IX.2.26 Pompeii. House of M. Casellius Marcellus.
Excavated 1869.
Part 1 Part 2
IX.2.26 Pompeii. March 2019. Looking south
towards front façade and entrance doorway.
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Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.2.26 Pompeii. March 2019. Looking towards east
side of entrance doorway which is on the right.
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IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019. Looking towards upper east side of entrance doorway.
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IX.2.26 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.
According to Warscher-
this photo shows the painted exterior façade on the east of the doorway, with small window into triclinium.
See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.2. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.129.), p. 227.
IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019.
Looking
towards upper east side of entrance corridor wall/doorway, on left, and
kitchen, on west (right) side.
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IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019. Looking south towards upper entrance doorway.
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IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019. Looking towards upper entrance doorway and west side.
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IX.2.26 Pompeii. March 2019. Looking towards west
side of entrance doorway.
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Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.2.26 Pompeii. March 2019. Detail from west
side of front façade, detail of red and black painted panels.
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Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019. Detail of painted decoration from west side of entrance doorway.
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IX.2.26 Pompeii. March 2019. Detail of painted
decoration from lower west side of entrance doorway.
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IX.2.26 Pompeii. March 2019. Looking towards upper
west side of entrance doorway with window into kitchen.
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Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.2.26 Pompeii. March 2019.
Front
façade, detail of red and black painted panels, below kitchen window on west
side of doorway.
On
the right would be IX.2.27.
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IX.2.26 Pompeii. March 2019. West side of front
façade, detail of red and black painted panels from below kitchen window.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.2.26 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.
According to Warscher-
this photo shows the painted exterior façade on the west of the doorway, with window into kitchen.
See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.2. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.130.). p. 227.
IX.2.26 Pompeii. March 2019.
Front
façade, west side of entrance doorway, detail of separation between IX.2.26, on
left, and IX.2.27, on right.
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IX.2.26 Pompeii. March 2019.
Front façade, west side of
entrance doorway, front wall between IX.2.26, on left, and IX.2.27, on right,
at pavement level.
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IX.2.26 Pompeii.
March 2019.
Front façade, west side of
entrance doorway, front wall at division between IX.2.26, on left, and IX.2.27,
on right.
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IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019. Looking south-west along roadway towards entrance doorway.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.2.26 Pompeii. March 2019. Looking south-east
along roadway towards entrance doorway.
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Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.2.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance doorway in façade.
The two-coloured painted panels of the plaster can just about be seen.
IX.2.26 Pompeii. 1931. Exterior wall of façade, showing plaster painted in alternative panels of red and black.
DAIR 31.1073.
Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
According to PPP, the panels might have been painted red and black, or perhaps red and yellow?
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.425)
IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019. Looking west along pavement towards entrance doorway.
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IX.2.26 Pompeii. March 2019. Looking south
towards pavement outside entrance doorway.
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IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019. Detail of pavement flooring.
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IX.2.26 Pompeii. March 2019. Looking south to
threshold of entrance doorway.
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Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.2.26 Pompeii. March 2019.
Looking south through entrance doorway into entrance corridor/fauces.
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IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019. Looking south along entrance corridor towards the atrium.
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Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.2.26 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway, looking south.
According to Trendelenburg,
“The second entrance of the north vicolo gave entrance to a house (G. d. S. XIII p. 33 following), which was remarkable for the good conservation of the painted plaster of which the walls of both the external and the internal façade were coated with.
In the beautiful white, yellow and black decoration, we could have seen cupids, birds, animals, griffins and other fantastic figures, but in this house we would seek in vain for mythological scenes.
Among the figures which enlivened the walls, a dog merited special attention.
It was painted in small proportions in the first panel of the entrance corridor on the left of where one entered the doorway.
It was attached by means of a chain to a tree trunk, recalling the “cave canem” mosaic at the entrance of the House of the Tragic Poet.
The entrance corridor was flanked on the right by the kitchen, on the left by the triclinium that opened entirely onto the atrium.
The floor of it was of mattone pesto with a meandering stripe that ran around all four sides.
In the centre was a square with a circle of white stones to mark the position of the table.
Near to the entrance corridor wall in the atrium, a red podium could be seen.
On its principal face the altar and two serpents were painted, above this was the lararium in the form of an aedicula with roof, with two small supporting columns.
On the opposite side and right alongside of the tablinum, there was a brick base, the surface of which was all covered with rust, leaving no doubt that this was the base for the iron box, in which the money was kept.
In the floor of the second room on the left was a small coloured mosaic depicting two white doves and a closed box of yellow and red below them.
In the garden was a narrow terrace, supported by four stuccoed columns, on which numerous inscribed graffiti were seen, published by Baron in GdS, XI, p.281, then in CIL IV, p. XVII, no.3297 and following.
Today, the strokes of the letters are too deleted, and are best compared with the publication. Where, however, I managed to read a few words I found exactly as copied by Baron, except the beginning of the verse of the Aeneid, which is written just like this: CERTE HINC ROMANOS, etc.”
See, Trendelenburg
in Bullettino dell’Instituto di
Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1871, p.179.
IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019. Looking towards east side of entrance doorway
threshold.
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IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019. Looking towards east side of entrance corridor/fauces.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019. Looking towards east wall of entrance
corridor/fauces.
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IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019. Looking towards upper east wall above entrance
corridor/fauces.
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IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019. Looking south along east side of entrance
corridor/fauces.
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IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019.
Looking
south along east wall of entrance corridor/fauces, through to atrium, tablinum
and peristyle area.
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IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019. Looking south along upper east wall above entrance
corridor/fauces.
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IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019. Looking west along threshold of entrance doorway.
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IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019. Looking towards west side of entrance doorway.
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IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019. Looking towards upper west wall of entrance
corridor/fauces.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019. Looking towards west wall of entrance corridor/fauces,
with doorway to kitchen.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019. Looking towards west wall of entrance corridor/fauces,
with doorway to kitchen.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019. Looking towards upper west wall of entrance
corridor/fauces, with doorway to kitchen.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019.
Looking
south along west wall of entrance corridor/fauces with doorway to kitchen, and
towards west side of atrium.
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IX.2.26
Pompeii. March 2019.
Looking
south along upper west wall of entrance corridor/fauces with doorway to
kitchen, and rooms on west side of atrium.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.