VII .1.40 Pompeii. Domus M. Caesi Blandi or Casa di
Marte e Venere
or House of Mars and Venus. Rear entrance at VII .1.43.
Excavated 1848 and 1862. (Strada
degli Augustali 22).
VII.1.40 Pompeii. December 2004.
Looking south across atrium towards tablinum 11, in centre, and doorway to room 13 leading to baths’ area, on left.
Left of centre is the doorway into the kitchen area, according to Boyce –
“In the kitchen was found a fragmentary painting with the figures of the Lares along remaining.”
See Boyce G. K.,
1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii.
Rome: MAAR 14, (p.61, no.245).
VII.1.40
Pompeii. September 2019. Doorway to room 13 in south-east corner of atrium.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40
Pompeii. September 2019.
Room 13, looking south through doorway towards doorway to north
portico.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40
Pompeii. September 2019. Room 13, steps to tepidarium 15, in south-east corner.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Room 13, step to tepidarium 15,
looking east.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40 Pompeii but described by Sogliano
above as IV.1.40.
“The small, but interesting private baths
of this house, in homage to the figured mosaic floors and the stucco remnants
that adorned its walls, had the good fortune to be covered with a roof since
the time, in which the diligent study of the monuments had not yet suggested
the way to reintegrate the ruined parts of the walls. But because it was
necessary to rebuild that roof, which was very shabby due to its age, I ordered
that the masonry vaults be rebuilt, following their original course, as clearly
shown by the remains of plaster at the top of the walls.”
See Sogliano,
A., 1909. Dei lavori eseguiti in Pompei dal 1 Luglio 1908 a tutto Giugno
1909, Napoli: d’Auria, (p.13 and 14).
VII.1.40 Pompeii. 1909 description by
Sogliano (continued).
See Sogliano,
A., 1909. Dei lavori eseguiti in Pompei dal 1 Luglio 1908 a tutto Giugno
1909, Napoli: d’Auria, (p.14).
VII.1.40
Pompeii. September 2019.
Tepidarium
15, looking towards east wall, with arched doorway to room 16, and small
circular window between the two rooms.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40
Pompeii. September 2019. Tepidarium 15, east wall.
Foto
Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. 1959.
East wall of tepidarium, with a painted garland of pinecones, and small window to caldarium.
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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VII.1.40 Pompeii. 1959.
East wall of tepidarium, with doorway at the northern end linking to the caldarium.
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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VII.1.40
Pompeii. September 2019. Tepidarium 15, north wall and north-east corner.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40
Pompeii. September 2019. Tepidarium 15, looking towards north wall and
north-east corner.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40
Pompeii. September 2019. Tepidarium 15, looking towards north wall.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40
Pompeii. September 2019. Tepidarium 15, mosaic flooring with emblema.
Foto
Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
According
to PPM –
“The black and white mosaic flooring showed a
flower in the centre, around which were a series of objects for the bath/water
(fish, dolphins, a sandal and a strigil) and birds.”
See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici.VI. (6). Roma:
Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p.430, no.98.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Tepidarium 15, flooring with
6-petalled flower in mosaic.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40
Pompeii. September 2019. Threshold in doorway to caldarium 16, from tepidarium
15.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Detail of threshold between
tepidarium 15 and caldarium 16.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Caldarium 16, looking east
across flooring from doorway.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Caldarium
16, detail of mosaic flooring.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. c.1930. Mosaic flooring
in caldarium 16.
DAIR 41.639. Photo © Deutsches
Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
See Pernice,
E. 1938. Pavimente und Figürliche
Mosaiken: Die Hellenistische Kunst in Pompeji, Band VI. Berlin: de Gruyter,
(taf. 20.1)
VII.1.40
Pompeii. September 2019. Caldarium 16, looking east across flooring.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Caldarium
16, looking east from doorway.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Caldarium
16, north wall, with arched doorway leading into Kitchen 14, on left.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
According
to PPM –
“In the
south wall of the kitchen (i.e. north wall of caldarium) there is an arched
doorway to the caldarium beneath which was the entrance to the underlying
hypocaust.”
See
Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei:
Pitture e Mosaici. VI. (6). Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia
italiana, p.429, no. 97.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Caldarium
16, east wall.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Caldarium
16, south wall.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2018. Looking south across impluvium in atrium towards tablinum
11.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
The south wall of the tablinum still shows
remains of IV Style decoration, a high purple/violet zoccolo with squares with
painted flowers and carpet borders: the middle of the walls was painted black.
VII.1.40
Pompeii. September 2018. Looking across impluvium in
atrium towards flooring in tablinum 11.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40
Pompeii. September 2019. Detail from south-west corner of impluvium in atrium.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2017.
Looking across impluvium in atrium towards
flooring in tablinum 11. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Tablinum
11, looking south-east across tablinum towards peristyle.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Tablinum
11, looking south-west across tablinum towards lower west wall.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Tablinum 11, looking across mosaic threshold of flooring
with central emblema.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019.
Tablinum 11, east end of doorway with black
and white mosaic threshold with the use of polychrome tesserae.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019.
Tablinum 11, east end of threshold with
black and white mosaics with the use of polychrome tesserae.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Tablinum
11, looking south towards west end of doorway threshold.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Tablinum
11, detail from mosaic doorway threshold at west end.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. c.1930. Looking towards east along south side of
atrium and threshold of tablinum.
See Blake, M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the
Republic and Early Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p. 60, & 75, and Pl.18, tav.
2.)
VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Tablinum
11, black and white central emblema.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. September 2019. Tablinum
11, detail from central emblema.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.1.40
Pompeii. c.1930. Tablinum 11, central mosaic emblema in flooring.
DAIR 41.643.
Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
See Pernice,
E. 1938. Pavimente und Figürliche
Mosaiken: Die Hellenistische Kunst in Pompeji, Band VI. Berlin: de Gruyter,
(taf. 20.5).
VII.1.40 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking north-west from tablinum across atrium towards west ala, 3a.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 304.
VII.1.40 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Detail of threshold between atrium and tablinum at west end.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 305.