VII.6.37 Pompeii. Rear entrance of VII .6.30.
Excavated 1868, 1910. Bombed in 1943.
According to Garcia y Garcia Region VII, Insula VI was one of the insulae most devastated over the years since its excavation.
He calls it the “Cinderella” of Pompeii. Between the years 1759 and 1762 it was vandalised and stripped by the Bourbons, then re-interred.
Then came the slow and non-systematic uncovering again before the final destruction in September 1943.
The area was ignored and abandoned during the years following the war, which reduced the insula to a heap of bricks and masonry.
See Garcia y Garcia,
L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.102).
VII.6.37 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking south-east towards entrance doorway.
According to NdS, to the right of the entrance numbered XXXVII, a neck of a terracotta amphora was found on which was seen the inscription written in small black letters –
VII.6.37 Pompeii. Inscription on neck of amphora.
See Notizie
degli Scavi, 1910, p.439.
VII.6.37 Pompeii. June 2012. Looking east towards entrance doorway.
VII.6.37 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east towards entrance.
VII.6.37 Pompeii. Vicolo del Farmacista. September 1915. Watercolour by Luigi Bazzani.
Looking south from between VII.6.38 and 37, on left, towards junction with Vicolo dei Soprastanti.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inv. no. 139431.
According to NdS,
To the left
of the entrance doorway, was found across the roadway, a large parallelepiped
of Sarno stone, which did not reach to the pavement opposite, but rested with
the extremity projecting onto a stone of lava. This was used to facilitate the
passage onto the pavement opposite, and at the same time did not impede the
rainwater.
The ground was paved;
and almost in the entire left half of the eastern side of the vicolo, there are
no doorways and the wall preserved remains of a high signinum zoccolo/plinth.
See Notizie
degli Scavi di Antichità, 1910, (p.438).