I.9.5 Pompeii. Casa dei Cubicoli Floreali or House of the Floral Cubicula

or Casa del frutteto or House of the Orchard or Domus of Euplia.

Linked to I.9.6 and I.9.7. Excavated 1913 and 1951.

Quick Outline

This page has been created to give an appreciation of the main rooms and areas of House of the Floral Cubicula without the need to navigate the many detailed pages of photographs.

Detail

If you are interested to see the house in more detail, the rooms are shown in much greater detail in the subsequent parts.

Detailed photos      Plan

I.9.6 and 1.9.5 Pompeii. June 2012. Entrance doorways on Via dell’Abbondanza. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

I.9.5 Pompeii. January 2017. Cast of the entrance doorway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.9.5 Pompeii. January 2023. Room 1, fauces. Looking south across atrium from entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022.

Room 3, looking south across impluvium in atrium. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. August 2021. Room 3, looking south along east side of atrium towards tablinum. Photo courtesy of Robert Hanson.

I.9.5 Pompeii. August 2021.

Room 3, looking south across impluvium in atrium towards travertine table. Photo courtesy of Robert Hanson.

I.9.5 Pompeii. May 2017.

Room 8, looking north from tablinum across room 3, atrium, towards doorways to rooms on either side of entrance corridor.

Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.9.5 Pompeii. September 2017.  Room 5, looking east through doorway and across floor mosaic.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.9.5 Pompeii. December 2023. Room 5, looking east through doorway. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022. Room 5, looking towards east wall from doorway.

Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. September 2017. Room 5, looking east along north wall from doorway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.9.5 Pompeii. May 2016. Room 5, zoccolo from lower north wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022. Room 5, detail from upper east wall. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022. Room 5, cubiculum. North end of east wall.

Detail of painting of Egyptian pharaonic statue and lemon tree.

Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022.

Room 5, cubiculum. Looking towards north-east corner and centre of east wall. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022. Room 5, cubiculum. South end of east wall.

Detail of painting of Egyptian pharaonic statue and cherry tree.

Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. May 2017. Room 5, zoccolo from lower east wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.9.5 Pompeii. December 2018.

Room 5, cubiculum, looking east along south wall towards south-east corner.

Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.9.5 Pompeii. July 2021.

Room 5, south wall with painting of Ariadne and Dionysus.

Photo courtesy of Davide Peluso.

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022.

Room 5, detail from south wall with painting of Ariadne and Dionysus.

Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. January 2017.

Looking south-west across atrium towards corridor 7, tablinum 8, and room 9.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.9.5 Pompeii. September 2017. Looking south across atrium towards tablinum 8.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.9.5 Pompeii. January 2017.

Room 8, looking south from flooring in atrium, across mosaic doorway threshold and flooring in tablinum. 

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.9.5 Pompeii. January 2017.

Room 8, looking south-west across tablinum, with fragment of upper wall, in glass case.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.9.5 Pompeii, September 2019.

Room 8, tablinum, fragment of decorated upper wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.9.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, room 11 and doorway to room 13. Looking east from rear of tablinum.

I.9.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, triclinium. South wall with doorway to room 11.

According to Peters, this room contained paintings on all four walls.

The ones within aediculae on the northern and southern walls have nearly completely disappeared.

See Peters, W.J.T. (1963): Landscape in Romano-Campanian Mural Paintings. The Netherlands, Van Gorcum & Comp, (p.85).

I.9.5 Pompeii. December 2023. Room 10, looking north from doorway. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

I.9.5 Pompeii. September 2017. Room 10, looking north along east wall.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022.

Room 10, triclinium, east wall with central painting. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. October 2024. Room 10, looking towards north wall, north-east corner and east wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.9.5 Pompeii. December 2023. Room 10, looking towards north wall. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022.

Room 10, north wall of triclinium. Painting of the War under Troy or Seven against Thebes.

Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, triclinium. Looking north along west wall.

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022.

Room 10, west wall of triclinium. Painting of Acteon and Artemis, or Diana.

Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. September 2017. Room 11, doorway threshold.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.9.5 Pompeii. December 2023.

Room 11, looking east from doorway. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

I.9.5 Pompeii. September 2017. Room 11, looking east across flooring.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022. Room 11, recomposed ceiling. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, cubiculum. North wall, east end, garden painting.

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022.

Room 11, painting from upper north wall at east end. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022.

Room 11, looking towards east wall of cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022.

Room 11, east wall of cubiculum with painting of a snake in a fig tree with birds.

Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

1.9.5 Pompeii. 1966.

Room 11, east wall of cubiculum with detail of garden trellis painting, white vases and Isis jug/jar. 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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I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022.

Room 11, looking towards centre of east wall with painted table with Isis jug or jar.

Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022. Room 11, detail of painted table with Isis jug or jar on east wall. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022.

Room 11, looking towards zoccolo on lower east wall of cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. July 2021.

Room 11, looking towards east wall, south-east corner, and south wall.

Photo courtesy of Davide Peluso.

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022.

Room 11, upper painted panel of birds in tree from south wall in south-east corner.

Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022. Room 11, painting of fountain from south wall in south-east corner. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. September 2017. Room 11, looking east along south wall.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.9.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, doorway in west wall of cubiculum.

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022.

Room 11, garden painting from upper west wall of cubiculum above doorway. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking south along east portico. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.9.5 Pompeii. January 2017. Room 12, looking south-east along east portico.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.9.5 Pompeii. January 2017.

Looking south along east portico, with doorways to room 13, 14 and 15.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.9.5 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 12, looking south across portico area, to doorway to room 15, and large triclinium, room 17 (on right).

I.9.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorways to room 14 (left) and room 15, kitchen, (ahead).

I.9.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, south wall of kitchen area, with stairs leading down to stable area, room 16.

I.9.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 16, south wall of stable area (with entrance at I.9.7, on left).

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022.

Room 15, looking towards latrine in kitchen area. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. July 2006. Room 15, latrine. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.

I.9.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, kitchen. Looking north-west towards doorways to triclinium and peristyle.

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022.

Room 17, triclinium, looking north to peristyle, through tablinum, across atrium towards entrance doorway.

Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. April 2022.

Room 17, looking north-east through doorway of triclinium towards portico with decorated flooring. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.9.5 Pompeii. July 2021.

Room 12, looking east along south side of peristyle, showing gutter and portico floor.

Photo courtesy of Davide Peluso.