IX.1.15 Pompeii. Thermopolium/Caupona of Primus.

Linked to IX.1.16. Excavated 1853 and 1857. (Strada Stabiana 88)

IX.1.15 Pompeii, centre left, on Via Stabiana, and IX.1.16, centre right, Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking north-east from Holconius’ crossroads, towards bar with two entrances. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.1.15 Pompeii, centre left, and IX.1.16, centre right on Via dell’Abbondanza. December 2018.

Looking north-east from Holconius’ crossroads, towards bar with two entrances. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.1.15 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Looking across crossroads of Holconius towards IX.1.15 on Via Stabiana.

IX.1.16, linked entrance, is on Via dell’Abbondanza, on the right. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.

See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.1. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.59), p. 92.

IX.1.15 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance on Via Stabiana. Looking east.

According to Della Corte, this was a large caupona of the usual form with rear and upstairs room.

He thought it would have been in the possession of a Primus, according to the recommendations written on the left of entrance IX.1.15.

A(ulum)  Vettium  Caprasium

Felicem  aed(ilem)  Primus  rog(at)      [CIL IV 953]      

M(arcum)  Holconium  Priscum

aed(ilem)  primus  rog(at)  Proculu(s)      [CIL IV 966]

See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.210)

IX.1.15 Pompeii. May 2005. Corner of Via Stabiana, with Via dell’Abbondanza, on the right.

IX.1.15 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking east towards linked entrance at IX.1.16.

IX.1.15 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Looking east from Via Stabiana. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.

See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.1. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.58), p. 90.

IX.1.15 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.

Looking east towards pilaster at junction of Via Stabiana and Via dell’Abbondanza.

According to Warscher, this corner pilaster, on the face turned towards the Decumanus, showed traces of a disappearing Oscan inscription.

See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.1. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.57), p. 90.

IX.1.15, Pompeii. July 2021.

Looking east through doorway on Via Stabiana, with doorway at IX.1.16, on Via dell’Abbondanza, on right.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.1.15 Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking towards east wall, with linked entrance at IX.1.16, on right. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.1.15 Pompeii. May 2003.

Looking east towards linked entrance at IX.1.16. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.