IX.1.22
Pompeii. House of M. Epidi Sabini.
Linked to IX.1.29. Excavated 1858 and 1866. Restored 1985.
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IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 3, cubiculum on east side of main entrance fauces, looking south.
According to Bragantini etc, the walls of this room were painted with a black dado decorated with plants.
The middle zone was painted with red panels and the upper zone was faded.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.400, cubicolo ‘d’)
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 3, looking towards south-east corner in cubiculum.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 4, triclinium in south-east corner of atrium.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 4, north-east corner of triclinium.
According to Bragantini etc, the walls of this room would have had a low white dado.
The middle zone was white with yellow architectural painting and red stripes.
The upper zone was also white.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.400, triclinio ‘e’)
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 5, cubiculum on east side of atrium.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 5, looking east in cubiculum.
According to Bragantini etc, the walls in this room would have had a low red dado.
On the dado of the east and south walls, painted plants could be seen, separated by narrow white lines.
The middle zone of the walls would have had green panels, separated by narrow white divisions with golden painted candelabra.
The recess for the bed was in the north wall. On the east end of the north wall, a flying cupid was painted.
The upper walls had faded.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.400-401, cubicolo ‘g’)
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 6, a windowed triclinium.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Room 1, looking towards room 6, on east side of atrium. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.
According to Warscher – “the wall decoration was the same as the west wall.
On the wall (in the photo above) one can clearly see a medallion, and at the other end of the same wall, near the lararium, one can clearly see a rectangle.”
See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.1. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.114), p. 199.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 1, atrium looking north to room 7.
According to Schone in BdI, - “In the atrium because the floor was ruined, a large cistern was revealed.
The atrium showed the usual proportions and regular arrangement, except for the fact that the usual rooms to be found on the left side were missing.
The walls were simply decorated in red, divided by distinct white stripes with some colourful ornament.
On the second of these stripes to the left, there was a graffito “sabinis”, which was the only oscan inscription found in these excavations.” (1867)
See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1867, p.47-48
IX.1.22 Pompeii. Graffito of “sabinis” from west wall of atrium.
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.139) and Fiorelli, “Descr”, p.373.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 1, atrium with remains of impluvium.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 1, west wall of atrium.
According to Bragantini etc, the dado of the atrium walls was painted but faded.
The middle zone was red, and on the west wall was a large central panel.
The side panels had paintings in them, and on the north side was a painted medallion.
On the west side of the door in the north wall, would have been another painted medallion of a landscape.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.399, atrio ‘b’).
IX.1.22 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking towards the painted west wall of the atrium, lower centre.
Above this, in the centre, is the atrium of IX.1.20
From cork model in Naples Archaeological Museum.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Room 1, west wall and north-west corner of atrium. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.
According to Warscher –
“On the west wall, four red panels remained; divided by vertical narrow strips; nearly in the middle there was a wider strip, of around 0.60.
In the centre of the panels rectangles and medallions remained. On the rectangles, attributes of the deities were seen, with landscapes on the medallions.
The medallions would have been on the north wall, and at least one remained on part of the wall near to the doorway of the room in the north-west corner of the atrium.
Fortunately, the German Institute (DAIR) conserved two copies of watercolours of the landscapes.”
See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.1. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.111a), p. 195.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. W.1431.
Medallion with landscape, from an unknown location on a wall of the atrium, now faded/disappeared.
Painted c. July 1880.
Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. Painted 25th July 1880.
Medallion with landscape, from an unknown location on a wall of the atrium, now faded/disappeared.
DAIR 83.215. Photo
© Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. Painted 24th July 1880.
Medallion with landscape, from an unknown location on a wall of the atrium, now faded and disappeared.
DAIR 83.214. Photo
© Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 7, looking north across atrium towards tablinum.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Room 7, looking north across atrium towards tablinum. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.
According to Warscher – “Two steps faced with marble on their upper side, divided the tablinum from the peristyle”.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 7, east wall of tablinum.
The walls of the tablinum were divided into sections, the centre of the dado (of the east wall) was painted white and dolphins were painted in two small panels, the side panels of the dado were painted purple.
In centre of the middle zone was a blue panel, with a red drape or curtain at the top.
Above the curtain was a naked figure in the centre.
In the side panels on a yellow background were architectural paintings.
The upper zone was yellow.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.401, tablino ‘h’).
IX.1.22 Pompeii. W.1488. Room 7, east wall of tablinum with remains of painted decoration.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Room 7, painted decoration from side panel on east wall. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.
See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.1. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.122), p. 207.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. Pre-1943.
Room 7, painted decoration from zoccolo panel on east and west wall. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.
See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.1. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.122a), p. 207.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 7, north side of tablinum with two steps to peristyle.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Room 7, looking towards north-east corner. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.
See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.1. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.121), p. 206.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007.
Room 7, tablinum, west wall and doorway with one step to room 10 in north-west corner.
According to BdI, in the middle of the side walls, on a blue background, were two paintings.
The one that was found on the right (east wall) was almost entirely destroyed, only a fragment of a group of cupid and Pan was preserved.
The painting on the left (west) wall represented Hermaphrodite and Silenus.
(Nel mezzo
delle pareti laterali erano su fondo azzurro due quadri, dei quali quello a
destra e quasi interamente distrutto; ne e conservato soltanto il frammento
d’un gruppo di Amorini e Panisco, analogo a quello publicato p.e presso
Mueller-Wies. Denkm.d.a. K.II 44,531.
La pittura a
sinistra, che rappresentava un Ermafrodito dormiente snudato da un Satiro, e
stata levata e trasportata nel Museo Nazionale di Napoli.)
See BdI, 1867, (p.48).
According to Bragantini etc, the painting of Hermaphrodite and Silenus was found on the east wall.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.401, tablinum ‘h’).
IX.1.22
Pompeii. July 2017. Painting of Hermaphrodite and Silenus. Found in
tablinum of IX.1.22 Pompeii, from west wall.
Now
in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 27875.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. Painting of Hermaphrodite and Silenus. Found in tablinum of IX.1.22 Pompeii, from west wall.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inventory number 27875.
Helbig identified: Tablinum: Pan and Eros, 407, Hermaphrodite, 1371b.
See Helbig, W.,
1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv
verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1371b).
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inventory number 27875.
Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches
Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1371b).
IX.1.22 Pompeii. W.351. Room 7, drawing of Hermaphrodite and Silenus from centre of west wall of tablinum.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inventory number 27875.
DAIR 83.213. Photo
© Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1371b).
IX.1.22 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Room 7, west wall of tablinum. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.
See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.1. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.120), p. 205.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. Room 7, tablinum. 1886 painting of wall decoration, but with central painting of cupids in a boat.
See D’Amelio P., 1886. Dipinti Murali di Pompei. Naples: Richter. Pl. XVII.
Schefold said that this was how the severely destroyed west wall would have looked, except that the Hermaphrodite and Silenus painting would have been seen in the centre, and not the cupids.
See Schefold, K., 1957. Die Wände Pompejis. Berlin: De Gruyter. (p.237)
IX.1.22 Pompeii. Room 7, tablinum. Photo by Tatiana Warscher of painting of wall decoration. W.347.
Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 7, decorated floor in tablinum.
According to Bragantini etc, the floor was made of cocciopesto with shapes delineated by white tesserae.
The diamond shapes formed a net design, and in the centre of each diamond was a small tesserae cross shape.
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