I.2.6 Pompeii. Casa degli attori or Casa dei Mimi.

Excavated 1872. Bombed in 1943.

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1.2.6 Pompeii. October 2024. Rooms on north side of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.2.6 Pompeii. December 2006. Small room/storeroom on left, and kitchen area with latrine on right.

1.2.6 Pompeii. October 2024.

Looking north towards doorway to small room, on east side of steps. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

1.2.6 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking north towards doorway to small room, on east side of steps. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

1.2.6 Pompeii. September 2010. North wall and floor of small room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

1.2.6 Pompeii. October 2024.

Doorway to room in north-east corner of peristyle, kitchen with latrine.

Above, on the north wall of the upper floor is a niche latrine. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

1.2.6 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking north to doorway to second small room, in north-east corner of peristyle.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

1.2.6 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking north-east through doorway, across small room.

In the north-east corner, two recessed features parallel to each other on different floors (latrine niche?) can be seen on the north wall.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.2.6 Pompeii. December 2006. Latrine on ground floor, with another on the first floor visible above the downpipe.

1.2.6 Pompeii. September 2010.

Detail of upper recess on north wall, in north-east corner. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

1.2.6 Pompeii. September 2010.

Lower north-east corner of second small room, showing detail of feature (latrine?). Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

1.2.6 Pompeii. September 2010.

Detail of lower feature (latrine?), in north-east corner. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.2.6 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking north-west across peristyle to north side of house, and the atrium.

According to Jashemski, the west portico was entered directly from the atrium through the two doors.

The garden had a portico on four sides and was supported by eight stuccoed brick columns. 

See above, now only stumps survive.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.22)

1.2.6 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south across remains of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

1.2.6 Pompeii. September 2010.

Detail of collapsed brick core column in peristyle, looking south. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

1.2.6 Pompeii. October 2024. Looking towards north-east corner of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

1.2.6 Pompeii. October 2024. Looking towards east wall of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

1.2.6 Pompeii. September 2010. East wall of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to Warscher, quoting Mau in BdI, 1874, p.199, she described –

I.2.6 “la pittura delle pareti del peristilio sopra zoccolo nero con ornamenti ci mostra scompartimenti rossi intermediati da altri neri più stretti ne’ quali è dipinto un candelabro giallo e attortigliarto; in mezzo agli scompartimenti rossi vi sono quadretti fatti con poca diligenza e rappresentati maschere e paesaggi”.

See Warscher T., 1935. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2. (after no.18), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.

(translation: I. 2.6 "the painting of the peristyle walls above the black zoccolo with ornaments, showed red compartments separated by other more narrow black ones, on which were painted yellow twining candelabra; in the middle of the red compartments there were paintings made with a little diligence and represented masks and landscapes.")

1.2.6 Pompeii. October 2024.

Looking towards south end of east wall of peristyle, and doorway into triclinium. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

1.2.6 Pompeii. October 2024. Detail of cistern-mouth on west side of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

1.2.6 Pompeii. October 2024. Detail of column in peristyle. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

1.2.6 Pompeii. October 2024.

East wall of peristyle, looking south to triclinium. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.2.6 Pompeii.  December 2006. East wall of peristyle, looking south to triclinium.

Traces of original plaster can still be seen on the east wall of the peristyle.

When excavated this could be seen as painted in red and divided in compartments by gold coloured candelabra. 

Photographs by Tatiana Warscher of this area can be seen in - Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p. 39)

When excavated the triclinium had 3 large paintings.

However, one fell together with its wall, another which showed Meleager at the hunt of the Calydonian boar remained slightly visible on the east wall (now faded) and the one most intact was sent to Naples Archaeological Museum, (NAP inventory number 109751, The theft of the Palladium), at the side of which were two medallions showing female busts crowned with foliage of vine leaves and herbs.

These were found on the south wall.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.35)

I.2.6 Pompeii. 1875 drawing by E. Eichler of a medallion of a young person crowned with vine foliage.

The drawing is titled “South wall of triclinium right from peristyle”.

PPM gives two possible locations, the second being a large room at the side of the stairs on the opposite side of the peristyle.

DAIR 83.1. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.35)

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. I. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 13.

I.2.6 Pompeii. c.1900. Painting by Pierre Gusman, described as a Pompeian Portrait from I.2.6.

See Gusman P., 1900. Pompeii: The City, Its Life & Art. London: Heinemann, p. 258.

1.2.6 Pompeii. October 2024. Triclinium, south wall, south-west corner and west wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.2.6 Pompeii. Pre 1942. West wall of triclinium, with site of a central painting marked with “X”.

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

1.2.6 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south into triclinium in south-east corner of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

1.2.6 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards south wall, and south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.2.6 Pompeii. Pre 1942. South wall of triclinium, with medallion and site of central painting marked with “X”.

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

I.2.6 Pompeii. May 2010. Triclinium.

Wall painting of the Theft of the Palladium (Ratto del Palladio) found on the south wall.

Now in Naples Archaeology Museum, inventory number 109751.

I.2.6 Pompeii. Triclinium. Drawing by Geremia Discanno, of the Theft of the Palladium (Ratto del Palladio).

See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: Giannini. (p. 114, no.580).

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 4.

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