VI.16.7
Pompeii. Casa degli Amorini Dorati or House of the Golden Cupids
or Domus Cn. Poppaei Habiti or
House of Gnaeus Poppaeus Habitus.
Excavated 1903-5. Conservation
2015/16.
Quick Outline
This page has been created to give a “taster” of the main rooms and areas of the beautiful and interesting House of the Golden Cupids.
Detail
If you are then interested to see the house in more detail, the rooms are shown in greater detail in the subsequent parts.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. July 2011. Looking west to entrance doorway on Via del Vesuvio. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking west along south wall of
entrance A, corridor/fauces towards atrium B.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking towards north-east
side of atrium B, with doorways to rooms C, A and D.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2010. Doorway to room C, on north side of entrance, looking east.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking towards north-west corner
of cubiculum C.
In this room is a First style denticulated cornice and the
faded remains of wall painting of Leda and the swan.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Doorway to room D, cubiculum, on south side of entrance corridor.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Cubiculum D, looking towards east wall.
In this room is a painting of Mercury with winged ankles and caduceus.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Tablinum E, looking west through
doorway from atrium B.
In this room are the remains of a painting of Paris and Helen at Sparta.
In the centre of the floor is a large square mosaic panel
with a geometric pattern with coloured elements
The main threshold has twisting mosaic borders with eight white
mosaic squares with a coloured motif in each.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Tablinum E, north-west corner
with central square geometric mosaic.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Exedra G, looking east from east
portico.
In this room are paintings of Thetis in the workshop of Hephaestus, Jason, with one sandal only, stepping in front of Pelias, and Achilles with Briseis and Patroclus in his tent
In the centre of the mosaic floor is a large square mosaic
with a circular geometric pattern and plants in each corner.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2016. Room F, looking west across peristyle garden from east portico.
In the centre is a marble pool and around the garden were several statues. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. December 2018.
Room F, looking south from east portico towards lararium in south-east corner of peristyle.
The shrine was dedicated to the cult of the Egyptian deities.
On one wall are paintings of objects of the cult of Isis including a sistrum (rattle) and a cobra.
On the other wall is Isis
in the centre wearing a red and black sash and holding a sistrum.
Anubis is dressed
in red. A small figure between Isis and Anubis is possibly Harpocrates.
Serapis or Osiris
is dressed in white with the horn of plenty in his left hand and a sistrum in
his right.
At the bottom of each wall is a snake approaching a central round altar.
Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking east along south portico towards
lararium from doorway into room N, on right.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Doorway to room N in south wall
of portico in south-west corner.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Room N, looking towards
south-east corner.
In this room are painted a number of portraits, candelabra with
birds and plants, jugs, cups and statues, griffins and other creatures.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Room N, looking south along west wall.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking towards south-west corner
of portico, with doorway to room Q, in centre.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Room Q, looking west through
doorway from west portico.
In this room can be seen paintings of flying figures carrying a
number of objects on the walls and various plants at floor level.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. March 2019. Room Q, looking west along south wall
from doorway.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. March 2019. Room Q, looking west along north wall
from doorway.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking south-west across
garden towards large triclinium O, from north portico.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Triclinium O, looking west from
portico towards doorway.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. March 2019. Triclinium O, looking east towards
west portico and peristyle.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking south-east across room F, west portico towards peristyle.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015.
Looking south-west from north portico towards doorway to room O,
in centre, and room R, on right.
The portico floor has a framework of small geometric mosaic lines
with pieces of marble inserted in rows.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Room R, looking west through
doorway from west portico.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Room R, looking towards south
wall from doorway.
The room has paintings of Diana and Actaeon, Leda and the swan, Venus fishing, several portraits and numerous other objects.
At the base of the wall several plants are painted.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Room R, looking towards west wall
from doorway.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Room R, looking towards north
wall from doorway.
The room has the remains of a vaulted painted ceiling.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015.
North-west corner of portico, with doorway to services area, at
VI.16.38.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. North portico from north-west
corner, looking east.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015.
Doorway to room M, looking north-west along wall in north portico.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. March 2019. Room M, looking towards north wall.
The floor has a geometric pattern of white mosaics set in to it.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Doorways to rooms L and K, on
north portico.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2016. Room F, north portico, lararium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Room F, north portico, looking north towards lararium.
Bronze statuettes of Mercury, Juno, Jupiter, Minerva and two Lares and a bronze jug were found on the two shelves
The lararium podium is painted to represent red and yellow
marble with a darker circle in front.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015.
Room I, looking north through doorway.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Cubiculum I, looking north along
west wall.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Cubiculum I, looking north across
flooring.
There is an alcove
for a wide bed, shown by the pattern of the flooring.
In the flooring, on
the left, may be the site for another narrow bed alcove.
On the walls at the
north end of the room are the sites for four glass medallions on which were the
gilded cupids that gave the house its name.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Cubiculum I, looking north along
east wall.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking south-west across
peristyle garden F, from north-east portico.
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VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Doorway from north-east portico
into atrium B, looking east.
An obsidian mirror is embedded in the plaster at the side of
the doorway.
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