V.3.10 Pompeii. House. Excavated 1901.

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V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of south portico of garden area. 

V.3.10 Pompeii. May 2005. South side of south portico of garden area. 

Eight-sided column, originally painted red, supporting the south portico.

In the background, the doorway to large triclinium.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Rectangular niche or cupboard on the north wall on the west side of the tablinum.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north-west from passageway, through open end of small room with niche at rear of the tablinum.

The eight-sided column supported the portico, and originally was painted red.

The west wall of the garden was painted in a checkerboard style in white, red, yellow and blue. 

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas, p 114.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of south portico in the garden area. 

V.3.10 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking south in south portico of garden area. 

Eight-sided column, originally painted red, supporting the south portico.

In the background, the doorway to large triclinium.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to large triclinium. Looking south.

On the left side of this doorway, at the end of the corridor from the atrium, would be the area marked “l or L” on the plan.

The walls of this space were painted with a black zoccolo, the lower zone of the wall was red and the upper was white with two painted birds.

One was eating a cherry and the other a plum.

According to NdS,

“The flooring of the triclinium was of the same opus signinum as the peristyle but was made with more care in front of the doorway and done with better arrangement of the stones that adorned it.

The triclinium had beautiful walls divided into alternative panels of red and black separated by small columns.

On high hung beautiful painted garlands of flowers and fruit, particularly beautiful were the bunches of white and red grapes in the black panel of the north wall. Above another part, divided in red and black panels, placed in the manner that the red corresponded to the black of the lower zone and vice-versa, were painted ducks, fruits, etc.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1902, (p.204).

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to large triclinium and west wall.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of triclinium showing three large painted panels, black in the centre and red on either side.

The zoccolo was painted with garden plants.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Painted plants described as blue iris and cactus on west wall of triclinium.

See Warscher, T., 1925. Pompeji: Ein Führer durch die Ruinen. Berlin und Leipzig: de Gruyter, (p 125).

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Painted plants described as blue iris and cactus on west wall of triclinium.

See Warscher, T., 1925. Pompeji: Ein Führer durch die Ruinen. Berlin und Leipzig: de Gruyter, (p 125).

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. South wall of triclinium.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. East wall of triclinium. 

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall of triclinium with doorway leading towards garden area. 

According to NdS, particularly beautiful were the painted bunches of red and white grapes hanging from a garland on the black panel at the centre of this wall.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north along raised planting bed in garden area.

V.3.10 Pompeii. 1964.

Looking north to raised planting bed and site of east portico in garden area.

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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V.3.10 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking towards west wall and narrow raised planting bed built against the wall of the garden.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 690.

V.3.10 Pompeii. 1903. Looking north along raised narrow planting bed in garden area.

Photo by Esther Boise Van Deman (c) American Academy in Rome. VD_Archive_Ph_215.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Narrow raised planting bed built against the rear wall of the garden.

V.3.10 Pompeii. 1964.

Looking north along raised planting bed and site of east portico in garden area.

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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V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north across east portico.

V.3.10 Pompeii. 1964. Looking north across east portico. 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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V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. North end of east portico.

V.3.10 Pompeii. 1964. Looking towards north-east corner. 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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V.3.10 Pompeii. 1964.

Window in east wall, and north-east corner. 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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V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall of east portico.

According to NdS, on the zoccolo of the north wall of the peristyle was written

And then below -

V Idu(s) / V Idus Octobres natal(is)   [CIL IV 6721]

See Notizie degli Scavi, 1902, (p.204)

According to Hunink, it read –

V IDV(S)

V IDVS OCTOBRES NATAL(IS)

It translated as 11^th October/ 11^th October, birthday. (CIL IV. 6721).

See Hunink, V. (2011). Glucklich ist dieser Ort! 1000 Graffiti aus Pompeji (p.127)

V.3.10 Pompeii. 1964. North wall of east portico. 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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V.3.10 Pompeii. 14th September 1901. Bust of bacchante found in north-east corner of small garden.

According to Sogliano, a monopodium was found, made of two pillars, the one behind the other, and surmounted by a small little shelf of Bardiglio marble, on which was set a pretty head of a Bacchante.

It was of antique yellow marble, crowned with ivy with berries, adorned with necklace, in which wraps a snake.

Long curls fall over the shoulders, with eyes of glass paste (now non-existent) outlined in black.

Smiling with a slightly open mouth, which shows the top row of the teeth.
It is a good Roman work.

Of the two pillars, the front is of African marble; the back, broken into three pieces, is of coral rubble.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1901, p. 403, fig.3.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of garden area, looking south.

V.3.10 Pompeii. October 2023. Pentelic marble votive relief

Found on 12th September 1901, in the small garden, not in situ but leaning against the western wall. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

On display in “L’altra MANN” exhibition, October 2023, at Naples Archaeological Museum, inv. 126174.

V.3.10 Pompeii. October 2023.

Descriptive card for inv. 126174. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

V.3.10 Pompeii. 2016/2017. Marble relief showing a goddess, most likely Aphrodite, enthroned on a rock. (Late 5^th-Early 4^th Century BC).

Found on 12th September 1901, in the small garden, not in situ but leaning against the western wall. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

V.3.10 Pompeii. 1984. Marble relief showing a goddess, most likely Aphrodite, enthroned on a rock.

Found on 12th September 1901, in the small garden, not in situ but leaning against the western wall.

Marble tablet 475mm high, 600mm wide and 45mm thick.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1901, p. 400f.

On the left, in front of the goddess, is a group of two women, a man, three children and an altar servant leading a sacrificial ram.

Now in the Naples Archaeological Museum, inventory number 126174.

According to Kraus, this relief was found leaning against a wall in the small garden, perhaps waiting to be set into the wall.

See Kraus T. and von Matt L., 1975. Pompeii and Herculaneum: Living cities of the dead. New York: Abrams. (p.193, fig 266

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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V.3.10 Pompeii. 1901. Charcoal inscription on a precisely detached piece of upper part of west wall of small garden.

According to Sogliano, it is a brief record of some edibles such as

cepa, pu(leium?), faba, (h)ordi semente.

onion, pennyroyal?/chives?, bean, barley seed.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1901, p. 402-3.

The Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) records:

IIIII IIII Cepa

Fort(un)ato

p(ondo) V

faba M VII VII

(h)ord(e)i semente(m)

m(odios) VII VI      [CIL IV 6722]

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. North-west corner of garden area, with painted plants at the base of the west wall.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. North-west corner of garden area, with painted plants at the base of the west wall.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Base of east wall in east portico.

V.3.10 Pompeii, on left. May 2005.                    North end of Vicolo di M. L. Frontone.               V.4, on right.

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