House of Successus (I.ix.3)

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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.

Gardens of the Roman Empire

House of Successus (I.ix.3)

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Garden

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Garden Description

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