IX.12.4 Pompeii. House of the
Second Cenaculum or Casa del secondo Cenacolo colonnato.
Linked to IX.12.3. First excavated 1912. Bombed 1943.
IX.12.1-5 Pompeii. Plan of lower floor and entrances after Spinazzola.
See Spinazzola V., 1953. Pompei alla luce degli Scavi Nuovi di Via dell’Abbondanza (anni 1910-1923). Roma: La Libreria della Stato, fig. 680.
IX.12.1-5 Pompeii. Plan of upper floor after Spinazzola.
See Spinazzola V., 1953. Pompei alla luce degli Scavi Nuovi di Via dell’Abbondanza (anni 1910-1923). Roma: La Libreria della Stato, fig. 686, p. 716.
IX.12.2/3/4/5 Pompeii. February 2017. Looking
east along front façade with entrance doorways. Photo courtesy of Johannes
Eber.
Façade
and Entrance fauces “a”.
IX.12.4
Pompeii, on right. August 2023.
Front façade, with
entrance at IX.12.3, on left. Photo courtesy of Maribel Velasco.
IX.12.4 Pompeii, in centre. October 2024.
Looking north from Via dell’Abbondanza, with IX.12.3 on left, and IX.12.5 on right. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IX.12.3, on left,
IX.12.4 in centre, IX.12.5 on right, Pompeii. June 2024.
Upper
front façade above IX.12.4. Photo
courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
IX.12.4 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance with columns above.
IX.12.4 Pompeii.
December 2005. Entrance in centre.
According to Garcia y Garcia, number 2 and 4 were hit by bombs in the air bombardment on 19th September 1943.
See Garcia y
Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.158)
IX.12.4 Pompeii.
August 2023. Looking north through entrance doorway into fauces “a”. Photo
courtesy of Maribel Velasco.
Upper cenaculum/terrace.
IX.12.4 Pompeii, May 2018. Looking up to first floor columns on west end, from entrance. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IX.12.4 Pompeii, May 2018. Looking up to first floor columns on east end, from entrance. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IX.12.5 Pompeii, on left. June 2024.
Looking south, with
entrance corridor/fauces “a” of IX.12.4, centre right. Photo
courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
IX.12.5 and IX.12.4 Pompeii. February 2017. Looking
south to upper and lower levels. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
IX.12.4 Pompeii. February 2017. Looking
south to upper level dining room above IX.12.4 and 3. Photo courtesy of
Johannes Eber.
IX.12.4 and IX.12.3 Pompeii. May 2010.
Upper cenaculum. This room would have looked over the Via dell’Abbondanza as well as over and down into the atrium below.
Looking south from above interior.
IX.12.5, IX.12.4, and IX.12.3 Pompeii. February
2017. Looking south to rear view of upper terrace. Photo courtesy of Johannes
Eber.
IX.12.4 Pompeii. 2016/2017.
Looking south to
rear of upper cenaculum/terrace above IX.12.4 and 3. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
IX.12.4 and IX.12.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Taken from the rear.
Looking south to rear of upper cenaculum/terrace, and rooms below. The atrium “c” is the lower part of the photo.
When found, the atrium was completely empty of plaster in all its vast space.
The west and east walls were continuous, other than for a doorway in the east wall opening in the north-east corner.
Here was the wooden stairway rising to the upper floor, no less than 6.50m long by a height of 5m, roughly.
In the north wall were two doorways.
The one on the west side leading to a long and narrow room (not less than 6 x 3m) with a doorway penetrating under the upper rear rooms of IX.12.1, leading west into a short passageway. The one on the east side, another vast rectangular room (6.50 x 3.60m) and at its rear leading to a narrow room (less than 1.50 by around 10.70m), perhaps unroofed and giving light to the room and passageway.
See Spinazzola,
V. Pompei, alla luce degli Scavi Nuovi di
Via dell’Abbondanza (Anni 1910-1923), Vol.2, p.715-6.
The door to IX.12.2 (separate steps to an upper floor) is on right.
IX.12.5, IX.12.4, IX.12.3 and IX.12.2 and IX.12.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south from rear.
IX.12.5, IX.12.4 and IX.12.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Taken from the rear. Looking south to rear of terrace, and rooms below.
IX.12.5, IX.12.4, and IX.12.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Showing rear view of upper terrace, and partly excavated rooms below.