I.2.17 Pompeii. House. Excavated 1869.
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I.2.17 Pompeii. September 2010.
Looking south from atrium into corridor, with doorway to room 11 (on the left).
In the centre of the photo, is the doorway into room 10, triclinium. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.17 Pompeii. September 2010.
Looking east from atrium, towards doorway to room 12, (centre) looking into room 13. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking over wall in corridor, looking north-west through doorway in north wall of room 11.
Looking north into room 12, the oecus that led through to room 13, the peristyle garden.
Room 4 is shown in upper left-hand corner, on the north side of room 12.
I.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway into room 12, oecus, looking east to doorway into room 13, peristyle garden.
Warscher writing in her Codex, quoting Mau in Bull. Inst. 1874, p.265, described this as –
“Passiamo adesso
nel peristilio, accessibile per la seconda camera a sinistra dell’atrio.
E desso piuttosto
spazioso ed ha portici verso N e O, il cui tetto era sorretto da due pilastri
messi insieme, sull’angolo, ed un’altro sul lato di N, ma più verso E, per
lasciar libero lo sguardo dal triclinio situato da quella parte.
Verso S e E il
muro del giardino è diviso in scompartimenti intermediati da altri stretti, in
ciascun de’quali è dipinto un candelabro.
Invece gli
scompartimenti grandi sono riempiti della pittura d’un giardino: un cancello,
sormontato in ciascun scompartimento da un’anfora, e dietro di esso un
boschetto con uccelli: a destra e a sinistra Ibis e nel mezzo un faggiano.
I portici ed i
pilastri hanno una decorazione semplici: senza zoccolo vi sono scompartimenti
rossi alternativamente stretti e larghi, alti m. 1,46 divisi da striascie
gialle e contornati da linee bianche.
Quegli stretti
sono abbelliti d’una ghirlanda verticale, mentre fra que’larghi su due troviamo
una ghirlanda attaccata colle due estremità, sul resto qualche animale come
uccelli ecc”.
See Warscher T., 1935. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2. (no.31), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.
(translation: “We go now to the peristyle, accessible by
the second room on the left of the atrium.
It was rather spacious and had porticoes towards the
north and west, whose roof was supported by two pillars linked together on the
corner, and another on the north side, but more towards the east, to leave free
the view from the triclinium situated at that part.
Towards the south and east, the wall of the garden was
divided into compartments, between which were narrow ones, in each of which a
candelabra was painted.
The large compartments instead were filled with a
painting of a garden: a gate, surmounted in each compartment by an amphora, and
behind it a wood with birds: Ibis were to the right and to the left, and in the
middle a pheasant.
The porticoes and pilasters had a simple decoration:
without a zoccolo, there were red alternately narrow and wide compartments,
1,46m high, divided by yellow stripes and surrounded by white lines.
The narrow ones were embellished with a vertical garland,
while between those wide on two were found a garland attached with the two
ends, on the rest some animals, like birds, etc.”)
I.2.17 Pompeii. September 2010.
Looking north in room 12, towards doorway in north wall to room 4. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.17 Pompeii. September 2010.
Looking west in room 12, towards doorway in west wall into atrium. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, looking south-east along south wall of peristyle garden.
I.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, south wall of the peristyle garden, looking south-east.
According to Jashemski, the peristyle garden, excavated in 1873, had a portico on the north and west side.
It was supported by two pillars, one on the north-west corner, the other in the middle of the north side.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.23)
I.2.17 Pompeii. September 2010. Room 13, south wall with detail of shell-like plaster feature. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.17 Pompeii. September 2010. Room 13, south wall with detail of shell-like plaster feature. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, south wall.
I.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, south wall. Remains of stucco shell decoration.
I.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, south wall. Remains of decoration under stucco shell.
I.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009.
Room 13, south-east corner. The east and south walls of the garden were decorated with garden paintings, no longer visible.
I.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, looking towards east wall.
According to Jashemski, built against the east wall was a shrine-like structure, the niche veneered with marble.
The niche contained a marble statuette of Venus, now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inventory number 109608.
The wall behind the statue was painted to represent blue drapery, the ceiling had shell-like fluting.
The east and south walls of the garden were decorated with garden paintings.
The large room (c) on the north had a fine view of the garden.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.23)
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