I.4.22

Excavation Dates

Excavated 1858 and 1862.

Garden Description

Directly to the rear of the atrium, a small viridarium with a paved space (1.70 x 2.50m) behind it suggested use as a summer triclinium to Fiorelli. Soprano was certain that there was an outdoor triclinium of wood or other material located here.

Bibliography

• Fiorelli, G. 1860. Giornale degli scavi di Pompei, p. 69
• Fiorelli, G. 1875. Descrizione di Pompei, p. 68 (worldcat)
• Jashemski, W.F. 1993. Gardens of Pompeii: Herculaneum and the villas destroyed by Vesuvius. Vol. II, Appendices, p. 32 (worldcat)
• Niccolini, F. Le case ed i monumenti di Pompeii, Naples, Vol. II, p. 80
• 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
• Schefold, K. and Dräyer, W. 1956. Pompeji, p. 307, no. 29 (also incorrectly calls the garden a room)

Keywords

• atriums (Roman halls) (AAT:300004097)
• triclinia (rooms) (AAT:300004359)

Garden

Garden with a triclinium at the rear of a domestic property.

Places

• Regio I, Pompeii (Pleiades:222138654)
• Pompeii (Pleiades:433032)
• Pompeii (deserted settlement) (TGN:7004658)