I.7.19 Pompeii. House. Excavated 1912 and 1925 to 1927.
Linked to I.7.10, I.7.11 and I.7.12.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking towards steps up to garden of I.7.12, and doorway to cubiculum in north-east corner of the pseudoperistyle.
Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2018.
North wall in north-east corner with two niches. Photo
courtesy of Aude Durand.
According to Boyce, in the north wall are two arched niches at different levels.
The lower is the larger and has a slab of marble as its floor.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii.
Rome: MAAR 14. (p.26, no.42).
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. North wall of garden area, lower niche on east side of steps to I.7.12.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2018.
North wall of garden area, lower niche on east side of steps to I.7.12. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. North wall of garden area, upper niche on east side of steps to I.7.12.
According to Boyce, the upper niche contained the remains of a wooden box, in which were found two figurines –
A marble statuette of Venus, broken into two pieces and badly preserved.
The nude Venus was standing with her right arm resting on a pilaster, her face turned to the left.
A terracotta figure of a woman reclining upon a couch, in her right hand she held a patera umbilicata.
A serpent glides towards her, its body stretched over the left side of the couch.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1929, 371, with photo of statuette of the reclining figure.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.26, no.42)
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2018.
Detail of upper niche on north wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
I.7.19 Pompeii. August
2023.
Looking east to window and doorway to cubiculum in
north-east corner of the pseudoperistyle. Photo
courtesy of Maribel Velasco.
According to NdS –
“It is the most
spacious and elegant cubiculum of this house, with a flat ceiling in the front
half, and a round vault at the rear corresponding to the bed recess, a finer
type of floor similar to those of the noblest rooms, with a door and square
window, open to the peristyle. The decoration, although not of excellent
preservation, appears to be of great elegance: with a white zoccolo/plinth and
black zoccolo/plinth with panels with a black and blue background in the front
part of the room, it becomes richer and livelier in the alcove where a large
landscape painting stands out on the rear wall, surmounted by another smaller
one, more discoloured in the upper frieze.”
(È il più spazioso ed elegante cubicolo di questa abitazione, con
soffitto piano nella meta anteriore, e volta a tutto sesto nel fondo in
corrispondenza dall’incassiatura del letto, pavimento di tipo più fine simile cioè
a quelli degli ambienti più nobili, con porta e finestra quadrata in basso,
aperta sul peristilio, e finestrina verticale in alto praticata a mo’ di
abbaino, sul terrazzo di copertura del cubicolo. La decorazione, per quanto non
di eccellente conservazione, appare di grande eleganza: a zoccolo bianco e
zoccolo nero con riquadri a fondo nero ed azzurro nella parte anteriore
dell’ambiente, diventa più ricca e vivace nell’alcova dove un grande quadro
paesistico campeggia sulla parete di fondo sormontato da altro minore più scolorito nel fregio superiore.)
See Notizie degli Scavi di
Antichità, 1929, (p.372)
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking east to doorway to cubiculum in north-east corner of the pseudoperistyle.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. Looking east from doorway. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.7.19 Pompeii. March 2024. Looking along north wall towards
north-east corner. Photo courtesy of
Giuseppe Ciaramella.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. North wall of cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December
2023.
Detail from north
wall of cubiculum. Photo courtesy of
Miriam Colomer.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. Vaulted ceiling at east end of cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.7.19 Pompeii. 2017/2018/2019.
North-east
corner and east wall of cubiculum. Photo
courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking east in cubiculum, in north-east corner of peristyle.
According to Peters, on the east wall was found a large sacral-idyllic landscape.
The painting was enclosed in a segmental arch, the landscape surrounded by a flat, dark band.
The lower portion had suffered from damp (even in 1963) and could only be described from a photo taken in earlier years.
Above the aedicula, a nearly square painting also pictured a landscape with a figure, probably Marsyas.
See Peters, W.J.T. (1963): Landscape in Romano-Campanian Mural Paintings. The Netherlands, Van Gorcum & Comp. (p.68-69, & fig.49)
I.7.19 Pompeii.
Old undated photograph of painting from east wall of cubiculum, shortly after excavation.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. Upper east wall of cubiculum.
Remains of “a nearly square painting also pictured a landscape with a figure, probably Marsyas”,
as described by Peters in Landscape in Romano-Campanian Mural Paintings (see above). Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.7.19 Pompeii. March 2024. Detail of painted decoration on
south wall at west end. Photo
courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
I.7.19 Pompeii. March 2024.
West end of south wall, on left, and west wall with window and doorway to pseudoperistyle.
Photo courtesy of
Giuseppe Ciaramella.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. Looking towards west wall of cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006.
Looking west from cubiculum in north-east of peristyle. The arched niche in the west wall can be seen across the north portico.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. Detail from upper west wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.7.19 Pompeii. September 2021. Looking south-west across
garden area. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking south-west across portico into garden.
I.7.19 Pompeii. 1972. Looking south-west across portico into garden. 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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I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. East wall of east portico. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.7.19 Pompeii. August
2023. Looking south along east portico of peristyle. Photo courtesy of
Maribel Velasco.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. Looking south along east portico of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.7.19 Pompeii. September 2021.
Looking towards south wall of east portico of peristyle and garden area. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. Looking south along east portico of peristyle towards garden area. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. Looking towards south wall of garden area. Photo courtesy of John Puffer.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. Small room and steps in south-east corner of garden area. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking south up steps to upper floor, in the south-east corner of the peristyle area.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. Doorway to room on east side of steps.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017.
Looking east in small room on east side of steps in south-east corner of garden area. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. Small room to east side of steps, with arched recess under steps.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. Steps up to garden of I.7.12, in north-east corner of peristyle.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. Steps down to north portico from garden area of I.7.12. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.