VIII.5.29 Pompeii. Shop. Linked to VIII.5.28.

Excavated 1815, 1819, 1826, 1838, 1874, 1882, 1943.

(Strada dell’Abbondanza 30).

VIII.5.29 Pompeii, on left, and VIII.5.30. December 2018.

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

VIII.5.29 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance.

On the upper two blocks of stone on the left pilaster, between VIII.5.29 and 30, graffiti were found [CIL IV 45a and 45b].

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider. (p 369, and Tav XXXIa)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) they read as –

N(umerium)  Veium  I[I]

v(irum)  v(irum)  b(onum)  o(ro)  v(os)  co[l(oni)]       [CIL IV 45a = CIL I 1672a1 (p 1017) = ILLRP 01139]
 

Amator(em)  vest(rum)

faciat(is)  aed(ilem)  M(arcum)

Ma(rium)         [CIL IV 45b = CIL I 1672a2 (p 1017) = ILLRP 01134]

VIII.5.29 Pompeii. September 2019. Looking west across from shop entrance. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.5.29 Pompeii. Electoral programme painted in red on the pilaster between entrances 28 and 29, on right of photograph above.

See Sogliano in Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1898, (p. 504).

VIII.5.29 Pompeii. May 2005. East side of shop, looking south.