IX.9.a Pompeii. House. Side entrance of IX.9.2.
Excavated by 1888.
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IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Room “L” vestibule or anteroom. Looking south to stairs to upper floor and recess.
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south to stairs to upper floor and doorway to cubiculum “m” on east side.
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. East wall of cubiculum “m”.
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway in west wall of cubiculum “m”, leading to stairs to upper floor.
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Stairs to upper floor, looking south-west from doorway from cubiculum “m”.
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Stairs to upper floor, looking north-west.
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Stairs to upper floor, looking north at highest level.
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Stairs down, from outside doorway to cubiculum “m”.
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. South-west corner of garden area. Remains of the low wall around the garden, and single tufa column.
The masonry pillar supported the roof of the covered wide west portico.
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north along wide west portico of garden area.
According to Jashemski, the garden had a wide covered passageway on the north and west, supported by stuccoed masonry pillars.
In the south-west corner was a single tufa column.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.246)
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Masonry pillar and floor of wide passageway.
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Looking towards east wall of garden area, “f”.
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Looking towards south-east corner of garden, and windows from cubiculum “i” and vestibule “L”.
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north-east across north-west corner of portico, from west portico.
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west across wide north portico.
IX.9.a Pompeii. May 2003. Looking south-west across wide north portico, towards west wall and niche.
Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Arched niche in west wall, with lararium painting below.
According to NdS, the only decoration that remained from the peristyle walls was the lararium painting on the west wall, under the small niche.
Here the Genius could be seen sacrificing at an altar, a serpent wrapped around the altar, from the right could be seen a Camillus carrying ribbons and a plate, with a knife for sacrificing the pig. The pig was decorated with a large band around its belly
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1888, p. 515.
IX.9.a/2 Pompeii. March 2009.
According to Boyce –
In the west wall of the peristyle is an arched niche (h.0.35, w.0.40, d.0.30, h. above floor 1.27).
The white ground of the back wall of the niche shows faint traces of a painting; in the floor is a hole for the base of a statuette.
The wall below the niche is marked off as a panel by red stripes (h.0.65, w.2.0), and in the panel is the lararium painting.
In the centre stands an altar furnished with an egg, and on the left of it is a serpent coiling amidst plants with red flowers.
On the right of the same altar is the Genius accompanied by camillus and popa.
The Genius is wreathed, wears white tunic with a vertical stripe on the left side (the right side is covered by the toga) and the toga with the broad red band which is visible in the fold which he has drawn over his head, and carries the usual cornucopia and patera; the camillus is wreathed, wears white tunic with two vertical red stripes, and carries in the left hand a shallow dish with unidentified objects represented in it, in his right hand – leaves and fillets; the popa stands farthest to the right, is also wreathed, wears a garment around the lower part of his body, and holds a sacrificial knife in his right hand, while he conducts a hog adorned with a broad red band towards the altar.
His references – Not. Scavi,1888, 515.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus
of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome:
MAAR 14. (p. 90-91, no. 454)
See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni. (IX.9.2:110, p.213, no.110).
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Detail of painting from the niche.
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Site of lararium painting.
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north into room “g”, on north-west side of the garden.
The room was described as opening from the north portico with two doorways of varying widths.
The room was quite spacious and used maybe as a triclinium. It had flooring of crushed brick.
The walls were painted yellow with stucco relief and green painted cornice, divided by narrow bands of white stucco on a red painted background and ornamented with leaves.
Between the panels and the plinth (zoccolo) ran a band of stucco also in relief, imitating coloured marble.
Later this decoration was altered, as could be seen on the plinth of the west wall.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1888, p.515
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north-east across triclinium, room “g”.
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north-east into triclinium “g”, from wide north portico around garden.
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north-west into triclinium “g”, from wide north portico around garden.
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Passageway and doorway on the east side of triclinium, leading to atrium.
IX.9.a Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south across north portico and garden.
Under the portico of the peristyle, at the base of the brick wall that connected the pillars, small piles of construction materials, i.e brick and lime pesto were found.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1888, p.515