VIII.3.11 Pompeii. Workshop and dwelling. Casa delle Grazie, also known as the Apothecaries House.

Linked to VIII.3.12. Excavated 1817, 1838. (Strada dell Abbondanza 10).

VIII.3.11 Pompeii, on left, and VIII.3.10, on right. December 2018. Looking south to entrance doorways. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii, on left. May 2015. Looking south to entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

According to Fiorelli –

“Next to the stairs was a shop which was linked to the stairs (at VIII.3.10).

The shop was part of the house found at its rear (VIII.3.12), whose entrance doorway was on the eastern roadway.

In the shop was a storeroom and a cubiculum under the above-mentioned stairs, with the remains of various figures of Muses decorating the walls.”

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.124).

VIII.3.11 Pompeii, May 2024. Looking south-east to entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii, May 2024. Looking south-west from entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. October 2023. Looking towards entrance doorway and east wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance, east wall.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. May 2024. East wall at north end. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. May 2006. Upper east wall, in north-east corner.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii., December 2018.

Looking towards north-west corner of interior with doorway to Via dell’Abbondanza, on right.

The doorway to base of steps to upper floor in west wall is on the left.  Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. October 2023.

Doorway in west wall in north-west corner, linking workshop to stairs in VIII.3.10.

Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. December 2018.

North wall in north-west corner of interior. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii., December 2018. Detail of north wall in north-west corner of interior. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii., December 2018.

Detail of niche on north wall in north-west corner. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii, on left. May 2015. Looking towards doorways in south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. October 2023. Looking south-west across workshop-room. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. May 2015. Looking south to rear wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. October 2022. Looking south-west across shop. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. October 2023. Doorways to rooms in south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking across shop towards south wall with doorways at west end.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. May 2024. South-west corner, with doorway leading to VIII.3.12, centre left.

Doorway to a cubiculum and storeroom, on right. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. October 2022.

South-west corner, with doorway leading to VIII.3.12, centre left, and to a cubiculum and storeroom, on right. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. October 2022.

Doorway in south wall, leading into triclinium with window, and through doorway into courtyard near entrance at VIII.3.12.

Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. May 2006.

Doorway (centre) in south wall, leading into triclinium with window, and through doorway into courtyard near entrance at VIII.3.12.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. May 2006. South-west corner, with two doorways, one into a cubiculum, the other into a storeroom.

The cubiculum would have had white painted walls separated into panels by red lines.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. December 2018.

Cubiculum, south-east corner, with vaulted east wall, on left. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. December 2018.  

Looking towards painted decoration at base of vaulted west wall of cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

According to PPM – the west wall was decorated with zoccolo and middle zone of wall in white by red lines and bands.

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici. (8). Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p.393, no.14.)

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. December 2018.

Cubiculum, north-west corner. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. May 2005. West wall, with doorways.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. May 2006. Doorway in west wall, leading to steps to upper floor at VIII.3.10.

Painted street shrine of the Twelve Gods on corner of insula at VIII.3.11, in Vicolo dei Dodici Dei. December 2018.

Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

Painted street shrine of the Twelve Gods on corner of insula at VIII.3.11, in Vicolo dei 12 Dei. May 2006.

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. Painting of the 12 divinities, under the painting was a painting of two serpents (lares compitales).

See Roux, H., 1840. Herculanem et Pompei recueil général des Peintures, Bronzes, Mosaïques: Tome 5. Paris: Didot.  (Planche 11).

VIII.3.11 Pompeii. c.1819, sketch by W. Gell of the painting of the 12 Gods, with part of the painting of the two serpents.

See Gell W & Gandy, J.P: Pompeii published 1819 [Dessins publiés dans l'ouvrage de Sir William Gell et John P. Gandy, Pompeiana: the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompei, 1817-1819], pl. 54.

See book in Bibliothèque de l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art [France], collections Jacques Doucet Gell Dessins 1817-1819

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