IX.3.2 Pompeii. July 2017. South wall of garden area, with stucco decoration in the first style.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden area. South wall with stucco decoration in the first style.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. 1959. Garden area. South wall with stucco decoration in the first style. 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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VI.3.2 Pompeii. 1882. Reconstruction painting of walls in garden area.
See Mau, A. 1882. Geschichte der Decorativen Wandmalerei in Pompeji. Berlin: Reimer. (p. 20, Taf I).
IX.3.2 Pompeii. December
2018. Stucco decoration in the first style on the south wall of garden. Photo courtesy of Aude
Durand.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. May 2006. Stucco decoration in the first style on the south wall of garden.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden area. South wall with stucco decoration in the first style.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. Garden area. South wall with stucco decoration in the first style.
Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden area. Marble cistern mouth in south-west corner.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. July 2017. South wall of garden area with niche.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden area. Niche in south wall.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden area. Niche in south wall. The niche was originally decorated with yellow, red and green flowers.
See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni. (p.284).
According to Boyce, the inside walls were decorated on a white background with red and yellow spots and outlined with red stripes.
The two Lares were painted on the wall above the niche and below it the serpents, confronted at an altar.
Bronze statues were found in the niche on12th July 1847: a female figure, a male figure, Hercules, Jupiter, and Isis-Fortuna.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p. 82, Pl. 4, 2.)
Helbig also gave a description of the statuettes found in the niche:
See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (69b)
IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway and window of triclinium on north side of garden area.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of triclinium on north side of garden area.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. May 2005. West wall of triclinium on north side of garden area.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall of triclinium on north side of garden area.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Recess in north wall of triclinium on north side of garden area.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. East wall of triclinium on north side of garden area.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. South wall of triclinium on north side of garden area.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Recess in south wall of triclinium on north side of garden area.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. East wall of garden area. Cupboard under staircase.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. East wall of garden area.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall of garden area. Niche at higher level.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. East wall of garden area. Top of staircase above cupboard.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. East wall of garden area. Cupboard under staircase.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. East wall of garden area. Cupboard under staircase.
IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. East wall of garden area. Cupboard under staircase with remaining plaster.