IX.14.c Pompeii. House. Excavated 1910/11.
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Looking east to the front of the house and the entrance.
Part of the house is now re-buried and it would have extended to approximately where the white pole is.
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Looking east across south side of insula IX.14.
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Looking north-east. According to Spano, the construction of this house was very old.
Its façade was formed entirely from large blocks of Sarno limestone.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1911,
p. 374.
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Looking south-east.
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Looking north.
Site of small unexcavated vicolo, showing the west side of IX.14, and the east rear unexcavated side of IX.10.
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Room 1, entrance corridor or fauces, north wall (left).
The walls of the fauces or entrance corridor were painted with a black plinth, of large decorations likewise black.
The red frieze was divided into rectangles by thin bands. The painting on the north wall was the best preserved.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1911,
p. 374.
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Room 1, entrance corridor or fauces, south wall (right).
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Looking north across Tuscan atrium, room 2 and impluvium (a), rear rooms and garden area, 3.
The atrium formed a rectangle placed transversely across the house in relation to the fauces.
A square impluvium (a) was found, consisting of a simple groove in the floor, which was of opus signinum.
The walls of the atrium had a black lower plinth, with
alternate large red and black decorations, and a red frieze with architectural
motifs.
IX.14.c Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south across room 4 towards wall of fauces room 1. Photographed from roof of IX.14.2/4.
IX.14.c. December 2007. Room 2 atrium (left), room 4 (right) and south wall of fauces, room 1. Looking south from roof of IX.14.2/4.
IX.14.c. December 2007. Looking south, across atrium 2 to doorway of room 7 on the south side.
Photographed from roof of IX.14.2/4.
According to NdS -
to the left of the southern wall of the atrium was a low compartment, which formed the entrance to the large rectangular room, numbered 7.
The concrete floor was painted red.
The walls were decorated with a black plinth, large red decorated rectangles, and yellow frieze.
The east wall had an entrance to a narrow room (numbered 8) in its centre, flanked by two small cupboards.
Both cupboards preserved the traces of wooden shelving and were coated with white plaster.
The base of the side wall of one of the cupboard recesses can be seen (centre) in this photograph.
Room 8 had a similar floor to room 7, as well as similar wall decorations.
Very little of its walls were preserved.
In the top of the east wall was a window overlooking the garden area 3.
IX.14.c Pompeii, 1978.
Atrium 2, Looking towards south-east corner, across atrium 2 to doorway of room 7 on the south side. 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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IX.14.c Pompeii. December 2007.
Looking south across room 4, along the east inside of the front wall. Photographed from roof of IX.14.2/4.
Nearest the camera behind the first wall would be room 4, with darker red plastered south wall.
Behind room 4, would be room 1, the entrance corridor.
Room 4 had a similar wall decoration to room 5, a low black plinth, red decorations and yellow frieze.
Room 4 had a low flat ceiling, shown by the holes for the beams of the floor above, in the west wall.
To the north of room 4 there were masonry stairs that led to the upper floor.
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Room 4, room to north of fauces, with stone staircase to its north.
Wall on west side of insula, showing IX.14.2/4, IX.14.b (blocked entrance in low wall) and north side of IX.14.c.
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Looking east across atrium (room 2), to doorway to room 6 in the north-east corner of the atrium.
According to Spano in NdS, straight ahead and to the left of the entrance were two rectangular decorations on white backgrounds of which nothing much remained, except a garland that formed the cornice above the one on the right.
Spano surmised that perhaps the subject of these paintings may have been religious as garlands were found above the many lararium paintings in Pompeii.
Found on the same wall was part of a layer of fine plaster, which had covered the previous decoration below it.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1911, (p.374).
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Room 5, room to south of fauces 1.
This room had a high-level window and a recess for a bed in the south wall.
The bed would have stretched along the west wall.
Room 7 is on the right with room 8 at the far-right end.
Centre rear can be seen the gutter in garden 3.
On the north side of the garden must have been a roof, as proved by a gutter in cocciopesto, shown on the plan with a dotted line.
The garden was of rectangular shape, its walls whilst rough, were covered in white plaster.
There was an earthenware circular puteal (c), near the area numbered 9.
