IX.9.e Pompeii. House. Rear entrance of IX.9.12.

Linked to IX.9.13. Excavated 1888.

IX.9.e/12/13 Room Plan

IX.9.e Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance doorway.

Above the doorway, the holes for the beams and frame supporting the balcony can be seen.

IX.9.e Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance with niche on north side.

IX.9.e Pompeii. March 2009. Plaster on front exterior wall, on south side from entrance doorway.

Exterior plastered and painted street wall between IX.9.e and IX.9.f. 

Found painted between IX.9.e and f, were –

Celer      [CIL IV 3806]
Celer      [CIL IV 3812]

See Della Corte, M., 1965.  Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.166)

IX.9.e Pompeii. March 2009. North side of entrance doorway, with niche.

According to Della Corte, an electoral programme was found here, between the entrances of IX.9.d and e, for another local candidate Ti. Claudio Vero.

It was yet another notice written by Aemilius Celer –

Scr(ipsit) Aemilius Celer    [CIL IV 3820]

See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.167)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), it read –

Ti(berium)  Claudium

/ Verum

scr(ibsit)

Aemilius  Celer

[d(uum)v(irum)]  i(ure)  d(icundo)  o(ramus)  v(os)  f(aciatis)  vicini  Himer[        [CIL IV 3820]

According to Cooley, a translation of graffito CIL IV 3820, was -

Neighbours beg you to elect Tiberius Claudius Verus (duumvir) with judicial power. Aemilius Celer wrote this.   [CIL IV 3820]

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge. (p.126)

IX.9.e Pompeii. March 2009. Niche on north side of doorway.

IX.9.e Pompeii. March 2009. Remains of painted red flowers in niche.

IX.9.e Pompeii. March 2009. Rear wall of niche, with remains of painting.

IX.9.e Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway, looking east.

According to NdS, the entrance doorway had a lava threshold.

The doorway led into a long passageway with a beaten floor, the walls were covered with rustic white plaster.

The lower section of the walls was covered by a high red zoccolo which was painted with yellow bands to separate it into panels.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1891, p.255.

IX.9.e Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance fauces, looking east towards linked doorway to IX.9.12

IX.9.e Pompeii. March 2009. Room 19, doorway to rustic room or cubiculum.

According to NdS, on the right wall of the entrance corridor, next to the doorway to the rustic room, graffiti was found on the red plastered zoccolo.

It read

P-AE

This most probably referred to P. Ae(milius) for the number of times that this name occurred on the walls of the houses and this small roadway.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1891, p.255.

IX.9.e Pompeii. March 2009. Room 19, south-east corner.

IX.9.e Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 18, cubiculum.

Looking towards the east wall with window onto room 17, small atrium.

On the left is the doorway into room 17.

According to NdS, the walls of the cubiculum were decorated in the same way as the entrance corridor, and traces of fire and burning were found on them.

It was clearly a cubiculum as could be seen by the grooves for the bed.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1891, p.255.

IX.9.e Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, south wall of cubiculum. 

IX.9.e Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, looking south-east across small atrium containing stairs to upper floor.

According to NdS, this was a covered atrium also with a beaten floor, and walls of rustic white plaster with a high red zoccolo.

The plaster was lacking on the north wall, against which was the masonry beginnings of a staircase.

This staircase would have continued in wood and led to the rooms above the entrance corridor and two rooms leading from it (rooms 18 and 19).

It would also have led to the balcony which stuck out into the roadway above the entrance doorway.

This had now fallen, leaving no other trace than the holes in the outer wall for holding the frame.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1891, p.255.

IX.9.e Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, square niche in south wall of atrium.

IX.9.e Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, remains of stairs against north wall of atrium.

IX.9.e Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, east wall of atrium, with doorway and window to room 16, the light-yard.

IX.9.e Pompeii. March 2009. Room 16, light-yard.

Looking east towards doorway to room 15, the kitchen, and window of triclinium, room 13 (see IX.9.12 for more photos).

IX.9.e Pompeii. March 2009. Room 16, altar in light-yard

IX.9.e Pompeii. March 2009. Room 16, altar in light-yard

IX.9.e Pompeii. May 2005. Room 16, altar in light-yard

IX.9.e Pompeii. March 2009. Room 16, south-west corner, with window to small atrium.

IX.9.e Pompeii. March 2009. Room 16, light yard, south-west corner. Looking west.

According to Boyce, in the small open courtyard in the centre of the house, a sacrarium was formed.

It was constructed by building a small wall parallel to the south wall, and then covering the enclosure with a sloping roof.

At the east end of this enclosure stood a small altar of tufa, originally coated with stucco.

The inside surface of the north wall was decorated with a white background and a drawing.

This was of an aedicula and within it a male figure, standing, clad in a yellow tunic.

The south wall was also covered with white stucco, the west wall with a coarser variety.

A female head of terracotta was found near the sacellum, apparently part of a statue.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1889, 136; 1891, 255.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.92, no.464 )

IX.9.e/12/13 Room Plan