gloss bowl produced in the Eastern Mediterranean. PAP
inventory number 14050 (left).
Red
gloss bowl of Arretine production with stamp bearing the name of the potter.
PAP inventory number 14042 (right).
Photo
courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2018.
Red-gloss bowl
produced in the eastern Mediterranean. Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory
number 14050.
Red-gloss bowl in
Arretine production with stamp bearing the name of the potter. Parco
Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 14042.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. 2018. Upper part of a bronze modus, a tool used to measure wheat, with a Greek inscription.
Secondo la carta descrittiva -
Parte superiore di un modus in bronzo, strumento
utilizzato per misurare il grano, con iscrizione in lingua greca:
“Nell’anno sesto, nel mese di Daisios
(maggio), campione del modio di Marco Tizio” e “Essendo agoranomoi Marco
Antonio Thediono e Lisa Aristeo”.
Photo courtesy of Giuseppe
Ciaramella.
Parco
Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 13601.
“Sixth year, in the month of Daisios (May), sample of the modus of Marcus Titius”,
and “While Marcus Antonius Thedionus and Lisa Aristeo were agoranomoi.”
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 13601. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 13601. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 13601. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.16.17-22
Pompeii. House of Fabius Rufus. April 2019. Marble sundial.
In
exhibition in Antiquarium. PAP inventory number 14330. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2018. Marble sundial, Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 14330. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2018. Detail of marble sundial,
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 14330. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. April 2019. Decorative bronze
fountain with a crow and two birds.
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 14142, found 1967. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2018. Decorative element of bronze fountain with crow and two birds on a branch.
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 14142, found 1967. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2018. Detail of decorative element of bronze fountain with crow and two birds on a branch.
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 14142, found 1967. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2018. Found in the area outside the House of Fabius Rufus.
Two cameo-glass panels, Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory numbers 153651 and 153652. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. October 2022. Information card on display in exhibition in Palaestra. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
On display in Antiquarium at VIII.1.4, according to the description card, these were found in room 62.
Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. October 2022.
Glass cameo panel decorating furniture and depicting Bacchus and Ariadne, on display in exhibition in Palaestra. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2018. Found in the area outside the House of Fabius Rufus.
Cameo-glass panel, with the apparition of Dionysus to the sleeping Ariadne.
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 153652. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
According to Kuivalainen this panel was found in the excavation soil outside of the House of Fabius Rufus in 1960.
It was found in fragments and restored in places.
Kuivalainen describes –
A rectangular cameo glass (25 cm high x 40 cm wide), white on a blue background, with a composition of five figures, framed by a vine and a double column.
On the left, an effeminate youth is standing with his weight on his right foot; he leans with his left arm, covered with a sleeve, on a short column, and holds a twig in his hand; his legs are covered by a himation; his right hand is raised to the top of his head, and a thyrsus with a pine cone and ribbons rests on his shoulder; his head is in ¾ profile, and wreathed with large ivy leaves and korymboi [globes holding hair], and his curls fall onto his shoulders; he looks with languid eyes to his left, where a satyr points with his right hand fingers to the left. By the satyr’s right leg hangs the tail of a nebris [fawn skin], and he holds a pedum in his left hand and on top of his shoulder; he looks alertly back towards his master; his head is depicted in profile, the ears are pointed, and the hair tousled.
On the right, a semi-recumbent female with a cloak over her legs and left arm, sleeping on stone slabs of different levels; her tilted head, in profile, rests against a column, and she supports it with a raised right hand; her hair is tied with a ribbon, and her eyes are closed.
Cupids float on both sides of the satyr; the one in the left holds a rhyton in his right hand and balances a small basket on top of his head with his left hand; the other cupid holds a torch-like object and possibly a twig. A calyx krater stands on the ground to the left, and under the female’s resting place is an oval object: a stone or a tympanon [drum].
Kuivalainen comments –
This scene is of the appearance of a youthful Bacchus to a sleeping Ariadne, in a complex setting full of details. The scene customarily takes place outdoors, and the columns may signify a sanctuary. The high-level of workmanship is shown by the different countenances, expressing different emotions ranging from alertness to languidness to drowsiness. The details of the human bodies, however, have caused difficulties for the engraver; the fingers, palms and toes are out of proportion. From the same context comes another cameo glass panel depicting Ariadne with Silenus and a maenad. Both were allegedly used as wall decorations, portraying a sequence in the myth of Bacchus and Ariadne. …………………………….
See
Kuivalainen, I., 2021. The Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus. Commentationes
Humanarum Litterarum
140. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, (H21,
P.225-227).
VII.16.17-22
Pompeii. February 2021.
Glass cameo panel
decorating furniture, a maenad is pouring wine into Ariadne’s cup while a Satyr
dances.
On display in
Antiquarium at VIII.1.4, according to the description card, these were found in
room 62.
Photo courtesy of
Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).
VII.16.17-22
Pompeii. Pompeii. October 2022.
Glass cameo panel decorating furniture, on display in exhibition in Palaestra. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2018. Found in the area outside the House of Fabius Rufus.
Cameo-glass panel, this panel possibly alluding to Ariadne’s initiation; a Maenad is pouring wine into her cup in the presence of a dancing Satyr.
Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 153651. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Rear of complex
VII.16.22/21/20/19/18/17. May 2011. Looking east to rear of complex of House of Fabius Rufus. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
VII.16.22/21/20/19, Pompeii. June 2019.
Looking east to rear of complex of House of Fabius Rufus. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.16.22/21/20/19,
Pompeii. October 2018. Looking east
to rear of complex of House of Fabius Rufus.
Foto
Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.16.22/21/20/19/18/17. Pompeii. 1964.
Looking east to rear of complex, still in the process of excavation and consolidation. 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.16.17-22 Pompeii. 1961. Wilhelmina and friends. 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.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2011.
Looking east at south end of rear of complex of House of Fabius Rufus. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2011. Looking east at windows in south end at rear. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2006.
Looking south across large garden on ground level, on the north side of other smaller lower level garden behind wall.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2011.
Looking east across garden area at rear of House of Fabius Rufus. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. 1961. Excavating the exterior west wall of the hanging garden area. 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.16.22 Pompeii. October 2018. Looking east to north end
of rear of House of Fabius Rufus.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2011. Looking east to north end of rear of House of Fabius Rufus. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
VII.16.22 Pompeii. October 2018. Looking east from rear towards
city wall.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
According to Jashemski, the gardens at the rear of the house were reached from the house by stairways cut in the city wall.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.202-4, A and D)
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2006. Garden looking towards rear of House of Fabius Rufus.
According to Jashemski, the gardens at the rear of the house were reached from the house by stairways cut in the city wall.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.202-4, A and D)
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2006.
North end of rear garden area on lower ground level, looking east towards steps from corridor 45 alongside garden.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking west, down corridor alongside garden.
South-western edge of Pompeii being excavated in 1959.
The rear of the house visible at the top of the scarp is VII.16.13, so the area of the House of Fabius Rufus would be on the left of the photo.
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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