VIII.2.36 Pompeii. House of L. Caecilius Phoebus.
Double atrium house. Linked to VIII.2.37. Excavated 1884, 1928.
VIII.2.36 Pompeii. December 2006. Entrance and front wall to VIII.2.35.
VIII.2.36 Pompeii. May 2024. Entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.2.36 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance doorway, looking south-east towards VIII.2.37.
VIII.2.36 Pompeii. December 2004.
Looking south towards remains of stairs to the peristyle of VIII.2.37, centre left. In the centre is the passageway to the lower level.
VIII.2.36 Pompeii.
October 2023. Looking south towards passageway to lower floor. Photo courtesy of
Klaus Heese.
VIII.2.36 Pompeii. May
2024.
Entrance to passageway
to lower level. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.2.36 Pompeii. May 2006.
On the left are the remains of steps to the peristyle of VIII.2.37. On the right is the passage to the lower levels.
VIII.2.36 Pompeii. May 2006. Passage to lower levels.
VIII.2.36
Pompeii. October 2023.
Looking towards
passageway to lower floor, and doorway to room on right, taken from VIII.2.37.
Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.2.36 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking west towards atrium, from VIII.2.37.
VIII.2.36 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking north-west across impluvium in atrium.
VIII.2.36 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking west towards three rooms on the south side of the atrium.
VIII.2.36 Pompeii. October
2023. Looking south-west from VIII.2.37 towards west side. Photo courtesy of
Klaus Heese.
VIII.2.36 Pompeii. May 2024. Looking towards west
side. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.2.36 Pompeii.
October 2023. South wall of room on west side of entrance doorway. Photo
courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.2.36 Pompeii. May 2006. West wall of room on west side of entrance doorway.
VIII.2.36 Pompeii.
October 2023. Looking through doorway in west wall to rear rooms. Photo
courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.2.36
Pompeii. October 2023.
Detail of south wall
of one of the rear rooms on west side of entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of
Klaus Heese.
VIII.2.36 Pompeii. May 2006. Steps to upper floor.
VIII.2.36 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking west across terrace at the rear of the upper level.
VIII.2.36 Pompeii. May 2006. Painted plaster on west wall of room at east end of terrace at the rear of upper level.
VIII.2.36 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking south-west at remains of lower level.
According to Jashemski, at the rear of this double house (on both the street and lower level) were terraces overlooking the bay and mountains.
The terraces at the rear of house 36 were preceded by a portico.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.209).
VIII.2.36 Pompeii. May 2006. Passage to lower level.
VIII.2.36-37 Pompeii. May 2011.
Lower level, looking north-east towards detail of walling and remaining stucco. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.
VIII.6 Pompeii. December 2005. Vicolo della Regina, looking east. VIII.2.36 on right.
VIII.2.34 and VIII.2.36 from rear, Pompeii. September 2004.
VIII.2.34 Pompeii, on left. VIII.2.36-37 centre, and VIII.2.39 on right, 1959.
Looking east along rear to VIII.2.39. 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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