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. Doorway to room 8, a storeroom or cupboard.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. 1941 photo by Tatiana Warscher. Atrium with doorway to room 8, a storeroom or cupboard.
In the panels on the walls of the atrium were paintings of still life and countryside scenes, now vanished or illegible.
DAIR 79.1986. Photo
© Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 8, white painted plaster on north wall with holes for shelving supports.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south across west side of atrium.
Doorway to room 9, a cubiculum on west side of main entrance corridor.
According to Garcia y Garcia, in September 1943 the same bomb that caused damage to IX.1.20, also damaged this house.
The west wall of the atrium was damaged, and the IV style painted plaster was partially decayed.
In the cubiculum next to the fauces, the pilaster that served as a jamb was broken.
See Garcia y
Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.150-3)
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 9, remains of painted plaster.
According to Bragantini etc, the dado in this room was red and painted with plants separated by narrow divisions.
The middle zone was painted with blue panels edged with borders with triangles, separated by narrow divisions.
Some fragments were put back in situ, after the 1943 bombing.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.400, cubicolo ‘c’)
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007.
Doorway to corridor with small room on its eastern side, between room 6 and room 7.
According to Bragantini etc, when found this room had a black dado, and the middle zone was painted with purple panels separated by borders.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.401, corridoio ‘k’)
IX.1.22 Pompeii. September 2019.
Looking south towards atrium in small
corridor on east side of tablinum.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007.
Small room, containing the stairs to the upper floor, on east side of corridor between room 6 and room 7.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 14, south side of first peristyle. Looking north.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. 1966.
Room 14, south side of first peristyle. Looking north-west. 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.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking west along rear of tablinum to room 10.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 10, north wall of oecus.
The painting now faded from the centre, was probably Thetis with Hephaestus
See Schefold, K., 1957. Die Wande Pompejis. Berlin: De Gruyter. (p.238) and Helbig 1318b
IX.1.22 Pompeii. 1868 drawing by Helbig. Room 10, north wall of oecus.
The painting now faded from the centre, was probably Thetis with Hephaestus
See Schefold, K.,
1957. Die Wande Pompejis. Berlin: De
Gruyter. (p.238).
See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1318b, taf. XVII.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Room 10, north wall of oecus. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.
Above the central painting, a painted human figure can be made out.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 14, first peristyle. Looking north across large basin at west end of peristyle.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 14, first peristyle. Looking south across large basin at west end of peristyle.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. Pre-1931 photo.
Looking towards south portico of pseudo-peristyle (our room 14), and across the tablinum to the atrium.
DAIR 31.2873. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 14, north side of first peristyle.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. 1966. Room 14, north side of first peristyle. 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.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 7, decorated floor in tablinum viewed from rear steps.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. September 2019. Room 14, looking west from east
portico towards first peristyle.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
Foto
Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 14, south side of first peristyle, looking east.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 11, looking south.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 12 on east side of south side of first peristyle.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 14, first peristyle, looking west.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. September 2019. Room 14, first peristyle,
looking north.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 14, first peristyle, looking north.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 14, west side of first peristyle.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 14, remains of painted decoration on west side of first peristyle.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 13, exedra on east side of first peristyle, looking north.
In the north wall was the recess for the couch. The rear wall of the stairs can be seen, leading up to the upper floor.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. September 2019. Room 13, looking east in exedra.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 13, looking east in exedra.
According to Bragantini etc, the walls of this exedra would have had a purple dado and yellow middle zone.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.403, esedra ‘r’)
IX.1.22 Pompeii. September 2019. Room 13, exedra, looking west
towards first peristyle.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east.
Room 15, ramp or steps to upper floor in small room north of room 13.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 15, ramp or steps to upper floor.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Room 15, looking towards east wall with small window giving light to understairs area.
Photo by Tatiana Warscher.
See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.1. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.147), p. 257.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking north. Room 16, corridor leading to room 17 and room 18.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 17, cubiculum.
On the left, in the east wall, are two windows; the smaller one was blocked up and substituted by the square larger one.
Above the windows, the square holes for the upper floor support beams can be seen.
At the east end of the south wall is the doorway leading under the stairs.
On the south wall, the high zoccolo/plinth was painted red separated by a narrow white band and crowned with a moulded stucco cornice.
The upper part of the wall was rough plaster.
On the west wall, graffiti accounts were noted.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Room 17, window in east wall, with holes for support beams of an upper floor.
The window would have been just under the ceiling. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.
See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.1. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.148), p. 258.
IX.1.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 17, blocked window in east wall of cubiculum.
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