V.2.e Pompeii. Rear entrance to V.2.i.

Excavated 1883-4, 1891-3 and 1907.

V.2.e Pompeii, on left. September 2021. Looking south along east side of Vicolo di Cecilio Giocondo. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.e Pompeii. December 2007. Wall plaster on left of entrance doorway, in vicolo. 

According to Varone, the graffito CIL 4239 was inscribed to the left of the entrance

See Varone, A., 2002. Erotica Pompeiana: Love Inscriptions on the Walls of Pompeii, Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.69)

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

Fortunate animula dulcis perfututor

scribit qui novit      [CIL IV 4239]

V.2.e Pompeii. October 2023.

Entrance doorway on east side of Vicolo di Cecilio Giocondo. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.e Pompeii. September 2021. Entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.e Pompeii. September 2021. Looking east through entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.e Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway, looking east.

According to Liselotte Eschebach three great circular bronze amphitheatre trumpets (tubae) were found in V.2.e.

See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau.

According to Mau, and the NdS 1884, these were found in V.2.c room “b”.

See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1885, p. 252.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1884, p. 52-3.

According to Della Corte, they were excavated in the caupona found immediately to the south of the posticum of the Casa di Albucio Celso.

See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino, p. 108.

V.2.e Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance doorway.

V.2.e Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance doorway.

V.2.e Pompeii. October 2023. Looking along north wall from entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.e Pompeii. September 2021. Looking along north wall from entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.e Pompeii. December 2005. Three doorways on the north side of the atrium.

The left doorway leading to a room with a window in the east wall overlooking the garden.

The middle doorway leading to steps to upper floor with recess beneath.

The last doorway, on the right, leading to the garden area, the kitchen, and a cubiculum.

See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.136)

V.2.e Pompeii. December 2005. Looking east across atrium, towards the triclinium with a window overlooking the garden of V.2.g.

According to NdS, the atrium was found with no flooring and with rustic walls except for a high dado of brick plaster (mattone pesto).

The triclinium was situated opposite the entrance on the east side of the atrium.

Its decorated walls were divided into panels with cupids and flying deer.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1896, (p.433)

See Mau in Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), VIII, 1893, (p.4-7)

V.2.e Pompeii. December 2005. Cistern mouth on north side of entrance doorway.

According to NdS, the mouth to the cistern was bricked into a podium in the north-west corner of the atrium near to the entrance doorway.

V.2.e Pompeii. September 2021. Looking along south wall from entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.e Pompeii. May 2005. Room on north side of entrance doorway, with window to garden area.

This was discovered with rough, coarse walls, and with dado and flooring both of brick plaster.

According to Eschebach, this room may have been an oecus or a triclinium.

V.2.e Pompeii. May 2005. Steps to upper floor.

V.2.e Pompeii. May 2005. Recess under the steps to upper floor.

V.2.e Pompeii. May 2005. East wall of garden area, with window to triclinium, on left, and doorway to kitchen and latrine, on right.

V.2.e Pompeii. May 2005. Looking south from garden, through corridor to atrium.

On the left, in the corridor, is a doorway to a cubiculum, on the right is the recess under the stairs.