IX.3.5 Pompeii. House of M. Lucretius or Casa delle Suonatrici.

Linked to IX.3.24. Excavated 1846 and 1851. (Strada Stabiana 33).

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IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 26, garden area, with fountain, steps for waterfall and circular pool with jet.

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 26, aedicula decorated with mosaics and shells and fountain cascading down white marble steps.

IX.3.5 Pompeii. May 2015. Room 26, garden area, with fountain, steps for waterfall and circular pool with jet. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

IX.3.5 Pompeii. May 2015. Room 26, detail of circular pool. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

IX.3.5 Pompeii. May 2006. Aedicula decorated with mosaics and shells with a fountain above a small staircase of white marble. 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 26, white marble steps of waterfall.

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west from raised garden into tablinum, and through atrium to the entrance.

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. South wall of garden area, showing window from triclinium, room 14.

IX.3.5 Pompeii. May 2015. Room 27, steps to upper floor, against north and east walls. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 27, steps to upper floor, against north and east walls.

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 27, steps to upper floor, against north and east walls

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 27, arched recess under stairs on east wall.

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north from room 27, across secondary tablinum and atrium to rear entrance at IX.3.24.

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Fauces, room 28 showing interior of entrance corridor at IX.3.24

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south from fauces, across secondary atrium, to rear of IX.3.5.

IX.3.5 Pompeii. October 2020. Looking south across atrium in the year of the pandemic.

Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 30, impluvium in secondary atrium. 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 30, secondary atrium. Looking north-east towards rear entrance at IX.3.24, rooms 28 and 29.

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room. 29, cubiculum on east of entrance at IX.3.24.

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 29, north wall with window onto vicolo.

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 29, remains of floor of cocciopesto.

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 30, east wall of secondary atrium.

The walls of the secondary atrium would have been painted with a black dado.

The middle zone would have been painted red.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.443, atrio ‘29’)

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