IX.2.18 Pompeii. House of Curvius Marcellus and the Fabia.
Excavated 1870.
IX.2.18 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 10, cubiculum or triclinium.
Fiorelli described this as a cubiculum, as do PPP and PPM, Eschebach described it as a triclinium.
Fiorelli, G.
(1875). Descrizione di Pompei,
(p.385)
See
Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.422)
See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.409)
IX.2.18 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, east wall of cubiculum/triclinium with window.
The middle zone of the decoration on this wall would have been violet/purple, the upper zone would have been white.
IX.2.18 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, cubiculum/triclinium. East wall with window onto garden area.
IX.2.18 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, north wall of cubiculum or triclinium.
This room would have had a vaulted ceiling with holes for support of the beams in this north wall.
The zoccolo would have been black, the side panels of the middle zone would have been violet/purple.
The large central panel of the middle zone was white, with the painting of Paris, Helen and Venus.
See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: Giannini. (p. 108, no.568).
IX.2.18 Pompeii. 1873. Room 10, north wall of cubiculum or triclinium.
Drawing by Geremia Discanno, 1870, of painting of Paris, Helen and Venus.
Venus is persuading Helen to listen to the shepherd Paris.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 989.
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See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1873,
Tav. II.
See Reinach S.,
1922. Répertoire de peintures grecques
et romaines. Paris
Leroux, 164, 3.
See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: Giannini. (p. 108, no.568).
IX.2.18 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Room 10, north wall of cubiculum or triclinium. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.
According to Warscher, this is a photo of all that remains of the painting.
See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.2. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.109.), p. 188.
IX.2.18 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, west wall of cubiculum or triclinium.
In the centre of the middle zone of the west wall would have been a painting of Galatea sitting on a dolphin.
The painting was already badly preserved at the time of its discovery, according to Sogliano, (471).
Galatea, covered only around her legs by a red and blue mantle, was sitting on the back of a dolphin with her right hand on its head.
In the centre of the painting, traces of the figure of Polyphemus were conserved.
See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: Giannini. (p.78, no.471).
IX.2.18 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, south wall of cubiculum or triclinium.
IX.2.18 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, south-east corner of cubiculum or triclinium.
IX.2.18 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, garden area. Looking east along line of three columns and low wall, towards east portico.
IX.2.18 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, garden area. Niche on north wall of east portico area.
According to Boyce, this rectangular niche was coated with white stucco like the wall surrounding it.
The back wall was covered with red spots, imitating flowers, its floor was a projecting tile.
Painted on the wall below was an altar and from the right a huge red and yellow serpent with a crest approached it.
Around the serpent were painted plants, and on them was perched an owl and other birds.
Behind the serpent were two dolphins and a sea-monster.
Four other small dolphins were painted somewhere nearby.
Sogliano said
they were sul podio della nicchietta.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.81 and Pl.1,4)
See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli. (p.18-19, no.62)
See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni. (p. 283, no.V75).
IX.2.18 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, niche in garden area.
IX.2.18 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, niche in garden area, with details of remains of painted stucco.
IX.2.18 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, garden area. North wall of east portico.
Below the niche was a painted serpent creeping between plants.
On the plants were birds and an owl. Today, only the niche remains.
IX.2.18 Pompeii. Pre-1937. Room 11, lararium and niche on north wall of garden area. Photo by Tatiana Warscher
IX.2.18 Pompeii. c1930s. Room 11, garden area. Lararium on north wall of east portico.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.81 and Pl.1,4)
IX.2.18 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, south side of east portico in garden area.
IX.2.18 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, garden area.
East portico with remains of steps to upper floor against north wall. Looking east into room 13, corridor to atrium.
IX.2.18 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, corridor to atrium.
The remains of the lower masonry steps (in the lower left) would have led to the rooms on the upper floor via a wooden staircase.
The line of the stairs can be seen in the remaining plaster of the left wall.
IX.2.18 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.
Room 1, north wall of the atrium (north-west corner) with traces of IV Style wall decoration.
On the left is the doorway into Corridor 13, leading to garden area 11.
See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.2. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.101.), p. 180.
IX.2.18 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, north-east corner of atrium.
North side, looking east towards room 2 and entrance corridor, on right.