V.3.11 Pompeii. House. Excavated 1902.
V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south across garden.
V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. South wall of the garden, with remains of aedicula shaped fountain niche and biclinium.
V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Remains of aedicula shaped fountain niche, small steps and rectangular pool, below.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 437.
According to Jashemski –
On the south wall of the small garden (excavated in 1902), there was an aedicula-shaped fountain niche with a masonry couch on either side
(l. imus and l. summus, 3.00m). There was a crudely painted garden painting above each couch.
Water, perhaps from a statuette carried away in antiquity which stood in the aedicula, ran down the little steps into the rectangular pool below.
The front of the pool was concave, parallel to the curve of the niche; the back of the pool in front of the water-steps was shaped in the same way.
A jet rose in the centre of the pool. There was a planted area on each side of the pool.
A mask, intended for use as a fountain, was found in a room off the atrium.
Jashemski sources –
Parabeni, N.Sc, (1902), p.276, 371, 372 (the plan opposite p.369 gives the location of the pipes that carried water to the two fountains in the garden);
Thedenat, p.87.
Soprano, p.306, no.27.
Neuerburg, p.122-23, no.24.
Dohl, p.13.
Dwyer, "Oscilla”, p.279, no.83.
Photo by Esther Boise Van Deman (c) American Academy in Rome. VD_Archive_Ph_213.
According to Soprano –
Ubicazione: viridario.
L. summus e l. imus, m.300.
Bibliog. Thedenat,
op. c. p.82, fig. 82; “Not Scavi”, 1902, p. 276 e 372.
Il posto del l.
medius era occupato da un ninfeo.
Tra i letti laterali
c’era una vasca rettangolare dal cui centro si innalzava un getto d’acqua, ed
entrambi i letti laterali erano forniti di piccole conduttore interne per lo
scolo delle acque (Note: In una pianta della casa, riprodutta in “Not.Scavi”
1902, p.312, era indicato il corso delle fistulae che portavano l’acqua alle
due fontane).
Ai lati del ninfeo,
sulla parete di fondo, s’estendeva una figurazione paesistica con un serpente e
un cicogna tra alberi.”
V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. East side of aedicula nymphaeum, site of couch of biclinium.
V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Remains of rectangular pool/basin.
V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. East side of aedicula nymphaeum, site of couch.
Above each couch was a painted garden painting. Nothing remains of these.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas, p 115.
V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. West side of aedicula nymphaeum, site of couch of biclinium.
V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Curved niche of aedicula nymphaeum.
V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Small steps for water to run from a statue in the niche, to the pool below.
V.3.11 Pompeii. May 2005. Aedicula shaped nymphaeum, much overgrown and ruined.
V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room on north side of entrance corridor.
According to NdS, this was probably a small storeroom that also contained the steps to the upper floor.
V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room on north side of entrance corridor.
V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Second room on north side of entrance corridor.
V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance corridor, looking east to the Vicolo di Lucrezio Frontone, and across to V.4.c.
According to NdS,
Preliminary report of excavation carried out during May 1902.
We have almost completely excavated the house at V.3.11, not large nor rich and ransacked in antiquity.
Only in the tablinum and the triclinium were mediocre painting preserved, particularly in the latter with three medallions of heads of bacchantes.
In the garden was a fountain with niche for the statuette, carried away in antiquity, steps or the descending water, and small rectangular basin; at the long side of the basin were two masonry triclinium couches, so that the garden was used as a summer triclinium.
The walls were decorated with trees and birds but in a clumsy way.
Entering into the atrium, found on the left in a cubiculum were several bronze vessels of the usual form, and numerous pendants of enamel, amber, coral, etc., which were combined with some glass jars and were contained in a small box/chest.
In the house in Reg. V that had its doorway opposite
to the one at V.3.11 (therefore V.4.c), I verify that on the 1st
May, an important discovery was made of 4 skeletons with the following objects
–
Large gold bracelet in the shape of facing
serpents;
Two gold rings set with stone;
A pair of earrings;
One aureus of Nero, and two of Domitian;
29 silver coins, silver bronze mirror
The death of the unfortunates would have seemed
to have been from the fire that caused the floor of the upper room, where they
had taken refuge, to collapse, and whose violence had partly burnt their bones
and left traces on the paintings on the walls.
The house, to judge from the part excavated
until now, will not have been very large, nor as beautiful as the one opposite
to it (V.3.11).
However, it had in the tablinum fairly good
paintings showing the four seasons (Autumn completely disappeared, and in the
atrium was a painting of Mercury with purse and caduceus, very similar to the
one existing in the thermopolium V.4.6-7 (see Notizie1899, p. 343) however,
“ours” had a large serpent curled/tangled at his feet.
R.PARIBENI.
See Notizie
degli Scavi, 1902, (p.276).
V.3.11 Pompeii.
Report by Paribeni in Notizie degli Scavi, 1902, (p.276).
V.3.11 Pompeii. W.400. Wall decoration – architectural landscape.
There is no record in PPP of where this painting may have come from.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p.80-81, ref 503110Z01 no precise location)
According to Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1902, landscapes would have been found on the walls of the fauces, tablinum and triclinium.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
V.3.11 Pompeii, according to Warsher. Pre-1937-39. Wall decoration – detail of architectural landscape.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic
Archive. Warsher collection no. 1687.
Notizie degli Scavi, 1902, p.
369-372.
V.3.11 Pompeii. Report in Notizie degli Scavi, 1902, (p.369).
V.3.11 Pompeii.
Report in Notizie degli Scavi, 1902, (p.370).
V.3.11 Pompeii.
Report in Notizie degli Scavi, 1902, (p.371).
V.3.11 Pompeii.
Report in Notizie degli Scavi, 1902, (p.372).
See also
Notizie degli Scavi, 1902, p. 212-3, for “finds in the atrium”.
Notizie degli
Scavi, 1902, p. 274-6,
for “finds”.
Notizie degli
Scavi, 1902, p.369-72,
above.
Notizie degli Scavi, 1902, p. 515, for “finds”.