V.2.a Pompeii. Side entrance to V.2.1. Excavated 1883.

V.2.a, on right, Pompeii. September 2021.
Looking north on Vicolo di Cecilio Giocondo, with entrance doorway, on right.
Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.a, on right, Pompeii. September 2021.

Looking north on Vicolo di Cecilio Giocondo, with entrance doorway, on right.

Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.a Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance.

V.2.a Pompeii. September 2021.
Looking east from entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.a Pompeii. September 2021.

Looking east from entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.a Pompeii. December 2005. Looking east from entrance. On the left of the picture, the blocked door would have lead to the latrine. This is now viewable in Room 4 of V.2.1

V.2.a Pompeii. December 2005. Looking east from entrance.

On the left of the picture, the blocked door would have led to the latrine. This is now viewable in room 4 of V.2.1

Pompeii. December 2005.
Blocked doorway in the wall between V.2.a and V.2.b, leading into fauces of V.2.1, (room 6 or room “m”).

Pompeii. December 2005.

Blocked doorway in the wall between V.2.a, and V.2.b, leading into fauces of V.2.1, (room 6 or room “m”).

V.1 Pompeii. Vicolo di Cecilio Giocondo, looking north. V.2.a (side wall)

V.1 Pompeii, on left. Vicolo di Cecilio Giocondo, looking north. V.2.1/a (side wall), on right.

Graffito found on the wall between V.2.a and V.2.b, was

Iucundus cunum lingit Rusticae [CIL IV 4264]

See Varone, A., 2002. Erotica Pompeiana: Love Inscriptions on the Walls of Pompeii, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider. (p.80)