IX.11.8 Pompeii. Corner shop or caupona? Only partly excavated c.1912.

IX.11.8 Pompeii, on left, with graffiti. June 1962. Looking east between IX.12 and 1.8 on Via dell’Abbondanza.

Photo by Brian Philp: Pictorial Colour Slides, forwarded by Peter Woods

(P43.14 POMPEII House facades along a principal street)

IX.11.8 Pompeii. 1932, looking east on Via dell’ Abbondanza.

The doorway to IX.11.8 can be seen on the left, between two “protected” graffiti, and with a high, end wall with window.

Photo taken during a shore-visit from the ship Resolute’s world cruise in 1932. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

IX.11.6/7 and 8 (in centre), on north side of Via dell’Abbondanza. June 2024.

Looking north-west towards entrance doorways. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

IX.11.8 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance on Via dell’Abbondanza, looking north.

According to Eschebach this was a shop or caupona, with two doorways, another on the vicolo on the east side of the insula.

See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.447).

IX.11.8 Pompeii. October 2022.

Remains of graffiti on front wall, east of doorway, at east end of insula. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.11.8 Pompeii. May 2024.  

Detail of remaining graffiti (CIL IV 7889) on front wall, east of doorway, at east end of insula. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.11.8 Pompeii. October 2024.

Detail of remaining graffiti (CIL IV 7889) on front wall, east of doorway, at east end of insula. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.11.8 Pompeii. May 2006. Graffiti on front wall, east of doorway, at east end of insula.

CIL IV 7889 and 7890 were found here, only the first line of CIL IV 7889 has been conserved, but it is illegible now.

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p.438-439)

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

Cn(aeum)  Helvium Sabinum

aed(ilem)  v(os)  o(ro)  f(aciatis)  rog(at)         [CIL IV 7889]

C(aium)  Gauium  Rufum  d(uumvirum)  i(ure)  d(icundo)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)       [CIL IV 7890]

IX.11.8 Pompeii. May 2006. Graffito on front wall at east end of insula -

Cn(aeum)  Helvium Sabinum

aed(ilem)  v(os)  o(ro)  f(aciatis)  rog(at)         [CIL IV 7889]

According to NdS, -

Following from No. 7, the doorway numbered IX.XI.8, which because of the width of the aperture, appears clearly to have been the entrance to a shop: it was closed by means of the characteristic series of movable vertical planks, with swivel pivot on the hinge at the right end. Two bronze bells were connected to the movable shutters in the upper extremity, these were respectively 0.09 and 0.11m, and cylindrical in shape.

On the east side of the shop was a wide pilaster, on which, above the red zoccolo, the following electoral programmes were seen

5.

 (in red)

And nearby on the same pilaster, another programme read -

6.

 (in red)

The front of the shop in question was protected by a short shelter, protruding over the pavement for the length of three roofing-tiles, assembled over so many beams fixed into the façade and found in large part in their place in the state of carbon at a metre high above of the lintel. The lintels of this shop and the preceding entrance at no.7, appeared totally in a state of carbon.  It seems we have here the end of the front of Insula XI, and that the high wall that turns to the north looks into the eastern vicolo of the insula.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, February 1912, (p.64)

IX.11.8 Pompeii. June 2024. Via dell’Abbondanza, north side.

East pilaster of front façade with remains of painted inscription, at junction with an unnamed vicolo, on right.

Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

IX.11.8 Pompeii. June 2024.

Looking north along unnamed vicolo and exterior east wall of shop, from junction with Via dell’Abbondanza.

Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

IX.11.8 Pompeii, on left. May 2006.              Roadway looking north into unexcavated area.                 IX.12.1, on right.

IX.11.8 Pompeii on left. May 2006.    Roadway, looking north into unexcavated area.                             IX.12.1 on right.

IX.11.8 Pompeii. September 2021.

Looking north to east pilaster of front façade at junction with an unnamed vicolo, on right. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.11.8 Pompeii. September 2021.

Looking north-east to pilaster, on left, of front façade at junction with an unnamed vicolo, centre left. On the right is the insula IX.12.

Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

Via dell’Abbondanza, north side, Pompeii. June 2024. IX.11.6/7/8 on left, IX.12, on right. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.