All the doorways on the northern side of Via Nola, forming Regio IV, have been filled in as a wall to keep the earth bank back from the road.
It is very difficult to find the exact position of these doorways and link them to any site plan.
Liselotte Eschebach has numbered these houses from IV.2.1 to IV.2.7. Our numbering is IV.2.a to IV.2.g, as in CTP IIIA.
See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau.
IV.2.e Pompeii. March 2009. Wide entrance to shop.
IV.2.e Pompeii.
May 2006. Entrance.
According to Liselotte Eschebach, there was a Lararium inside to the left.
She suggested this was Boyce number 70. Boyce simply described a niche in the west wall for the domestic gods.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.31, no. 70).
See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.118, IV.2.5).
IV.2.e Pompeii? (described on card as from IV.2.4, Via di Nola). March 2024.
Lararium
niche with depiction of Bacchus. Photo courtesy of
Giuseppe Ciaramella.
On display in exhibition in Palaestra
entitled – “L’altra Pompei, vite comuni all’ombra del Vesuvio”.
According to Boyce –
“IV.2 – Taberna in the south-east corner of the insula.
This shop has two rooms, of which that on the west has, in the west wall, a niche for the domestic gods.”
He quotes reference: Not.Scavi, 1905, 279.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14, (p.31, no.70).
According to Sogliano, the walls of the workshop were coated with rough plaster, and offered nothing of interest except the niche of the domestic gods in the west wall.
Many items that were discovered in the workshop are listed in NdS, pages 279-80.
Some of these items showing signs of burning from the fire that must have developed here.
See Notizie
degli Scavi di Antichità, 1905 (p.279-80).
IV.2.e Pompeii? May 2024. Detail of Lararium niche with
depiction of Bacchus. Photo
courtesy of Klaus Heese.
On
display in exhibition entitled – “L’altra Pompei, vite comuni all’ombra del
Vesuvio”.
IV.2.e Pompeii.
May 2006. Entrance.
IV.2.e Pompeii.
May 2006. Entrance.
IV.2.e Pompeii. May
2005. Entrance.