VIII.5.2 Pompeii. Casa del Gallo
I (double atrium house).
Linked to VIII.5.5. Excavated 1840, 1881 and 1943.
Part 7 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 VIII.5.2 and VIII.5.5 Plan
The pictures for VIII.5.5 are included on these pages with the pictures for VIII.5.2 and a combined plan shows the room locations.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 31, cubiculum.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 31, cubiculum. Marble sill and painted plaster on either side of doorway.
The flooring would have been of cocciopesto in which were scattered small polychrome flakes.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009 Room 31, looking south into cubiculum.
This room contained the remains of two small paintings when excavated.
They were Hero and Leander, and Ariadne watching the ship of Theseus sailing away.
See Pappalardo,
U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per
Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore, (p.163).
See Helbig, W.,
1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv
verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, Hero and
Leander,
1374; Ariadne
1226.
See Schefold, K.,
1962. Vergessenes Pompeji. Bern:
Francke, (p.175 and Taf. 175,1)
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.348)
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 31, east wall of cubiculum, looking towards the north-east corner.
The zoccolo/plinth was red decorated with painted plants in alternate panels and compartments.
The middle zone of the wall was white with a panel bordered by a red band.
The painting with the story of Hero and Leander was found here, but now completely disappeared.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 31, east wall of cubiculum.
The wall painting of Hero and Leander was found on the north end of the east wall.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.348)
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. Room 31, north end of east wall of cubiculum.
Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1841, of painting of Hero and Leander which has now completely faded and disappeared.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 883.
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VIII.5.5 Pompeii. Room 31, north end of east wall of cubiculum.
Drawing by Geremia Discanno, 1870, of remains of painting of Hero and Leander but which has now completely disappeared.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 884.
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VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 31, north-east corner of cubiculum.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 31, west wall of cubiculum.
Wall painting of Ariadne watching the ship of Theseus sailing away, was found at the south end of the west wall.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.348)
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 31, south end of west wall of cubiculum.
Site of painting, now disappeared, on white panel in the middle zone of the wall, edged with a red band.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. ADS 882. Room 31, south end of west wall of cubiculum.
Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1841, of painting of Ariadne abandoned by Theseus, now faded and destroyed.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 882.
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VIII.5.5 Pompeii. Sketch by A. Aurelj of Ariadne abandoned by Theseus, from south end of west wall of cubiculum.
DAIR 83.190. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009.
Room 31, between the two red compartments dividing the panels on the west wall of the cubiculum, was a painted aedicula edged by a border, and with a painted sphynx with open wings at its top.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 31, faded medallion from the central panel of the west wall.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 31, south wall of cubiculum.
This short wall was subdivided by a narrow compartment on a red background, in which a leafy candelabra was painted.
In the white side panels were aediculae edged by bands with borders, at the centre of which some faded paintings were found.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009.
Room 31, south wall of cubiculum with remains of one of the painted aedicula, edged by a border.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 31, cubiculum, red zoccolo with remains of painted plants in panels.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 32, looking south across tablinum.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 33, biclinium, on south side of ala.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 33, south wall of biclinium.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 34, ala.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009.
Room 34, north wall of Ala with doorway into a cubiculum. Looking north-east towards two cubicula on east side of atrium.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway from atrium, to room 35, cubiculum.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 35, looking east across cubiculum.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 35, square recess in north-west corner of cubiculum.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 35, square recess in cubiculum.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 36, cubiculum.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 36, looking east across cubiculum.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 36, north-west corner of cubiculum.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 36, south-east corner of cubiculum.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 25, looking south-west across atrium.
VIII.5.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 25, north wall, with entrance to fauces from atrium.
VIII.5.2 (side wall). Pompeii. Vicolo dei 12 Dei, looking south. VIII.3, on right.
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