IX.5.18 Pompeii. Casa di Jasone or House of Jason.

Linked to IX.5.19, IX.5.20 & IX.5.21. Excavated 1878.

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The room numbers on this page follow the room numbers used in Zevi, F., 1964. La Casa Reg IX.5.18-21 a Pompei e le sue pitture: Studi Miscellanei 5. Roma: Bretschneider.

This provides a direct reference back to the book.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. March 2009. Room a, entrance doorway with east wall of fauces.

According to Cooley, found beside the doorway was the graffito CIL IV 5112.

She translates it as –

Learn: while I am alive, you, hateful death, are coming.

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge. (p.78)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), it read as –

Discite dum vivo mors

inimica venis      [CIL IV 5112]

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005. Room “a”, entrance with west wall of fauces.

In the left wall of the entrance corridor, the remains of decorations were seen in two red panels.

In the second red panel, a graffito of a sailing ship was seen.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1878, (p.263)

IX.5.18 Pompeii. April 2019. Looking north across atrium from entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005. Room “b”. Looking north across atrium which also served as a garden in this house.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. Undated watercolour painting by Luigi Bazzani, looking north-east across atrium “b”.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. 1961 photo of table legs in situ in atrium “b”.

DAIR 61.1126. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005. Atrium, room “b”, rectangular pool.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005. Room “b”, rectangular pool and column with fountain jet.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005. Doorway to room “c”.

Small room on west side of entrance corridor with outline of stairs in wall.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005. Room “c”, from the east looking west. The back of room “c” is on the right, with masonry bench.

Room “d” is at the rear on the left, past the entrance at IX.5.19.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005. Two rooms in south-west corner. Room “d”, looking west to doorway to room “e”.

The red middle zone of the west wall was separated from the black zoccolo by a horizontal pattern.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005.

Room “e”, cubiculum, second room in south-west corner with two corner windows.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005. Room “e”, south wall of cubiculum, second room in south-west corner.

Wall painting of Phaedra handing the nurse the letter that will lead to the death of her stepson Hippolytus.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 114322.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. Room “e”, south wall of cubiculum, second room in south-west corner.

Drawing by G. Discanno of wall painting of Phaedra handing the nurse the letter that will lead to the death of her stepson Hippolytus.

DAIR 83.276. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005. Room “e”, west wall of cubiculum, second room in south-west corner.

Wall painting of Medea sitting contemplating killing her children who play nearby.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 114321.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. 1957. Room “e”, west wall of cubiculum, second room in south-west corner.

Wall painting of Medea sitting contemplating killing her children who play nearby.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 114321.

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.5.18 Pompeii. Room “e”, west wall of cubiculum, second room in south-west corner.

Drawing by G. Discanno of wall painting of Medea sitting contemplating killing her children who play nearby.

DAIR 83.277. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. Pre-1942. Room “e”, looking towards west wall where the painting of Medea was cut from, on left.

On right, the north wall where the painting of Paris and Helen was cut from.

See Warscher, T. 1942. Catalogo illustrato degli affreschi del Museo Nazionale di Napoli. Sala LXXIX. Vol.1. Rome, Swedish Institute.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005. Room “e”, north wall of cubiculum, second room in south-west corner.

Wall painting of seated Paris waiting for the prize promised by Aphrodite.

The cupid in the doorway points to Helen.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 114320.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. Room “e”, north wall of cubiculum, second room in south-west corner.

Drawing by G. Discanno of wall painting of seated Paris waiting for the prize promised by Aphrodite.

DAIR 83.278. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005. Room “f”, west wall of large triclinium on west side of atrium.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. Pre-1942. Room “f”, west wall of large triclinium/exedra.

In the centre panel would have been the painting of Jason and Pelias.

On the right, north wall, is the painting of Pentheus and Dionysus? (partly still in situ).

See Warscher, T. 1942. Catalogo illustrato degli affreschi del Museo Nazionale di Napoli. Sala LXXIX. Vol.1. Rome, Swedish Institute.

Note: Photo flipped, as the Catalogo original is in reverse.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. Pre-1942. Room “f”, detail of central panel of west wall of large triclinium/exedra.

In the centre panel would have been the painting of Jason and Pelias.

See Warscher, T. 1942. Catalogo illustrato degli affreschi del Museo Nazionale di Napoli. Sala LXXIX. Vol.1. Rome, Swedish Institute.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. June 2009. Room “f”, west wall of triclinium. Wall painting of Jason and Pelias.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 111436.

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2001. Room “f”, west wall of triclinium, wall painting of Jason and Pelias  

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 111436.

Photograph courtesy of Current Archaeology.

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