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House of Successus (I.ix.3)

Contributor: June Dorsch
Published: 2021-04-21
Modified: 2025-06-29

Location

Sublocation

Region I

Insula

Insula IX

House

House 3

Garden

House of Successus (I.ix.3)

Keywords

Garden Description

A portrait of a little boy painted on the north wall of the cubiculum, to the left of the atrium, with the graffito PVER/SUCCUSSVS (CIL IV. 9992a) gave this house its name. Excavated in 1952, the garden (a) at the rear of the house had a portico, and a table base carved as a statuette of a small boy with a dove (Pompeii inv. no. 20395) was discovered in the north portico. Fig. 3, Fig. 4. The room in the southwest corner of the garden (b) had a garden representation on the large white middle panel on the south wall of the room. It was framed by a narrow reddish-brown border and painted in shades of brown and white on a light blue-green background. Two gardens enclosed by a wooden fence contained an open apse-shaped area in between them with a round pool. A jet in the center jetted water which descended in two separate streams. The gardens on the side were cut off by the frame. A figure across the front of the painting was perhaps a fence defining a passageway. Fig. 5.

Plans

Fig. 1: Plan of Pompeii with Region I highlighted, plan in Jashemski, Gardens, p.21
Fig. 2: Plan of Region I, insula ix, plan in Jashemski, *Gardens*, plan 12, p. 44

Images

Fig. 3: 18.15.59, S.A. Jashemski
Fig. 4: 18.16.59, S.A. Jashemski
Fig. 5: 18.22.59, S.A. Jashemski

Dates

unspecified

Excavation Date

1952

Bibliography

  • Della Corte, Case, p. 339, no. 723a.
  • Jashemski, Gardens, vol. 1, fig. 160 on p. 102 (for the portrait). (worldcat)
  • Jashemski, Gardens, vol.II, pp. 44; 395. (worldcat)
  • Maiuri, Pompeii, p. 82. (worldcat)
  • Schefold, WandP, p. 38.

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