VI.16.28 Pompeii. House of Coponii or Casa
della Caccia di Tori.
Excavated 1904.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to rooms G and H.
According to NdS, to the side of the tablinum were two rather narrow rooms, with lava threshold and showed remains of wood towards the atrium.
The doorway on the left, which preserved in the threshold the two iron hinges, led into room G, which was a small rustic room.
Its floor was made of cocciopesto, and had rough plaster on the walls, except on the south wall which formed a continuation from the atrium.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908,
(p.277)
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room G, small room or cupboard, looking north.
According to NdS, in the north-east corner was a low masonry base.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room G, east wall with down pipe.
According to Hobson, there are three down-pipes in this property, two of which may be associated with upper floor latrines.
See Hobson, B. 2009. Pompeii, Latrines and Down Pipes. Oxford, Hadrian Books, (p.290, 294-5)
According to NdS, in the east wall there was a terracotta down-pipe descending from the upper floor.
In the height of the north wall, there were holes for supporting the beams of an upper mezzanine.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908,
(p.278)
VI.16.28 Pompeii. July 2008.
Room G, north-east corner with downpipe. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room H, looking east.
According to NdS, room G communicated with another small room H.
Room H had a floor of opus signinum and walls with painted decorations, best preserved on the north wall.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room H, north wall.
According to NdS, the decoration on this wall was the best preserved.
The principle space was occupied by three major panels, yellow in the centre, with red on either side.
There was no central painting exhibited in the middle.
The frieze rather faded carried also panels of various colours, and the dado had a blackish background.
In the height of the north wall was a bull’s eye partly walled by the ancients.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908,
(p.278-9)
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room H, west wall
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room H, north-west corner with fallen painted plaster from wall.
VI.16.28 Pompeii.
March 2009. Room C, atrium.
Looking across site of impluvium (a) and round table (c) to south wall.
According to NdS, on the south wall of the atrium were the remains of a low brick hearth (e).
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908,
(p.271).
VI.16.28 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking east across atrium C from entrance.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking east from entrance towards room F, tablinum.
According to NdS, the very wide doorway to the tablinum was somewhat elevated above the atrium.
Its floor was opus signinum. On the eastern and northern walls mediocre paintings were preserved.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908,
(p.273)
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room F, south wall of tablinum.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room F, tablinum, looking south-east.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. May 2010. Room F, upper east wall of tablinum.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room F, east wall.
According to NdS, the east wall was divided into three large panels, the central panel was green and with red side panels.
The dado was divided into rectangular panels, in correspondence with the large panels above.
On the dado on the east wall, the middle panel was black and the purple/blue on the side panels.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908,
(p.273)
VI.16.28 Pompeii. May 2010. Room F, east wall of tablinum.
According to NdS, the picture in the centre of the east wall was very faded, and there was not much to distinguish the subject.
On the left, under a tree, there seemed to be a naked figure.
Straight ahead was a young male nude playing the double flute.
Far away to the right, under a type of pyramid steps, was a standing human figure, painted in red (Priapus?).
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908,
(p.273)
According to PPP, this wall had a central wall painting of Marsyas and the nymphs.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p.368).
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room F, north wall, showing remains of red, yellow and green panels.
According to NdS, the wall was divided into five parts, the central panel was green, the two either side of it were yellow, and the two at the ends were red.
The central panel had a painting and was separated from the side panels by two slender columns.
The panels of the north wall were divided by simple blackish bands.
The upper zone had a white background and preserved a small part of the architectural decoration, and was of the third style.
The dado had a red zone in correspondence with the central panel, and two black in correspondence with the four large side panels.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908,
(p.273-4)
According to PPP, in the centre of this wall was a painting of the Hunt of the Bulls, from which the house was also named.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p.368).
VI.16.28 Pompeii. 1908. Room F, north wall, painting of the Hunt of the Bulls.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908,
p. 274, fig. 2.
According to NdS, the central painting on the north wall was the same size as that on the eastern wall.
The painting was better preserved and here one could see a bull galloping to the left with elevated front legs.
A man with brown complexion and short tunic was trying to hit him with a spear, which he held in his right hand.
Beneath the legs of the man was the body of another bull.
Somewhat more to the right of the picture, another man was watching the group.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908,
(p.273-4).
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room F, upper north wall.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. 1908. Room F, tablinum, some of the finds from the tablinum.
A pair of glass cups, mould-blown, with formal decoration in relief and each with two handles.
A terracotta statuette of Venus sitting on a lion. A terracotta statuette of a Lar lying on a bed.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. One glass cup is Inventory number 133273.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908,
p. 276-8, figs 4, 4a, 5 and 6.
See Ward Perkins, J. and Claridge A., 1976. Pompeii AD 79. London: Westerham. (No. 116)
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room F, floor of tablinum.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. Pre-1938. Room F, detail of flooring in tablinum.
See Pernice,
E. 1938. Pavimente und Figürliche
Mosaiken: Die Hellenistische Kunst in Pompeji, Band VI.
Berlin: de Gruyter, Taf. 48,6.
According to PPM -
The floor of cocciopesto was decorated with white stones.
In the centre of the floor was a square bordered by two lines of white stones, set around a circle which contained a square formed by two crossing rectangles cut by transversal lines.
See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p.935)