Pompeii. Fountain outside VI.16.28 with relief of Oceanus or of a lion-griffin.

On Vicolo dei Vettii. Excavated 1905.

Fountain outside VI.16.28 on Vicolo dei Vettii. December 2018.

Looking south to fountain outside VI.16.28, on left. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

Fountain outside VI.16.28 on Vicolo dei Vettii. December 2018. Looking east. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

Fountain outside VI.16.28 on Vicolo dei Vettii. May 2005. Looking north.

Looking north-east towards fountain outside VI.16.28 on east side of Vicolo dei Vettii. December 2005.

Looking south-east across fountain outside VI.16.28 on Vicolo dei Vettii. December 2005.

Looking south-east across fountain outside VI.16.28 on Vicolo dei Vettii, Pompeii. 1968.

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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Fountain outside VI.16.28 on Vicolo dei Vettii. December 2018.

Looking east. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

Fountain outside VI.16.28 on Vicolo dei Vettii. December 2005.

According to Eschebach this is a relief of Oceanus or of a lion-griffin.

See Eschebach H. Die öffentlichen Laufbrunnen Pompejis: Pompeii Herculaneum Stabiae. Amici di Pompei, I, 1983, p. 13.