VI.17.41 or VI.17.f Pompeii. House of the library.

Plus VI.17.c, VI.17.d, VI.17.e shown on the Eschebach plan but now have no doorway.

Linked to VI.17.40. First excavated 1759 and shortly before 1970. Restored 1974.

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VI.17.41 Pompeii. May 2011. Looking north-west across atrium, from entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. May 2015. Flooring in atrium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. September 2019. Looking towards north-east corner of atrium.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. September 2019. North-east corner of atrium

VI.17.41 Pompeii. May 2006. North wall of atrium in north-east corner.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. September 2019. Looking towards north wall in north-east corner of atrium

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. May 2006. Painted plaster on north wall of atrium.

At the rear of this wall would be a room decorated with white walls, with panels divided by red bands.

In the south wall, there was a lararium niche decorated with flowered bushes.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. September 2019.

Looking west in room behind north wall of atrium, looking towards north ala.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. September 2019.

Looking west towards south wall at rear of north wall of atrium.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. September 2019. Looking west along south wall with niche.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. September 2019. Detail from decoration on south wall.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. September 2019. Lararium niche on south wall.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. 1978.

Lararium niche decorated with flowered bushes from south wall of room on north-east corner of atrium. 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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VI.17.41 Pompeii. May 2006. Rooms on north side of atrium.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. May 2006. Room on north side of atrium.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking west along north wall of atrium.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. September 2019. Looking towards north wall of atrium and to rooms at its rear.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking west across north side of atrium, towards tablinum in centre.

On the right of the tablinum is the doorway into a small cubiculum, and then the open doorway into the north ala.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. September 2017.

Looking north-west across impluvium in atrium towards doorway to small cubiculum and north ala.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. May 2015.

Looking north-west across atrium towards tablinum, small cubiculum and north ala, from entrance doorway.

Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. May 2015.

Doorway into cubiculum and doorway of north ala, rooms on north side of atrium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. May 2006. Cubiculum on north side of tablinum, south-west corner.

The west wall had been split by the Bourbon excavators, when they took the painting from the east wall of the adjoining room.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. September 2019. Looking north towards north ala.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. May 2015. Looking west along north wall in atrium towards north ala. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. May 2011. Looking west along north wall in atrium towards north ala. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. September 2019.

Looking north across flooring in north ala, the long decorated doorway threshold with the atrium has completely lost its central part.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. September 2019. Detail of doorway threshold between atrium and north ala.

On the right is a simple geometric mosaic threshold leading into a corridor on the north side of the atrium.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. September 2019. West wall of north ala, with doorway to cubiculum, on left.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. September 2019. Detail of painted decoration from west wall of north ala.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. September 2019. Detail from west wall of north ala.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking north-west in north ala.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. September 2019. Looking towards north wall of north ala.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. September 2019. Detail from upper north wall in north ala.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.17.41 Pompeii. September 2019. Detail from north wall of north ala.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

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