IX.7.2 Pompeii. Workshop of a tenant of Coniunctus. Partly excavated 1912.

IX.7.2 Pompeii. September 2019.

Looking west along north side of Via dell’Abbondanza, with workshop, on right. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.7.2 Pompeii. June 2012. IX.7.1 and 2, and upper storey. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

IX.7.2 Pompeii. December 2005. IX.7.1 and 2, and upper storey, under renovation.

IX.7.2 Pompeii, in centre. 1961.

Looking east along Via dell’Abbondanza. 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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IX.7.2 Pompeii, in centre. Photo by Spinazzola.

Upper storey windows, Looking east along north side of Via dell’Abbondanza.

Used with the permission of the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. File name instarchbx208im127. Resource ID. 44452.

See photo on University of Oxford HEIR database

IX.7.2 Pompeii. September 2005. Upper storey on Via dell’Abbondanza.

IX.7.2 Pompeii. March 2019.

Looking towards entrance on north side of Via dell’Abbondanza, with decorated furnace.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.7.2 Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking east to IX.7.1, on Via dell’Abbondanza. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.7.2 Pompeii. May 2024.

Dividing pilaster between IX.7.2, on left, and IX.7.1, on right. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.7.2 Pompeii. May 2024. Graffiti [CIL IV 7812] on dividing pilaster between IX.7.2 and IX.7.1. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.7.2 Pompeii. December 2006. Entrance.

IX.7.2 Pompeii. May 2006. Entrance.

According to Varone and Stefani, the graffiti found on the east side of the entrance would have been CIL IV 7811, 7812, 7813, 7814, and 7815.

They say only part of CIL IV 7812 is now conserved.

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p.386)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), this reads as -

Calventium

IIv(irum)  i(ure)  d(icundo)  infectores

rog(ant)         [CIL IV 7812]

The database also records the other inscriptions as

Gavium

d(uumvirum) i(ure) d(icundo) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis)       [CIL IV 7811]

A(ulum) Suettium Verum

aed(ilem) d(ignum) r(eipublicae) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis)       [CIL IV 7813]

P(ublium) Paquium P[roculum]

d(uumvirum) i(ure) d(icundo) d(ignum) r(eipublicae)       [CIL IV 7814]

C(aium) Gavium

[      [CIL IV 7815]

IX.7.2 Pompeii. June 2019. Furnace near entrance on north side of Via dell’Abbondanza. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

IX.7.1 Pompeii. August 2023.

Furnace decorated with phallic emblems in stucco. Photo courtesy of Maribel Velasco.

IX.7.2 Pompeii. March 2019. Furnace decorated with phallic emblems in stucco.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.7.2 Pompeii. September 2019.

Furnace/oven decorated with phallic emblems in stucco. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.7.2 Pompeii. December 2018.

Furnace/oven decorated with phallic emblems in stucco. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.7.2 Pompeii. December 2018.

Detail of stucco decoration furnace/oven. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.7.2 Pompeii. December 2018. Detail of stucco decoration on west side of furnace/oven. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.7.2 Pompeii. June 2019. Detail of top of furnace decorated with phallic emblems in stucco. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

IX.7.2 Pompeii. May 2006. Top of aedicula.

IX.7.2 Pompeii. June 2019. Detail from furnace decorated with phallic emblems in stucco. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

IX.7.2 Pompeii. December 2006. According to Della Corte, a tenant of Coniunctus rented this shop.

A graffito found was CIL IV 7817 (see below). 

Found on the threshold of the shop was one of the furnaces from this workshop of dyers, adorned with phallic emblems in stucco, and enclosed inside was a very large boiler.

The other furnaces have not yet been excavated.

See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.281)

IX.7.2 Pompeii. December 2006. Aedicula with four steps topped with 4 phalli, with one a large phallus in the centre.

IX.7.2 Pompeii. Aedicula with phalli.

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

IX.11.2 Pompeii. 1974.

Aedicula with four steps topped with 4 phallus, with one large phallus in the centre.

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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IX.7.2 Pompeii. December 2006. Aedicula.

IX.7.2 Pompeii. December 2006. Graffiti on west side of entrance.

According to Varone and Stefani, the graffiti found on the west side would have been CIL IV 7816 and 7817.

They say only part of CIL IV 7817 is now conserved.

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p.384-391)

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

Popidi[um]

Se[cundum]  a[ed(ilem)]  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)       [CIL IV 7816]

P(ublium)  Vedium  Nummianum

aed(ilem)  v(iis)  aed(ibus)  s(acris)  p(ublicis)  p(rocurandis)  Coniunctus

facit      [CIL IV 7817]

IX.7.2 Pompeii. December 2006. Graffiti on west side of entrance – CIL IV 7817.

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p.386)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), it read -

P(ublium)  Vedium  Nummianum

aed(ilem)  v(iis)  aed(ibus)  s(acris)  p(ublicis)  p(rocurandis)  Coniunctus

facit      [CIL IV 7817]