VIII.7.4 Pompeii. Shop. Linked to VIII.7.3.

Excavated 1873, 1883 and 2005 to 2010.

The Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia (PARP:PS) has been excavating VIII.7.1 to 15 since 2005.

For more detail see their annual research reports at http://www.fastionline.org/micro_view.php?itemkey=fst_cd&fst_cd=AIAC_356.

VIII.7.4Pompeii. December 2018. Looking west to entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VIII.7.4 Pompeii. September 2010. Entrance on Via Stabiana. Looking west (across street). Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

VIII.7.4 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance, looking west.

VIII.7.4 Pompeii. September 2010. Entrance on Via Stabiana. Looking west (from entrance) across shop and rear room.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

VIII.7.4 Pompeii. September 2010. West wall of rear room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

VIII.7.4 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east from rear room across shop to entrance on Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to Mau in BdI –

Note that neither of the shops (VIII.7.3 or 4) have the usual podium, and that the rear rooms are rather spacious. In the middle of the second shop (VIII.7.4) stands a graceful marble table, the support of which is adorned with a bust of a Satyr wearing a fawn’s skin (nebris). Evidently these are not really shops, but taverns, and locations of a caupona.

(Si noti, che in nessuna delle botteghe si trova il solito podio, e che le retrobotteghe sono stanze piuttosto spaziose. In mezza alla seconda bottega sta un grazioso tavolino di marmo, il cui sostegno era adorno d’un busto di Satiro colla nebris. Evidentemente queste non sono propriamente botteghe, ma taverne, locali d’una caupona.)

See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1875, p.126.