VII.15.12 Pompeii. House of Verus, with servants Restituta and Secundus.

Shown as number 11 on Eschebach plan, which is correct according to Garcia y Garcia.

Linked to VII.15.11. Excavated 1859, 1873.

According to Eschebach –

11 was the posticum to the garden area, barred window above.

12 was the entrance doorway without fauces into a large two-storey vestibule with a large window to the east (left), with a cella ostiaria and latrine on the west (right).

In the rear right was a dormitory with entrance divided by pillars (against the wall of which there was a staircase to the upper floor, from the vestibule).

A long corridor led to the transverse atrium testudinatum (on the left was a triclinium, on the right a cubiculum).

In the middle of the rear wall, doorway to the two-legged corridor with light- yard/garden area on the left with (flower?) bed and gutter, on the right stairs to the upper floor, lararium, cella penaria and kitchen.

See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.344).

VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking south-east on Vicolo dei Soprastanti, towards entrance doorway, on right.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Exterior wall on east side of entrance doorway, with Vicolo del Gallo, on left.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Detail of painted stucco on east side of entrance doorway at junction with Vicolo del Gallo, on left.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018.

Exterior wall in Vicolo del Gallo, looking into vestibule through large window. Looking south-west.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Detail of exterior wall in Vicolo del Gallo. Looking south-west.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018.

Detail of remaining stucco on exterior wall on south side of window in Vicolo del Gallo.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking north-west towards window in Vicolo del Gallo.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking south to entrance doorway.

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According to Garcia y Garcia, the stucco on the external front façade of this small house had been conserved.

The plaster suffered damage and fell in 1943 because of the bomb that damaged this nearby house, and the following one.

See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.129).

VII.15.12 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance doorway to large vestibule, looking south.

VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking south through entrance doorway.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018.

Looking north across entrance vestibule, towards doorway to Vicolo dei Soprastanti, and across to Vicolo dei Farmacista.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. North-east corner of entrance vestibule, looking towards north wall with stucco.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking east in area of large vestibule towards a large window.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. East wall in north-east corner.

(The windows in the upper wall belong to the side wall of VII.7.18 in Vicolo del Gallo, see photo below).

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VII.7.18 Pompeii. March 2018. Upper exterior west side wall, from large window in VII.15.12. Looking east.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking south across vestibule towards corridor to atrium and rear of house.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Recess/niche in south wall of entrance vestibule.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. West wall of entrance vestibule, with entrance doorway, on right.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking south across vestibule towards corridor to atrium and rear of house.

VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking west across entrance vestibule with doorway to corridor, on left, and doorway to cubiculum.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking south to corridor to rear rooms. On the right is the doorway to a cubiculum.

VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking south through doorway to cubiculum on west side of corridor to rear rooms.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking south along corridor to rear.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Detail of west wall of corridor, at north end near vestibule.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking north to corridor to front of house from garden area.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018.

Looking north-east from garden area, across to room described by Boyce as “central atrium-like room”.

According to Eschebach, it was a triclinium.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking north.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking towards north wall.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking east across room described as “central atrium-like room” or triclinium.

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According to Boyce, in the east wall of the central atrium-like room was a shallow, rectangular niche of unusual proportions.

Its walls were coated with yellow stucco and decorated with red stripes; the Bull. Inst. referred to it as “forse un larario”.

See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1874, 71.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.72, no.333).

VII.15.12 Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking towards “the east wall of the central atrium-like room”, according to Boyce, above. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VII.15.12 Pompeii. December 2018.

Shallow rectangular niche in east wall of atrium, as described by Boyce, above, or triclinium. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Detail of rectangular niche in east wall.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii but shown as VII.15.9 on photo. Pre-1937-39.

Looking towards rectangular niche in east wall of the atrium/or triclinium.

The doorway, on the right, would be VII.15.11, the garden entrance.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1900.

VII.15.12/11 Pompeii. March 2018. Rear side entrance doorway at VII.15.11 to Vicolo del Gallo.

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VII.15.12/11 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking east to wall in garden area with doorway at VII.15.11, onto Vicolo del Gallo.

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VII.15.12/11 Pompeii. March 2018.

Looking north-west to steps to upper floor, from garden area.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking west to steps to upper floor.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking south-west from garden area.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Detail of west wall with holes for upper floor support beams, in room on west side of garden area.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018.

Looking east along south wall, from room on west side of garden area.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking south to remaining painted stucco in room on west side of atrium/triclinium.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking north along corridor towards entrance doorway.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018. Threshold to corridor, looking north.

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VII.15.12 Pompeii. March 2018.

Looking north from entrance doorway to Vicolo dei Soprastanti, and across to Vicolo dei Farmacista.

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Fountain between VII.15.12 Pompeii and VII.15.13. September 2005.