Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.
VII.7.22 Pompeii. October 2018. Looking south
to street altar.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.7.22 Pompeii. October 2018. Looking south
to remains of stucco on street wall, west of altar.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.7.22
Pompeii. October 2018. Looking south-east towards altar on south side of Vicolo
dei Soprastanti.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.7.22 Pompeii. 1832 drawing by Gell. Looking south across Vicolo dei Soprastanti to Jupiter altar.
See Gell, W, 1832. Pompeiana: Vol 1. London: Jennings and Chaplin, plate XI, p. 37.
Looking south on Vicolo dei Soprastanti towards altar with stucco relief above it.
See Wilkins H, Suite des Vues Pittoresque des
ruines de Pompei, 1819, p. 15 e pl. XVI.
VII.7.21/22 Pompeii. Street Altar as painted by Mazois.
According to Mau two pilasters supported an aedicula in which an eagle was seen.
This indicated that the shrine was dedicated to Jupiter.
Above the altar was a stucco relief representing a sacrifice.
Fiorelli described it as Ara Iovis with a Genius sacrificing, with two Lares and underneath a table and serpents.
See Mau, A., 1907,
translated by Kelsey F. W. Pompeii: Its
Life and Art. New York: Macmillan. (p. 235).
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.100)