Insula III on Gardens of the Roman Empire

I.3.20/22

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Province

Italia
Italia (Pleiades:1052)

Location

Pompeii (Pleiades:433032)

Location Description

An ancient city of Campania destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in CE 79, Pompeii was named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.

Sublocation

Region I

Insula

Insula III

Garden Description

At the rear of this house there was a garden with a passageway on the north and the west. The garden had a gutter along the east, north, and west edges. Embedded in the garden were four large dolia. A large triclinium on the east side had a window that looked out into the garden. Fiorelli surmised that the remains of one couch of a masonry triclinium in the west passageway indicated the possible presence of a room that had been destroyed by the earthquake. There was also a small altar on the right side of the peristyle and a terracotta puteal in the passageway.

Bibliography

Boyce, G.K. 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii, p. 24, no.25 (worldcat)
Fiorelli, G. 1860. Giornale degli scavi di Pompei, p. 73 (worldcat)
Fiorelli, G. 1875. Descrizione di Pompei, p. 54 (worldcat)
Jashemski, W.F. 1993. Gardens of Pompeii: Herculaneum and the villas destroyed by Vesuvius. Vol. II, Appendices, p. 27 (worldcat)
Matz, F. 1869. BdI, p. 242
Niccolini, F. Le case ed i monumenti di Pompeii, Naples, Vol. II, p. 78
Soprano, P. 1950, 'I triclini all'aperto di Pompei', In Pompeiana, raccolta di studi per il secondo centenario degli scavi di Pompei, Napoli, Gaetano Macchiaroli, Editore, p. 308, no.36
Warscher, T. 1937-1957. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus (worldcat)

Keywords

Garden

Garden to the rear of a domestic property and joined to a thermopolium.

Places

Excavation Dates

Excavated 1868.

I.3.23 House of Actius Anicetus

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Province

Italia
Italia (Pleiades:1052)

Location

Pompeii (Pleiades:433032)

Location Description

An ancient city of Campania destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in CE 79, Pompeii was named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.

Sublocation

Region I

Insula

Insula III

Garden Description

This site was excavated in 1868 revealing a peristyle garden at the rear of the house. A portico on the east and north side was supported by five columns connected by a low wall. There was an opening to the garden on the north. The middle of the garden had two cistern puteals. The west wall of the garden held the famous painting depicting the battle between the Nucerians and the Pompeians in the amphitheatre (1.60m high by a little less than 2.00m wide; Mus. Naz. Inv. No. 112 222; Ruesch no. 1344). This event was recorded by Tacitus (Annals 14.17). A gutter went along the east, south, and north edges of the garden.

Bibliography

Fiorelli, G. 1860. Giornale degli scavi di Pompei, p. 74 (worldcat)
Fiorelli, G. 1875. Descrizione di Pompei, p. 55-56 (worldcat)
n.d. 1865-1869. GiornSc, n.s. 1 , cols. 185-187 (where the address is given as I.ii)
Jashemski, W.F. 1993. Gardens of Pompeii: Herculaneum and the villas destroyed by Vesuvius. Vol. II, Appendices, p. 27 (worldcat)
Matz, F. 1869. BdI, p. 240-241
Niccolini, F. Le case ed i monumenti di Pompeii, Naples, Vol. II, p. 78
Niccolini, F. Le case ed i monumenti di Pompeii, Naples, Vol. IV, plate 32
Maiuri, A. 1939. NSc, pp. 168-169
Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: Giannini, p. 204, no. 604
Warscher, T. 1937-1957. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus (worldcat), nos. 44-50

Keywords

Garden

Peristyle garden to the rear of a domestic property.

Places

Excavation Dates

Excavated c.1868.

I.3.24 House of Capella

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Province

Italia
Italia (Pleiades:1052)

Location

Pompeii (Pleiades:433032)

Location Description

An ancient city of Campania destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in CE 79, Pompeii was named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.

Sublocation

Region I

Insula

Insula III

Garden Description

At the rear of the house, excavated in 1868, there was a peristyle garden with a portico supported by three brick columns on the east and north sides. The south wall had a lararium painting and a crude animal painting on one corner of the south garden wall. This had been executed in the manner of a topiary painting according to the excavators, who reported a lion consuming a deer, below which there was a dog pouncing on a hare. A good view of the garden was obtained through the triclinium on the north.

Bibliography

Boyce, G.K. 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii, p. 24, no.261 (worldcat)
Fiorelli, G. 1860. Giornale degli scavi di Pompei, pp. 74, 150, no. 456 (worldcat)
Fiorelli, G. 1875. Descrizione di Pompei, pp. 56-57 (worldcat)
Jashemski, W.F. 1993. Gardens of Pompeii: Herculaneum and the villas destroyed by Vesuvius. Vol. II, Appendices, pp. 28, 313 (worldcat)
Matz, F. 1869. BdI, pp. 239-240
Niccolini, F. Le case ed i monumenti di Pompeii, Naples, Vol. II, p. 78
Schefold, n.d. WandP, p. 13
Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: Giannini, p. 225, no. 705
Warscher, T. 1937-1957. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus (worldcat), nos. 54

Keywords

Garden

Peristyle garden to the rear of a domestic property.

Places

Excavation Dates

Excavated c.1868.

I.3.25

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Province

Italia
Italia (Pleiades:1052)

Location

Pompeii (Pleiades:433032)

Location Description

An ancient city of Campania destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in CE 79, Pompeii was named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.

