IX.3.2 Pompeii. Officina offectoria di Ubonius. Officina tintoria di Ubonius. Dye shop of Ubonius.

Excavated 1847, 1851 and 1868. (Strada Stabiana 25).

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IX.3.2 Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking east to entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. September 2017. Looking east to entrance doorway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance.

According to Mau, the election notice found on the outside wall

Postumium Proculum aed. Offectores rog(ant)     [CIL IV 864]

(The Dyers request the election of Postumius Proculus as aedile)

may have indicated that the Dyers of the two establishments opposite each other, IX.3.2 and VII.2.11, had united in supporting the candidacy of Proculus.

See Mau, A., 1907, translated by Kelsey F. W. Pompeii: Its Life and Art. New York: Macmillan. (p.386)

Found in September 1843, a graffito on the pilaster on the left, between IX.3.1 and IX.3.2

M(arcum)  Holconium

Priscum  aedil(em)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)    [CIL IV 860]

Graffiti on the pilaster on the right, between IX.3.2 and IX.3.3 read

Q(uintum)  Postumium

aed(ilem)    [CIL IV 861]

Casellium    [CIL IV 862]

M(arcum)  Holconium

Priscum  aedil(em)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)    [CIL IV 863]

See Pagano M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi. (p.159)

IX.3.2 Pompeii. September 2019. South side of entrance corridor, looking south on Via Stabiana.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. July 2017.

Looking east across the dye shop (former atrium) from entrance corridor.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking east across the dye shop from entrance corridor.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. September 2019. Looking east along mosaic in entrance corridor.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. July 2017. Detail of mosaic in entrance corridor at west end near pavement of Via Stabiana.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking east towards mosaic in entrance corridor at east end near former atrium.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. December 2019.

Doorway threshold from entrance corridor to former atrium, on left. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. July 2017. Doorway threshold from entrance corridor to former atrium, on left.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. July 2017. Detail of mosaics in entrance corridor at east end.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. May 2006. Entrance mosaic.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. c.1930. Mosaic in entrance vestibule, looking east.

DAIR 41.680. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

See Pernice, E., 1938. Pavimente und Figürliche Mosaiken: Die Hellenistische Kunst in Pompeji, Band VI. Berlin: de Gruyter, see taf. 30.3)

IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Mosaic in entrance vestibule. Looking east.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Mosaic in entrance vestibule. Looking west.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway from vestibule to shop at IX.3.1.

IX.3.1/2 Pompeii. c.1930. Mosaic floor of room on left of entrance corridor of IX.3.2.

It is believed that originally this room was linked to the atrium by a doorway at the south end of the east wall, and probably used as a triclinium.

Later, it’s use was changed to a workshop.

This white mosaic floor with a simple border of black tesserae was decorated with a square “carpet” of a meander pattern including squares in four colours.

DAIR 41.714. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

See Pernice, E., 1938. Pavimente und Figürliche Mosaiken: Die Hellenistische Kunst in Pompeji, Band VI. Berlin: de Gruyter, see taf. 36.5)

IX.3.2 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking towards exedra/ala on north side of former atrium.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking north across flooring in exedra/ala on north side of former atrium.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Exedra/ala on north side of former atrium.

This room would have had a white mosaic floor edged with a band of black mosaic, just visible in the north-east corner, (centre right of photo).

IX.3.2 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking east along north side of former atrium.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Cubiculum on north side of former atrium.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Cubiculum on north side of former atrium.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Cubiculum on north side of former atrium.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Cubiculum on north side of former atrium. Plaster cornice on north wall.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room on north side of garden area. Looking east through small door from former atrium.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Room on north side of garden area. Looking north from garden area.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall of room on north side of garden area.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009. East wall of room on north side of garden area.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking east across former atrium towards room (on left) on north side of garden area (on right).

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking across former atrium to garden area.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking across former atrium to garden area.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking towards south wall of former atrium, on right, and garden area, in centre.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. 1959. Looking towards south wall of former atrium, on right, and garden area, on left. 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.3.2 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking east to garden area.

The pillar originally supported a two-sided portico on the north and west sides. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking east to garden area.

The pillar originally supported a two-sided portico on the north and west sides.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking east to garden area.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.3.2 Pompeii. March 2009.

Garden area. Looking east. The pillar originally supported a two-sided portico on the north and west sides.

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