IX.8.6 Pompeii. Casa del
Centenario or House of the Centenary
or Domus A Rustii Veri e Tiberius
Claudi Veri.
Linked to IX.8.3, IX.8.8, IX.8.a, and IX.8.c. Excavated 1879, 1881 and 1902.
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IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north-west across the atrium.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 5, cubiculum.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 5, north wall.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Atrium, north-west corner, between rooms 5 and 6.
According to Bragantini –
there would have been a painting of a flying cupid with incense burner, on the west wall of the atrium, at the north end, to the left.
There would have been a painting of a flying female figure, on the west side of the north wall, to the right.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.515-6)
IX.8.6 Pompeii. W.1472. Drawing of a flying cupid with incense burner, from atrium.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. W.383. Drawing of painted flying figure, from west side of north wall of atrium.
She carried a plate in her right hand, and a flap of her mantle was above her head.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. September 2004. Doorways to rooms 7 and 6 on west side of atrium.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 6, cubiculum.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, north-west corner.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 7, cubiculum.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, west wall.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. c.1930. Room 7, looking across flooring with a net of meanders and squares of white tesserae in cocciopesto.
See Blake, M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p.26 & Pl.3, tav.2)
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, ala on west side of atrium, with base for cupboard?
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, north wall.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. April 2018. Looking towards south-west corner of atrium, with south wall of room 8, ala, on right.
On the left is the tablinum, room 9. Photo courtesy of Ian Lycett-King.
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Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License v.4 International.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Atrium, looking north across impluvium towards entrance, from tablinum.
According to Mau, “it was noted that under the rear part of the right (west) side of the atrium, there was a vast cellar that stretched under the near (north) portico of the peristyle, and to which one descended by a stairs situated on the rear margin of the impluvium: an example so far unique in Pompeii”.
See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza
Archeologica, 1881, (p.124).
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, tablinum. Looking south to peristyle garden.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, corridor, and room 9, tablinum. Looking south to peristyle.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. c.1930. Room 9, looking north across flooring in tablinum, towards atrium and entrance doorway.
See Blake, M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the
Republic and Early Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p.98, 104, & Pl.33, tav.3).
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, corridor or andron to peristyle and rear rooms.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, corridor, and small side door to room 11, black triclinium/oecus.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, mosaic in threshold of side door from corridor/andron.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, black triclinium/oecus. Looking north from north-east portico.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, mosaic in threshold of floor from portico.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. December 2007. Room in north-east corner of peristyle.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, north wall.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, north upper wall.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. September 2004. Room in north-east corner of peristyle. North wall.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. Room 11, North wall.
Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. Room 11, painting by Niccolini showing detail from north wall.
See Niccolini F, 1896. Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei: Volume
Quarto. Napoli, Supplemento, Tav. XXIX.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. 1966. Room 11, centre of zoccolo of north wall. 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.8.6 Pompeii. 1966.
Room 11, panel with painted plant in zoccolo of north wall. 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.8.6 Pompeii. Room 11, east wall. Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, east wall.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. September 2004. Room in north-east corner of peristyle.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, central panel on east wall.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, painted panel on east wall.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, cupid in central panel on east wall.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, painted panel on east wall.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, black mosaic floor.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 11, mosaic door sill.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. September 2004. Room 11, mosaic door sill.
IX.8.6 Pompeii. Looking north along east portico towards doorway to room 11, on right.
Photograph No. 1283, by Giorgio Sommer, (1834-1914), described as Casa del Fauno.
Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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