IX.9.2 Pompeii. Caupona of L. Statius Receptus.

Linked to IX.9.1 and IX.9.a. Excavated by 1888.

V.4 Pompeii, on left. May 2005.                   Via di Nola, looking east.                                                IX.9.2, on right.

IX.9.2 Pompeii. 1888 plan.

The plan also shows IX.9.1 and side entrance IX.9.a (not numbered).

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1888, where it is referred to as IX.7., p.514.

IX.9.2 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway with long entrance corridor, looking south.

The walls of the corridor were described as being “faced with rough plaster, and on the left wall graffiti could be seen”.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1888, p.514.

IX.9.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north from rear, towards thermopolium at IX.9.1 (on left), and entrance passageway (on right).

According to NdS, this would be looking north across the atrium displuviate (atrium without an impluvium).

The flooring was made of crushed brick (mattone pesto) and the walls were covered with rustic plaster.

Near the west wall was the staircase to the upper floor, made of 13 masonry steps, which was held up by pilasters and arches.

Underneath the stairs, these formed three plastered storage recesses or cupboards of different heights.

According to NdS, the steps would have been clad with wood on the upper side.

In the north-west corner there was a fusorium or sink.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1888, p.514-5

IX.9.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room “e” on south-east side of atrium, instead of a tablinum.

This room would have had opus signinum flooring, but this was lacking.

This room appeared to have been used as a passageway from the atrium to the peristyle, with which it joined.

For rooms at the rear surrounding the peristyle, see IX.9.a.

IX.9.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room “d” in south-west corner of atrium.

Room “d” was described as being a windowed cubiculum, with a window into the atrium.

At the base of the pilaster between the rooms “e” and “d” was the mouth of a cistern.

IX.9.2 Pompeii. March 2009. South-west corner of cubiculum “d”.

IX.9.2 Pompeii. March 2009. 

Looking north from cubiculum “d” through window into atrium with stairs to upper floor, and 3 arched recesses underneath.

IX.9.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south across atrium towards doorway to cubiculum “d” at rear, arched recesses and stairs.

IX.9.2 Pompeii. March 2009. South side, recess under stairs.

IX.9.2 Pompeii. March 2009. South side, recess under stairs.

IX.9.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Middle recess under stairs.

IX.9.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Middle recess under stairs.

IX.9.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Middle recess under stairs.

IX.9.2 Pompeii. March 2009. North side, recess under stairs.

IX.9.2 Pompeii. March 2009. North side, recess under stairs.

IX.9.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Stairs to upper floor, looking south along west wall.

IX.9.2/a Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west across wide north portico of peristyle.

The arched niche with lararium painting below, referred to by Boyce as IX.9.2 is in the rear west wall of the peristyle. 

See IX.9.a for further photos of peristyle area, and surrounding rooms.

IX.9.2/a Pompeii. May 2003. Looking south-west across wide north portico, towards west wall and niche.

Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

IX.9.2/a Pompeii. March 2009.

According to Boyce –

In the west wall of the peristyle is an arched niche (h.0.35, w.0.40, d.0.30, h. above floor 1.27).

The white ground of the back wall of the niche shows faint traces of a painting; in the floor is a hole for the base of a statuette.

The wall below the niche is marked off as a panel by red stripes (h.0.65, w.2.0), and in the panel is the lararium painting.

In the centre stands an altar furnished with an egg, and on the left of it is a serpent coiling amidst plants with red flowers.

On the right of the same altar is the Genius accompanied by camillus and popa.

The Genius is wreathed, wears white tunic with a vertical stripe on the left side (the right side is covered by the toga) and the toga with the broad red band which is visible in the fold which he has drawn over his head, and carries the usual cornucopia and patera; the camillus is wreathed, wears white tunic with two vertical red stripes, and carries in the left hand a shallow dish with unidentified objects represented in it, in his right hand – leaves and fillets; the popa stands farthest to the right, is also wreathed, wears a garment around the lower part of his body, and holds a sacrificial knife in his right hand, while he conducts a hog adorned with a broad red band towards the altar.

His references – Not. Scavi,1888, 515.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (p. 90-91, no. 454).

Remains of paintings are visible in the niche. In the floor of the niche is a hole for the base of a statue.

See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni. (IX.9.2:110, p.213, no.110).

See IX.9.a for further photos of peristyle area, and surrounding rooms.