VII .15.16 Pompeii. Granary
under the garden of VII .15.2.
Rear entrance of VII .15.2.
Linked to VII .15.1.
Numbered on Eschebach plan as number 15.
VII.15.16 Pompeii. 2019. 3D model of bakery area.
The oven is seen in the east wall with doorways to rooms O (left) and N (right) in the south wall.
Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix and colleagues.
VII.15.16 Pompeii. May 2006. Room N, (?), room on south side of courtyard with oven, looking towards east wall.
VII.15.16 Pompeii. May 2006. Room N, small space at north end of west wall.
VII.15.16 Pompeii. May 2006. Room N, interior of small space at north end of west wall.
VII.15.16 Pompeii. May 2006. Room N, small space at south end of west wall.
According to Franklin –
“the rooms of the horrea (granary) are most likely to have been given over to the storage of grain both packed into bags and stored loose in the dolia once in the exedral areas off the main corridor.”
VII.15.16 Pompeii. May 2006. Room O, kneading room on south side of oven, looking east.
In the centre of the room are two masonry supports for a large worktable.
The walls would have had a high (1.60cm) red zoccolo and the wall above would have been painted white.
VII.15.16 Pompeii. May 2006. Room O, kneading basin leaning against table support in kneading room on south side of oven.
VII.15.16 Pompeii. May 2006. Granary, room O, north wall.
VII.15.16 Pompeii. May 2006. Granary, Small room Q behind oven in north-east
corner.
VII.15.16 Pompeii. May 2006. Granary, Small room Q behind oven in north-east
corner.
VII.15.16 Pompeii. May 2006. Room O, looking towards south-east corner of kneading room.
VII.15.16 Pompeii. May 2006. Room O, south-east corner and south wall.
VII.15.16 Pompeii. May 2006. Granary, room O, south wall.
VII.15.16 Pompeii. May 2006. Granary. Room R, looking south through doorway.
VII.15.16 Pompeii. May 2006. Granary, Room R, small doorway in east wall
giving access to room S, a very low final room.
Bullettino
dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1874
Translation of BdI, 1874, (p.154-155)
Even larger was the other part of the underground
basement which belonged to a baker. From
the road, first you enter into an uncovered area, probably due to the
reconstruction of part of the house: on the left you have the toilet, and you
see buried in the wall a pipe belonging to that of the upper floor.
Then we enter the underground and enter a corridor
that has on the right two vaulted rooms with windows onto the garden, on the
left as many with vents onto the peristyle of the adjacent house.
Then, you enter a larger vaulted covered room,
stretching from east to west, with venting towards the east, and window to the
west. Here, some clay dolia and a round wall base was found.
Passing then through a narrow door, we enter into
another vaulted covered room, with wide opening towards the east onto an open
courtyard, where there is a mill, and in front of the said openings a very well
preserved oven of the ordinary form, part of which passes through the room of
the four paintings (see BdI 1873, p.205). Near the entrance there is an
opening in the floor covered with a clay plate with 16 round holes, intended no
doubt to serve for the drainage of water.
To the right of the courtyard there was first a
vaulted room, from which on the right you entered into another rather dark
room, and near to the oven a covered area with beams that was used for the
baker’s business: there are two rough table/board supports; two tubs/basins,
one of lava and a flatter one made of clay. This area was linked with the oven
by means of an opening through the wall, and in ancient times was linked with
the first room to the right of the courtyard, but the doorway was later
walled-up. Even the entrance from the
courtyard was once taller and wider.
From this area, you can still enter a small room
behind the oven, and in another opposite to the entrance, also covered with
beams, and in which to the left gives on to a rather dark area.
Let's return now, into the room where we entered
the courtyard, but instead of going left let's turn right.
There we find a room covered by a vault and with
two windows onto the garden: passing then forward, and then to the left by two
dark rooms you arrive in the only room which was positioned under the southern
portico, which belonged to this part of the underground.
Bullettino
dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1874
Copy
of Bullettino dell’Instituto di
Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1874, (p.154)
Copy
of Bullettino dell’Instituto di
Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1874, (p. 155)