IX.7.14 Pompeii. Rear entrance to an unexcavated property?
IX.7.14 Pompeii. May 2024. Looking east through entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klause Heese.
IX.7.14 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway.
IX.7.14 Pompeii. May 2024.
Looking south-east from entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klause Heese.
IX.7.14 Pompeii. May 2024.
Looking south from entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klause Heese.
IX.7.14 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking east through entrance doorway.
IX.7.14 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking west from Casina dell’Aquila onto rear of entrance doorway.
IX.7.14 Pompeii. May 2024.
Looking north-west towards upper wall above doorway, leading into Vicolo di Tesmo, from Casina dell’Aquila. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Looking north-west from Casina dell’Aquila to rear of IX.7.14, in centre. December 2007.
According to Boyce and Jashemski, a garden was excavated near here.
The west wall of the garden can be partially seen on the right side of the doorway of IX.7.14.
Whether it belonged to IX.7.12, 14, or 16 cannot be seen until further excavation.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.89, no.445)
According to Jashemski, she quoted the location as IX.7.12(?).
She said in the north-west corner of this partially excavated garden, at the left of the entrance, stood an aedicula lararium.
In front of the lararium was a small altar, and a lararium painting on the wall around the shrine.
Many marble sculptures decorated the garden.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.239)
Looking north-west from Casina dell’Aquila to rear of entrance at IX.7.14, lower centre. 1968.
On the left can be seen the west wall of the triclinium of IX.7.12.
The west wall of the garden can be seen behind the greenery, on the right of the doorway.
According to Boyce –
Against the west
wall of the garden stands an aedicula, built upon a square masonry base (0.92
square, h.0.70).
The sides of the
base are decorated with green plants painted on the white ground.
Above the base,
walls enclose a niche (h.0.42, w.0.52, d.0.62).
In front of the
structure stands a small altar (0.24 by 0.23, h.0.80).
The roof (no longer
preserved) originally extended out over the altar as well as the niche, and the
front of it was adorned with a pediment.
It was supported by
two columns, the marks of the bases of which are still to be seen near the
corners of the base.
On the walls within
the niche is the lararium painting.
On the back wall to
the right of an altar, stands the Genius pouring a libation upon it.
To the left of the
same altar is a serpent, the head of which was done in stucco relief.
On each of the side
walls are painted three figures: from back to front – a plant, a Lar, a man in
a white garment holding in his left hand an object resembling a black cup, with
a patera in his right hand.
He quotes references
– Not. Scavi, 1881, 92-93; Bull. Inst., 1883, 146.
In Not. Scavi,
it is described as House, only partly excavated – “and corresponds to, after
the sixth doorway, west side, counting from the north-west”.
In Bull. Inst,
it is described as “West side, first entrance counting from the south, garden
in part excavated.”
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus
of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome:
MAAR 14. (p.89, no.445).
IX.7.14/15/16 Pompeii. 2015/2016.
Looking south-west
from Casina dell’Aquila towards east side of Vicolo di Tesmo, in lower photo.
The garden area is on the left of the photo,
between entrances at IX.7.14 and IX.7.15.
The rooms on the right are part of
IX.7.16. Photo
courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
According to Boyce and Jashemski, a garden was excavated near here.
Whether it belonged to IX.7.12, 14, or 16 cannot be seen until further excavation.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.89, no.445)
According to Jashemski, she quoted the location as IX.7.12(?).
She said in the north-west corner of this partially excavated garden, at the left of the entrance, stood an aedicula lararium.
In front of the lararium was a small altar, and a lararium painting on the wall around the shrine.
Many marble sculptures decorated the garden.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.239).
IX.7.14 or 16 Pompeii. 2023.
Looking down from the Casina dell’Aquila towards a possible aedicula in the north-west corner of the garden area, in the centre of the photo.
Photo courtesy of Google Earth.
Due to the fact that the area has not been fully excavated, the garden area may belong to either house IX.7.14 or IX.7.16.