I.3.24 House of Capella

Contributor: Jessica Venner
Published: 2021-04-21
Modified: 2025-06-29

Province

Location

Location Description

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

Sublocation

Region I

Insula

Insula III

Keywords

Garden

Peristyle garden to the rear of a domestic property.

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

Places

Excavation Dates

Excavated c.1868.

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