VIII.2.29 Pompeii. House of Severus. Linked to VIII.2.30.
Excavated 1767, 1883, 1928.
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VIII.2.29
Pompeii, in centre. December 2018.
Looking
east to entrance doorway at rear of fountain on Via della Regina. Photo
courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.6.1 Pompeii, on left. October 2020.
Via della Regina, looking east in the year of the pandemic, with VIII.2.29 on right.
Photo courtesy of
Klaus Heese.
VIII.6.1 Pompeii, on left. December 2005. Via della Regina, looking east. VIII.2.29 on right.
VIII.2.29, on left. April
2022. Looking west across fountain in Via della Regina. Photo courtesy of
Giuseppe Ciaramella.
Fountain at VIII.2.29 Pompeii. October 2020. Looking west. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Fountain at VIII.2.29 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking west.
VIII.2.29, in
centre, Pompeii. March 2018. Looking
east along front façade behind fountain, with VIII.2.30 towards the left.
Foto
Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VIII.2.29, Pompeii. October 2023. Looking east towards entrance
doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.2.29, Pompeii. May 2024. Entrance
doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.2.29 Pompeii. September 2005. East side of entrance doorway.
VIII.2.29 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking west along
front façade towards east side of entrance doorway, on right.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VIII.2.29 Pompeii. March 2018.
Looking
south to front wall between VIII.2.30, on left, and VIII.2.29, on right.
Foto
Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VIII.2.29 Pompeii. March 2018.
Looking south to detail of mask/face on
front wall on east side of entrance doorway, (see also VII.2.30 for more
details of walls)
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269
DÉCOR.
VIII.2.29 Pompeii. March 2018.
Looking
south to remains of mask/face on front wall on east side of entrance doorway,
(see also VII.2.30 for more details of walls)
Foto
Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VIII.2.29 Pompeii. March 2018.
Looking
south to detail of remains of mask/face on front wall on east side of entrance
doorway, (see also VII.2.30 for more details of walls)
Foto
Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VIII.2.29 Pompeii. March 2019. Looking south towards entrance
doorway.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VIII.2.29 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking south from entrance doorway.
VIII.2.29 Pompeii. October 2023.
Looking south along entrance corridor
towards west side of impluvium in atrium.
Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.2.29 Pompeii. May 2024. Looking south
towards atrium from entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.2.29
Pompeii. 2016/2017
Looking south along
entrance corridor towards atrium. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe
Ciaramella.
VIII.2.29
Pompeii. December 2018. Looking south to atrium from entrance corridor. Photo
courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.2.29
Pompeii. September 2005. Mosaic in entrance corridor.
VIII.2.29 Pompeii. September 2011. Looking north along entrance corridor.
VIII.2.29 Pompeii. C.1930. Looking north along entrance corridor from atrium.
See Blake, M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p.65 & Pl.14, tav. 3)
VIII.2.29 Pompeii. October 2020.
Looking south across impluvium in atrium towards tablinum, from entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.2.29 Pompeii. October 2023. Looking south from impluvium towards
tablinum. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.2.29 Pompeii. October 2023. South-west corner of tablinum. Photo
courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.2.29 Pompeii. October 2023.
Looking towards west
side of impluvium in atrium. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.2.29 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north across remains of impluvium in atrium towards entrance doorway.
VIII.2.29 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north across tablinum to atrium and entrance doorway.
In the north-west corner of the atrium would have been a masonry lararium, (in the area to the left of the brick pilasters).
According to Boyce, this lararium was later in date than the stucco of the walls of the room. The walls were in the IVth Style.
Around the base of the lararium ran a dado of marble.
In this corner of the atrium the black border in the mosaic pavement was made to run around the two sides of the podium.
This marked its position.
According to Mau, some other object stood here before the construction of the lararium.
These would have been either the arca for the money, or a smaller and more modest lararium, which was then enlarged.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1883, 135. Bull. Inst, 1885, pp.88, 93.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.74, no. 346)
According to Giacobello, only the podium survives of the aedicula in the north-west corner of the atrium.
See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni. (p.247)
VIII.2.29 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking north across tablinum to atrium and entrance doorway.
VIII.2.29 Pompeii. May 2006. Corridor on west side of tablinum leading to rooms at rear, and stairs to lower level.