IX.2.15 Pompeii. Garden entrance of IX.2.16. Excavated c.1867-1876.

See IX.2.16 for photographs of the garden.

IX.2.15 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance on Vicolo di Balbo.

According to Fiorelli, somewhere near this doorway, between IX.2.15 and IX.2.16, the following graffiti was found:

CN . HELVIVM . SABINVM . AED . BALBVS . FECIT    [CIL IV 935d]

A . VETTIVM . CAPRASIVM . FELICEM . AED . D . R . P . OVF   

A . VETTIVM . CAPRASIVM

                   FELICEM . AED . BALBE . ROGAMVS    [CIL IV 935i]

apart from many other names, also found was the graffito:

AMPLIATII

INVICTII  VALE    [CIL IV 2355]

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p. 142).

IX.2.15 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Looking east along facade, from doorway, on left. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.

See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.2. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.46.), p. 106.

IX.2.15 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.

Two windows of an unusual shape, on west side of doorway, giving light from Vicolo into room in south-west corner of IX.2.15/16.

See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.2. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.47.), p. 108.

IX.2.15 Pompeii. May 2005. Interior of garden doorway to Vicolo di Balbo.

IX.2.15 Pompeii. May 2005. Taken through blocked doorway.