On the left of the west wall of the garden was a well-preserved masonry staircase, (d), which led to the upper floor.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1911, (p.375).
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Looking north-east.
Room 7 is in the foreground with its doorway to the south side of the atrium.
To the right of the doorway, front right in this picture, is one of the cupboards that flanked the entrance to room 8.
According to NdS, at the sides of the entrance corridor were two rooms 4 and 5.
The room with the north wall painted red and yellow is room 5.
Room 5 had a similar wall decoration to room 4, which was a low black plinth, red decorations and yellow frieze.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1911,
p. 375.
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Room 5, room on south side of entrance corridor. North wall.
According to NdS, both rooms 4 and 5 had a similar wall decoration, low black plinth, red decorations and frieze of yellow.
A square window was found high in the western wall.
To the right of the south wall was a recess for the edge of a bed along the west wall.
The flooring was of signinum with tesserae placed in lines forming a lozenge design.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1911,
p. 375.
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010.
Looking north across atrium 2 with impluvium (a), which was square consisted of a simple groove in the floor.
At the north end of the impluvium was a masonry feature, yellow on the outside, semi-circular inside.
There was a hole in the centre from which water flowed into the impluvium.
The atrium floor and that of the fauces were of opus signinum.
On the west side of the Tuscan atrium was a cistern mouth (b) made of lava stone.
There are two doors in rear (east) wall. The narrower doorway is the entrance to room 6.
The wider (nearer) doorway is to the small portico 9 and this leads to the garden 3 and kitchen and latrine 11.
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. North wall of atrium 2, with remains of painted decoration in north-east corner.
To the right in the east wall of the atrium, centre right of picture, is the doorway to rectangular room 6.
This was decorated with white plaster.
It was covered with a low vaulted ceiling, parts of which remained visible in the east and west walls.
The flooring was of opus signinum. In the south wall was a window overlooking the garden, 3.
On the left of the picture, in the north-west corner of the atrium, was a masonry staircase to the upper floor.
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Looking north to atrium 2 with two doors in the east wall.
The furthest doorway, in the east wall of the atrium, leads into the room 6 with the window overlooking the garden.
The nearest doorway leads into the garden area 3 where, on the north side, there is a window from room 6, and a doorway to the kitchen and latrine 11.
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Portico and north ambulatory of garden area.
On the left is the window of room 6, and right is the doorway to kitchen and latrine, room 11.
According to Jashemski, Spano wrote there was a garden painting in the garden, but no description was given.
Today nothing remains of it.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p. 252) and (p. 369, number 101).
According to NdS, to the right of the north wall a doorway leads into small kitchen 11, in which was also a small latrine.
See Spano, Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1911 (pp.374-375, plan on p.374)
(location given as III.i)
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Looking west towards front of house.
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Looking west to remains of room 7 second room on the south side of the entrance corridor.
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Looking west towards the room 5 on the south side of entrance.
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Looking west to the entrance corridor 1.
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Looking west towards room 4, room with window, on north side of entrance corridor.
On its north side, steps to the upper floor can be seen.
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Looking west. Room 4 and steps to upper floor in north-west corner of atrium.
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010.
Looking east through the entrance corridor to atrium. Doorway to room 7 is on right behind the south wall of fauces 1.
IX.14.c Pompeii. May 2010. Looking east through the entrance corridor to atrium, and through to portico 9 and garden area 3.
A terracotta puteal (c) can be seen, standing on a masonry circle, in the doorway leading into the garden.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p. 252).
According to Spano, the doorway to the garden area, 3, was at the right end of the east wall of the atrium.
Through the doorway, one entered into a sort of portico with unadorned walls and earth floor, room 9.
At the extreme left end of the east wall, the wall was decorated with a black plinth showing some painted plants and decorated with a red wall.
At the right end, to the south, there was a large cupboard, numbered 10, with white walls.
This room received light by a high window in the east wall.
IX.14.c Pompeii, 1978. Atrium 2, east side, doorway to small portico 9. 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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IX.14.c. December 2007. Looking south-east, across top of wall of IX.14.2/4, to the south wall of room 6.
IX.14.c. December 2007. Looking south across wall of room 6 to remains of room 11 kitchen. Photographed from roof of IX.14.2/4.