Sublocation

Region I

Insula

Insula III

Garden Description

A. This house had an irregular plan and a small peristyle garden enclosed on three sides by a low masonry wall. The wall was topped by four stuccoed brick columns which supported the portico. The excavation in 1869-72 showed that restoration was in progress at the time of the eruption. Inside the triclinium a small marble head of Bacchus from a herm (Mus. Naz. inv. no. 110 653) was found as well as a small marble ram (Mus. Naz. inv. no. 120 357), both probably garden decorations.

B. The viridarium lay across the entire width of the house to the rear. The west (rear) of the peristyle garden was completely open to the viridarium.

Bibliography

Döhl, H. 1976. Plastik aus Pompeji, Habilitationsschrift, Göttingen, p. 1
Fiorelli, G. 1860. Giornale degli scavi di Pompei, p. 74
Fiorelli, G. 1875. Descrizione di Pompei, p. 57 (worldcat)
Fiorelli, G. 1870-1873. GiornSc, n.s. 2, col. 461
Jashemski, W.F. 1993. Gardens of Pompeii: Herculaneum and the villas destroyed by Vesuvius. Vol. II, Appendices, p. 28 (worldcat)
Niccolini, F. Le case ed i monumenti di Pompeii, Naples, Vol. II, p. 78
Trendelenberg, A. 1871. BdI, p. 172
Warscher, T. 1937-1957. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus (worldcat)

Keywords

Garden

Peristyle garden in a domestic property with a viridarium to the rear.

Places

Excavation Dates

Excavated 1869.

I.3.3 House of Epidius Fortunatus

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Province

Italia
Italia (Pleiades:1052)

Location

Pompeii (Pleiades:433032)

Location Description

An ancient city of Campania destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in CE 79, Pompeii was named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.

Sublocation

Region I

Insula

Insula III

Garden Description

A. On the right of the tablinum were ten steps that led to the peristyle garden. A portico enclosed the garden on the west, north and east sides. This was supported by ten columns and two engaged columns which were stuccoed brick painted red. The north, east, and west edges of the garden had a gutter. There were two cistern openings, according to Mau, one located in the northeast corner of the garden with a tufa puteal and the other in the corresponding corner of the portico. Water emptied at the northeast corner from the gutter into the cistern and into the street at the southeast and southwest corners. An aqueduct pipe came out of the first column, (counting from the south on the west portico), and ran between the gutter and the portico. The pipe rose, supported from the second column on the west side, to spurt a jet of water in the gutter. Flanking the west and the north porticoes, it disappeared going to the northwest. On the west side it was possible in two places to let water flow into the gutter by a widening of the pipe. The gutter had openings to the gardens at these two points to serve as watering outlets. There were keys before and after the widen pipe sections to control the flow of water. Two branches of this pipe entered a room off the northwest corner of the peristyle where there was a basin.

B. The front of this house excavated in 1869 had an unusual design in that it was set back some distance from the street. The peristyle garden was entered at the end of the entranceway at the rear of a long angiprotus (alleyway). Rooms of the house were located at the right and rear of the garden. The peristyle) had undergone various changes and was supported on the east and north by tall tufa columns. The portico roof on the west was supported by two low brick columns and two pilasters surmounted by arches. A low wall enclosed the garden, joining the columns either side of the entrance between the two columns to the west. A terracotta puteal was adjacent to the west wall along with a hearth covered with a small vault decorated with a rough, bearded head supposed to be Vulcan. A large window on the south wall gave a view from the exedra into the garden. The east peristylewall contained a lararium niche and a gutter ran along the north, east, and west edges of the garden.

Bibliography

Boyce, G.K. 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii, p. 24, no.22 (worldcat)
Fiorelli, G. 1860. Giornale degli scavi di Pompei, p. 72 (worldcat)
Fiorelli, G. 1875. Descrizione di Pompei, p. 52-53 (worldcat)
GiornSc, n.s., 1868-1869, col.300-301
Jashemski, W.F. 1993, Gardens of Pompeii: Herculaneum and the villas destroyed by Vesuvius. Vol. II, Appendices, p. 26 (worldcat)
Niccolini, F. Le case ed i monumenti di Pompeii, Naples, Vol. II, p. 78
Warscher, T. 1937-1957. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, nos.16-21 (worldcat)

Keywords

Garden

Peristyle gardens in the House of Epidius Fortunatus.

Places

Excavation Dates

Excavated 1873.

I.3.30

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Province

Italia
Italia (Pleiades:1052)

Location

Pompeii (Pleiades:433032)

Location Description

An ancient city of Campania destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in CE 79, Pompeii was named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.

Sublocation

Region I

Insula

Insula III

Garden Description

This small house, excavated in 1872, had no atrium and the peristyle garden was to the right of the north end of the entrance passageway. A portico enclosed the garden on the west, north, and part of the south sides. Part of the portico had been closed to make rooms. Paintings of amorini decorated the peristyle with two little busts that may have been portraits of the owners. A lararium painting and an arched niche were located in the west wall of the peristyle. A small marble column with bas-relief of foliage most likely served as garden decoration.

Bibliography

Boyce, G.K. 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii, p. 24, no.29 (worldcat)
Fiorelli, G. 1860. Giornale degli scavi di Pompei, p. 75
Fiorelli, G. 1875. Descrizione di Pompei, p. 60 (worldcat)
Fiorelli, G. 1870-1873. GiornSc, n.s. 2, col. 462
Jashemski, W.F. 1993. Gardens of Pompeii: Herculaneum and the villas destroyed by Vesuvius. Vol. II, Appendices, p. 28 (worldcat)
Mau, A. 1874. BdI, pp. 185-186
Niccolini, F. Le case ed i monumenti di Pompeii, Naples, Vol. II, p. 49
Trendelenberg, A. 1871. BdI, p. 172
Warscher, T. 1937-1957. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus (worldcat)