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. East portico area. Looking south from outside room 11.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. c.1920’s. Looking east across north portico, with doorway to room 11, centre right. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. September 2004. East side of peristyle looking south.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. 7th August 1976. Looking south across peristyle.

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. 1957. Looking south across peristyle. 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. March 2009. Looking west in north-west corner of portico.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. September 2004. Peristyle, looking west across pool.

According to Garcia y Garcia, in 1943 a bomb destroyed the central pool of the peristyle, and fortunately did not damage other parts.

See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.158).

IX.8.6 Pompeii. Looking west across peristyle.

Photograph No. 5266, by Giacomo Brogi (1822-1881), described as Casa del Nuovo Fauno, scavi nuovi, riprodotta nel 1880.

Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

IX.8.6 Pompeii, 1978. Looking east across south end of peristyle. 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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According to Jashemski, the peristyle was enclosed on four sides by twenty-two columns, white above and red below.

Cuts in the columns indicated where a wooden fence would have been inserted between the columns.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.244).

IX.8.6 Pompeii. Old undated postcard. Looking east across peristyle. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. October 2023.

Bronze fountain figure of a Satyr pouring wine, inv. 111495. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

On display in “L’altra MANN” exhibition, October 2023, at Naples Archaeological Museum.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. October 2023.

Description card for statue 111495. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

IX.8.6 Pompeii, 1982 or 1983.

Bronze statue of satyr (0.51m high) found standing on a small tufa base in the middle of the rounded part of the north edge of the pool, facing south.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 111495. (Ruesch no. 815).

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. 19th century copy of statue of satyr with wineskin.

According to Mau, in the middle of the north rounded end of the pool, found on a base of tufa, was the magnificent bronze statue of a Satyr with a wineskin.

The original was removed to the Naples Archaeological Museum, inventory number 111495.

See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza archeologica, 1881, (p.170)

IX.8.6 Pompeii. April 2019. Reproduction statue of Satyr with wineskin, originally found in peristyle garden.

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

This copy was donated to the town of Pompei by the society GORI in 2008.

Today it stands in a road on the south side of Pompeii Scavi.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. April 2019.

Noticeboard accompanying reproduction statue of Satyr with wineskin, now to be found on a road on the south side of Pompeii Scavi.

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. October 2012.

Modern copy of satyr with wineskin, displayed on the Via Plinio in modern Pompeii. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. August 27, 1904.

Looking north across pool in peristyle, towards copy of statue of satyr with wineskin. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. 1903. Looking north-west across pool in garden/peristyle area, from east side.

Photo by Esther Boise Van Deman (c) American Academy in Rome. VD_Archive_Ph_217.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. Looking north-west across peristyle from east side.

Photograph No. 1263, by G. Sommer

Reprofotografi av bild från resealbum, i samband med utställningen Samtida venetianskt konstglas - Hallwylska museet - 87773

Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 12, exedra, on south side of peristyle.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, looking south across exedra. 

IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, mosaic floor in exedra.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, remains of part of mosaic floor in exedra.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. c.1930.

Room 12, looking north across flooring composed of hexagons outlined in black, towards east portico.

See Blake, M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p.98, 109, & Pl.26,4).

IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. East portico area, looking north from outside room 12.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. September 2004. East side of peristyle, looking north.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. September 2004. Looking north-west across the peristyle.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. South-east corner of Portico. Looking north-west.

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. c.1890s? G. Sommer no. 1254, wrongly identified as Casa del Fauno.

Looking north-west across the peristyle from outside room 12, the east portico is on the right.

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. c.1880s? G. Sommer no. 1239, wrongly identified as Casa del Fauno.

Looking north-west across the wall to the peristyle from outside. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

IX.8.6 Pompeii. c.1880s? no. 1239 presumably taken by G. Sommer, as above photo.

Looking north-west across the peristyle from outside and above the exterior wall.

Photo by permission of the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. File name instarchbx208im 117. Resource ID. 44442.

See photo on University of Oxford HEIR database

IX.8.6 Pompeii. March 2009. South portico area. Looking west from outside room 12.

Cuts in the sides of the lower columns indicate where there had been a wooden fence.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p244)

IX.8.6 Pompeii. South Portico area. Looking west.

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

The cuts for the original wooden fence between columns show up very clearly in this photograph.

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