IX.6.7 Pompeii. Rear entrance of IX.6.5. Rooms p to s.

Linked to IX.6.4 and IX.6.6. Excavated 1878.

IX.6.4-7 Pompeii plan. Based on the plans in BdI and PPM.

The differences are that BdI uses Greek letters for a to e in IX.6.4 and PPM uses a’ to e’ and adds 1, 2 and 3 for the fauces, atrium and peristyle.

See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), September 1880, p.194.

Key:

p:  Kitchen with hearth

q:  Latrine

r:  Cupboard/storeroom

s:  Cupboard/storeroom

IX.6.7 Pompeii. May 2005.

Looking south from entrance doorway, into large kitchen (room “p” on plan) with remains of hearth (on left of entrance doorway under the window), a tub/basin against the east wall and doorway to room “s” on east side of peristyle of IX.6.5.

According to Mau, the entrance doorway (at IX.6.7) was originally 2,11m wide so he assumed that here, at one time, some industry was done, but that it was later narrowed to 1.06m.  In the last times of the house -

Room "p" was the kitchen with hearth leaning against the north wall, and above it was a square window. Against the east wall, a tub/basin was leaning (2.24 x 0.76 measured externally, and 0,65 high) with a hole near the bottom, which, however, was completely filled with various stones added with mortar.

Room "q" was the latrine with small window that narrowed towards the vicolo.

Rooms "r" and "s" could be considered as cupboards/storerooms and each had a window into the kitchen, which for its part had a small window near to the south-west corner onto the peristyle, and in the same corner a niche (0.40 high x 0.33 wide) that could have been used as a lararium or for putting a light, or for the figurines of the Lares: a lararium painting was not found.

See Mau in Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1880, (p.231)

According to Della Corte, the following electoral recommendation was found here -

Oppius (Gratus) rog(at)      [CIL IV 3696] 

See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino.(p.164, note 3)

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

Oppiu<m=S> Severum aed(ilem)      [CIL IV 3696]

IX.6.7 Pompeii. May 2024. Looking towards east side of entrance doorway at north end of room “p”. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

On the right of entrance doorway was a hearth leaning against the north wall, under a window, no longer there.

Next to the hearth was a doorway into the latrine, room “q”.

IX.6.7 Pompeii. May 2024. Detail of hearth leaning against north wall of kitchen. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.6.7 Pompeii. May 2024. Detail of remaining plaster on north wall above hearth. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.6.7 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking south-east to two rooms on east side of entrance.

These would have been a latrine room “q” on left, and small room or storeroom room “r”, on right.

The remains of the tub/basin can be seen on the right of the photo.

IX.6.7 Pompeii. July 2008. Looking east into latrine, room “q”. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.

IX.6.7 Pompeii. May 2024. Room “q”, latrine, detail from east wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.6.7 Pompeii. May 2024.

Pilaster on east side of kitchen between room “q”, on left, and small room or storeroom room “r”, on right.

Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.6.7 Pompeii. May 2024. Room “p” kitchen, east side with tub/basin against room “r”. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.6.7 Pompeii. May 2024. Detail of tub/basin on east side of kitchen, room “p”. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.6.7 Pompeii. May 2024.

Room “p”, west side of kitchen, with doorway into room “s”. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.6.7 Pompeii. May 2024.

Kitchen “p”, west wall at south end with window onto peristyle of IX.6.5, and in the same corner a niche (0.40 high x 0.33 wide) that could have been used as a lararium or for putting a light, or for the figurines of the Lares: a lararium painting was not found. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

According to Boyce, in the kitchen entered from the posticum at No.7, in the west wall was a small niche (h.0.40, w.0.33, d.0.28, h. above floor 1.55) which may have been used for either lamp or lararium.

He quotes reference – Bull. Inst., 1880, 231.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.86, no. 431).

See Mau in Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1880, (p.231).

IX.6.7 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking south-west through doorway to east end of peristyle “3” of IX.6.5.

The wall (pluteus), that joined the columns on the east side of the peristyle, can be seen in the lower middle of the photo.

IX.6.7 doorway (with IX.6.5 columns), on left. September 2004.       Unnamed vicolo, looking west.                  IX.5, on right.