VIII.4.5 Pompeii. Shop. Linked to VIII.4.6.

Excavated. 1766, 1855 and 1861. (Strada d’Olconio 5).

VIII.4.7, VIII.4.6, and VIII.4.5 Pompeii, right of centre. December 2018.

Looking to entrance doorways on south side of Via dell’Abbondanza. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VIII.4.5 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking south to entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VIII.4.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Entrance.  On the pilaster on the left, near VIII.4.6, painted graffiti were found in 1855.

VIII.4.5-6 Pompeii. December 2006. Graffiti found on pilaster between VIII.4.5 and VIII.4.6.

According to Varone the upper line of this reads A VETTIVM CAPRASIVM.

The lower line reads P SITTIVM CONIVNCTVM IIVIR I D OVF.

See Varone A. Nuovi tituli picti pompeiani: Rivista di Studi Pompeiani I: 1987, pp. 92-100, figs. 7-9.

VIII.4.5 Pompeii. December 2006. South wall of shop, with doorway to room joined to VIII.4.4. 

VIII.4.5 Pompeii. December 2018. South wall with niche. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VIII.4.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Niche in south wall of shop.

Boyce described this niche as a small rectangular niche adorned with an aedicula façade.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.76)

VIII.4.5 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance, looking south.

Bronze sistrum found in VIII.4.5. Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.