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Caupona-Hospitium dei "Pulcinella" (I.viii.10)

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

Location

Sublocation

Region I

Insula

Insula VIII

House

House 10

Garden

Caupona-Hospitium dei "Pulcinella" (I.viii.10)

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Garden Description

A. This house had no atrium and the peristyle was entered directly from the street. The peristyle garden (a) was enclosed on the east and the south by a portico. Two lararium flanked the door to a basement on the north end of the east portico. The one on the right was well preserved with paintings of an altar, two Lares, serpents, and a rectangular niche painted with what appear to be poppies. When a layer of plaster crumbled from the wall in March 1949 it revealed a painting of a pottery shop and led Maiuri to believe that there had been a pottery shop entrance to the street from the room on the left. Two other paintings on the façade depict Mercury and costumed men attired as Neapolitan Punch and Judy puppets. This gave the house the identity as a caupona-hospitium of the "Pulcinella."

Plans

Fig. 1: Plan of Pompeii with Region I highlighted, plan in Jashemski, Gardens, p.21
Fig. 2: Plan of Region I, insula viii, plan in Jashemski, *Gardens*, plan 11, p.42; I.viii-ix: plan in Eschebach

Dates

unspecified

Excavation Date

Bibliography

  • Della Corte, Case, p. 326, no. 675.
  • Jashemski, Gardens, vol.II, pp. 42-43. (worldcat)
  • Maiuri, RM (1953-54), pp. 89-91 (the house is erroneously numbered I.v.10) on the plan, fig, 1.

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