VII .2.20 Pompeii. Casa di N. Popidius Priscus
or Casa dei Marmi.
Linked to VII .2.21, VII .2.41 and VII .2.41a.
Excavated 1833, 1845 and 1863-4.
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VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, doorway to cubiculum on east side of atrium.
VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, east wall of cubiculum.
VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, cubiculum showing small door to room 5, in south-west corner.
VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 5, cubiculum.
VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 5, east wall of cubiculum.
VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 5, cubiculum, with doorway to room 6 in south wall. Looking south.
VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, with small door to room 5 in north wall. Looking north.
VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, north wall of ala.
VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 6, ala, and east wall.
VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, south wall of ala.
VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 7, oecus, in south-east corner of room 1. Looking south.
VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, south-east corner of oecus.
VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, north part of double tablinum. Looking south-west through to south part, room 13.
VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, west wall of north part of double tablinum.
VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, east wall of north part of double tablinum.
VII.2.20 Pompeii. c.1930.
Looking north from emblema in centre of tablinum O1, (note: our room 8) across atrium towards entrance doorway.
According to Blake –
The atrium was later than the tablinum and belonged to the period of wall decorations in the Second Style. (p.61).
A similar cancellum, (in colours) though much restored, forms an attractive centre for the tablinum.
The pavements of this house fall into two groups.
Those of the tablinum and the room behind it, and those to the right and left of these two are of finer tesserae (0.05cms to 0.08cms by 0.05cms to 0.06cms deep) and seems to be at a slightly lower level than the atrium. And yet the lithostroton of the atrium, with its pieces of coloured limestone (such pieces of marble as occur are in patches), and the alae with their thresholds of the Greek meander in which every square is different, cannot be later than the period of Augustus. Walls of a later transformation actually rest on the meander borders, (p.74).
See Blake, M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p.61 & 74, & pl.17, tav.4).
Mosaic, on right, location now yet discovered.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 368.
VII.2.20 Pompeii. Emblema in centre of tablinum O1 as shown
on TESS database. (Note: our room
8).
Photo Massara,
Daniela, Casa di Popidius Priscus, Regio VII 2,20-40, tablino "o1",
tessellato con motivo a cancello.
In TESS – scheda 14313 (http://tess.beniculturali.unipd.it/web/scheda/?recid=14313 ), 2013
Use CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 IT https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/it/
See Sampaolo, V.,
1996. VII 2.20.40 Casa di Popidius Priscus, in Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. VI. Roma: Istituto della
enciclopedia italiana, pp. 633-634, figg. 37-38.
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