VI.17.11 Pompeii. Entrance to lower floor.   

Linked to VI.17.9 and VI.17.10. Excavated from 1764.

VI.17.11 Pompeii, centre right. May 2011. Looking south towards entrance doorway on Via Consolare. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VI.17.11 Pompeii. September 2021. Looking south-west towards entrance on Via Consolare. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

On the left of the entrance would be the underground area of VI.17.12, with the triclinium of VI.17.13, above it.

See comment in VI.17.13, repeated below -

According to Allroggen-Bedel, she could not locate rooms 11 and 12 of VI.17.10, but, she wrote -

“However two rooms in the next door house (VI.17.12-13) meet the description of rooms nos. 11 and 12.

La Vega said that in the space described as no.12, he had discovered a “sotterraneo” (underground room/cellar, etc).

The characteristics of the rooms– bed recess and sotterraneo, were both to be found next to the cellar stairs in VI.17.12.

The room described as no.11 is probably identical with the room next door (VI.17.13), where the remains of the yellow background central zone decorations were preserved.”

See Allroggen-Bedel - Die malereien aus dem Haus Insula Occidentalis 10, in Cronache Pompeiane II, 1976 (p.144-183).

VI.17.11 Pompeii. October 2014. Looking west towards entrance. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VI.17.11 Pompeii. September 2021. Looking west from entrance. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VI.17.11 Pompeii. September 2021. Plaque on south wall, (R 1977) restored in 1977. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VI.17.11 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking west to blocked doorway to lower levels.

On the right is the entrance to the stairs that would have led up to the atrium.

VI.17.11 Pompeii. September 2021.

Lower stairs in north wall leading to atrium of VI.17.10. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VI.17.11 Pompeii. September 2015.

State of the lower levels of the house, taken through the hole in the blocked doorway.

VI.17.11 Pompeii. May 2011. Looking west towards entrance. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VI.17.11 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking west.

VI.17.11 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking west.