VI.2.4 Pompeii. Casa di Sallustio or House of Sallust or Domus A. Cossius Libanus.

Excavated 1805 to 1809, 1969 to 1971, 2005 to 2007 and 2010.

Bombed 1943. Restored 1970.

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VI.2.4 Pompeii. June 2010. Looking east along portico towards kitchen. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017. Looking east through doorway into kitchen area.

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VI.2.4 Pompeii. 1852 drawing entitled Kitchen in the House of Actaeon.

See Gell, W. and Gandy, J., 1852. Pompeiana: Third Edition. London: Bohn, p. 107.

According to Gell,

“26 (on Gell’s plan). Kitchen, and privy for the women's apartments.

Of this a view is given as the foregoing head-piece on page 107.

On the right of the way upstairs is the hearth for cooking, separated therefrom by wooden balusters, which do not remain.

On the other side is an arched recess, about three feet deep; a conveniency, according to modern, at least English ideas, most inconveniently situated.

The wood work of the seat is gone: the marks for the hinges, and fastening to the door, may be observed.

It would appear, that in ancient, as in modern Italy and Greece, a proximity between the ultimate receptacle of the aliments and their place of preparation was considered desirable.”

See Gell, W. and Gandy, J., 1852. Pompeiana: Third Edition. London: Bohn, p. 123.

VI.2.4 Pompeii. c.1819 sketch by W. Gell. Looking towards area of “Sallustius or Actaeon’s kitchen”. 

See Gell W & Gandy, J.P: Pompeii published 1819 [Dessins publiés dans l'ouvrage de Sir William Gell et John P. Gandy, Pompeiana: the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompei, 1817-1819], pl. 19.

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VI.2.4 Pompeii. June 2010. Rear entrances at VI.2.30 and VI.2.31. Looking east. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VI.2.4 Pompeii. July 2010. The new owner of the House of Sallust enjoying the garden. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VI.2.4 Pompeii. June 2010. Looking south-west across portico of small garden apartment. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VI.2.4 Pompeii. June 2010.

Looking west towards exedra of small garden apartment, from the kitchen area. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VI.2.31 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west towards small garden across the kitchen area.

VI.2.4 Pompeii. June 2010. Looking north across remains of kitchen room, into portico of small garden apartment, on left.

On the right can be seen the portico of the main peristyle garden. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VI.2.4 Pompeii. June 2010.

Looking north along garden portico, from near remains of kitchen, on left. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VI.2.4.31 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking north-west along rooms on west side of portico of peristyle.

According to Laidlaw –

“Almost all of the structure above the pavement for this corner, both in its original and remodelled forms, was destroyed by the bomb in 1943.”

See Laidlaw, A., and Stella M. S., 2014. The House of Sallust in Pompeii (VI.2.4): JRA 98. Portsmouth Rhode Island. (p.73).

VI.2.4 Pompeii. 1823-28. Room 28, south wall of room with small entrance in the east wall from the rear portico, painting by Felix Duban.

See Album de dessins d'architecture effectués par Félix Duban pendant son pensionnat à la Villa Medicis, entre 1823 et 1828 - Tome 2, Pompéi.

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VI.2.4 Pompeii. Room 28, south wall of room with small entrance in the east wall from the rear portico,

Sketch by P. A. Poirot. July 1826?

See Poirot, P. A., 1826. Carnets de dessins de Pierre-Achille Poirot. Tome 2 : Pompeia, pl. 78.

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VI.2.4 Pompeii. c.1805-9. Room 28, detail from upper south wall by Zahn.

According to Zahn, this was to be found at the top of a wall of a small room on the right of the entrance.

See Zahn, W., 1852-59. Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: III. Berlin: Reimer, Taf. 69.

VI.2.4 Pompeii. May 1823. Drawing of plan of house by Chenavard.

See Chenavard, Antoine-Marie (1787-1883) et al. Voyage d'Italie, croquis Tome 3, pl. 142.

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According to Anne Laidlaw, (2021) –

“It is interesting that he puts the back exit in place of the latrine just beyond the south wall of the back garden. That’s where the exit was restored after the bombing in 1943, after I had excavated the latrine in front of the new exit. And he also shows a stair at the south end of the back portico, which we could never find any evidence for, and which my architect said couldn’t have reached the 2nd storey – not enough space for the space to go that high. But I suppose it might have started as steps and then shifted to a ladder. Chenavard drew this plan 12 years after the Bourbons completed emptying the whole house, and the 1840’s model is pretty complete, so some sort of stair may well have been there (but not shown in the model of 1840).”

6.2.4 Pompeii. Between 1819 and 1832, sketches by William Gell of painted decoration, from House of Actaeon.

See Gell, W. Pompeii unpublished [Dessins de l'édition de 1832 donnant le résultat des fouilles post 1819 (?)] vol II, pl. 82.

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