I.4.5 Pompeii. Casa del Citarista or House of the Citharist or Casa di Apollo citaredo

or House of the Lyre Player or Domus L Popidius Secundus (Augustianus).

Linked to I.4.25 and I.4.28. Excavated between 1853-61,1868, 1872 and 1929. (Strada Stabiana 110).

We have combined the pictures of I.4.5 and 1.4.25.  See Quick outline      Detailed pictures      combined room plan

I.4.5 Pompeii, centre left. December 2018.

Looking north along east side of Via Stabiana, Insula I.4. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.4.5 Pompeii, on right. March 1922. Looking north along Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

I.4.5 Pompeii. September 2024.

Looking east towards entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

I.4.5 Pompeii, in centre, with I.4.6, on left, and I.4.4, on right. October 2019. Looking east towards entrance doorways.

Foto Tobias Busen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.4.5 Pompeii, in centre, with I.4.6, on left, and I.4.4, on right. March 2018. Looking east to entrances.

Foto Tobias Busen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.4.5 Pompeii. December 2018.

Entrance doorway, in centre. On the left is I.4.6, on the right is I.4.4. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.4.5 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking east on Via Stabiana through entrance doorway.

Foto Tobias Busen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR

I.4.5 Pompeii. September 2004. Entrance. Found here in April 1853 –

CIL IV 1003, written in red:

Caprasium

II vir(um) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis).

CIL IV 1004 written in black:

Secundum

II vir(um) v(iis) a(edibus) s(acris) p(ublicis) p(rocurandis) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis).

CIL IV 1005 written in black:

L(ucium) C(eium) S(ecundum) II vir(um) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis).

Found on the pilaster between I.4.6 and I.4.5, on the left,

CIL IV 1020 written in black above red:

L(ucium) P(opidium) S(aecundum) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis)

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi. (p.167-8)

I.4.5 Pompeii. May 2017. Entrance doorway, with name boards. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.4.5 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking east along entrance corridor towards atrium, and tablinum. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.4.5 Pompeii. September 2004. Entrance, looking east from fauces to atrium.

I.4.5 Pompeii. c.1930. According to Blake, this threshold was to be found in I.4.5.

See Blake, M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p.79, 85, & Pl.32, tav.4).

I.4.5 Pompeii. South side of exterior wall looking west along Vicolo del Menandro.