VI.15.1 Pompeii. House of the
Vettii or Casa dei Vettii or Domus Vettiorum.
Excavated 1894-1895. Linked to VI.15.27.
In Notizie degli Scavi, prior to January 1897, this house was described as being in Insula 12 of Reg. VI, afterwards it was changed to Insula 15 of Reg. VI.
Service area with atriolo "v" with lararium, kitchen "w", and rooms "x", "x' ", "y", "z".
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Part 2 VI.15.1 Plan
VI.15.1 Pompeii. January 2023.
Household lararium on west wall in “services area”.
Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.
VI.15.1 Pompeii. March 2023.
Household lararium on west wall in service area. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.15.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Household lararium on west wall in service area.
VI.15.1 Pompeii. March 2023. Aedicula above lararium painting. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.15.1 Pompeii. March 2023. Detail of stucco decoration on aedicula above painted lararium. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
Detail of stucco decoration on north end of aedicula against west wall in services area. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.15.1 Pompeii. March 2023. Lararium painting below aedicula. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.15.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Household lararium in service area.
Painting of serpent, (Agathodemone), garlands and three figures.
The household gods (Lares) are either side of the guardian spirit (genius loci) of the house.
According to Boyce, this was located in VI.15.2.
He described it as one of the largest and finest lararia in Pompeii, consisting of a lararium painting within an aedicula.
The back wall within the aedicula is filled with a lararium painting on a white background.
In the centre stands the Genius, young and unbearded.
On each side of him stands a wreathed Lar, holding rhyton and situla.
The lower end of each rhyton has the form of a forepart of a goat.
In the lower zone of the same panel a crested and bearded serpent with brown back and yellow belly glides through plants towards the altar.
This painted square altar is shown at the right edge of the panel.
On the altar are an egg and some fruits.
Across the top of the panel are three garlands.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.54, no.211, and Pl.30,2)
See Giacobello,
F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e
culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni. (p.180-81)
See Fröhlich, T.,
1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den
Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (p.279, L70).
VI.15.1 Pompeii. March 2023. Detail from lararium painting. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.15.1 Pompeii. March 2023.
Detail of wreathed Lar holding rhyton and situla, from south end of lararium painting.
Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
Detail from
lararium painting of wreathed Lar with rhyton, from south end of lararium
painting. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.15.1 Pompeii. March 2023.
Detail of the Genius from centre of lararium painting. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.15.1 Pompeii. October 2023. Detail of the Genius from centre
of lararium painting. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VI.15.1 Pompeii. March 2023.
Detail of wreathed Lar holding rhyton and situla, from north end of lararium painting.
Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
Detail from
lararium painting of wreathed Lar with rhyton, from north end of lararium
painting. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.15.1 Pompeii. August 2023.
Detail from lararium painting of painted rhyton, from north
end of lararium painting. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.15.1 Pompeii. March 2023. Serpent on lararium painting gliding through plants towards altar. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.15.1 Pompeii. October 2023. Detail of serpent on lararium
painting gliding through plants towards altar. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VI.15.1 Pompeii. March 2023. Detail of stucco below lararium painting. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.15.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Household Lararium in service area.
VI.15.1 Pompeii. October 1992. Household lararium.
Photo by Louis Méric
courtesy of Jean-Jacques Méric.
VI.15.1
Pompeii. 4th April 1980, pre-earthquake.
Household lararium. Photo courtesy of Tina Gilbert.
VI.15.1 Pompeii. January 1977. Household lararium. Photo courtesy of David Hingston.
VI.15.1 Pompeii. 1964. Household lararium. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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VI.15.1 Pompeii. 1959. Household lararium. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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VI.15.1 Pompeii. 1957. Household lararium. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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VI.15.1 Pompeii. 1895
watercolour by Luigi Bazzani of household lararium.
Photo © Victoria and
Albert Museum. Inventory number 9-1898.
VI.15.1 Pompeii. Undated painting by Pierre Gusman. Household lararium.
(XXVIII.
1° Laraire de la maison des Vettii (Région VI, 15). Quatrième style.)
See
Gusman P., 1924. La Décoration Murale de Pompei. Paris : Morancé, pl.
XXVIII,1.
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