DRAFT

V.iv.a/11

Contributor: Jianing Zhou
Published: 2020-09-29
Modified: 2025-06-29

Province

Province Description

The Italian peninsula extending northward to the Alps as recognized by the Romans.

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 V

Insula

Insula iv

House

House a/11

Garden

V.iv.a/11

Keywords

Garden Description

B. At the rear of this house a peristyle garden (b) was bordered on the south by a portico. Three columns and an engaged column, stuccoed and fluted on the top, red at the bottom, supported the portico. A large animal painting occupied three walls of the peristyle garden with a bold checkerboard above and a black dado at the base painted with stylized plants and flowers. The west wall featured a garden representation on the predella. The garden is entered through a tall portal with a round oscillum suspended beneath a crater-shaped vase on the top of the entry. The front fence forms an excedra on either side of the entrance and shrubbery painted in green is shown along the front. Garden representations cover the entire dado (0.55 x 3.50 m.) of both the north and south walls of the tablinium. On a black background a garden is enclosed by an elaborate fence that suggests marble with a curvilinear and rectilinear design. The garden on the north wall a large semicircle in the center has a footed circular fountain with a water jet in the center, the water falling in two streams. The south wall has a crater-shaped fountain in an angular niche. Flowers bloom in lavender and white while birds sit on the fence in both paintings. A white flower garland graces the base of the paintings and traces of a schola are visible on the north wall.

Dates

Unspecified

Excavation Dates

1900CE

Bibliography

  • Bastet, p. 66. (worldcat)
  • Curtius, Wandmalerei, fig. 33. (worldcat)
  • Jashemski, Gardens, 1:71 and fig. 115b on p. 71, 1:79 and fig. 128 on p. 78. (worldcat)
  • Idem, Gardens, vol.II, pp. 116, 336, 396-397. (worldcat)
  • Mau, RM (1901), pp. 338, 356, plan pl. 13. (worldcat)
  • Michel, pp. 390-391. (worldcat)
  • PPP, 2:87, 89, 90-91. (worldcat)
  • Schefold, RM, (1953-1954), pp. 113, 117. (worldcat)
  • Idem, WändP, pp. 85, 87.
  • Sogliano, NSc (1901), pp. 155, 163, 164-166 and figs. 15 and 15. (worldcat)
  • Warscher, "Flora pompei" p. 36.

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