I.8.16 Pompeii. Side entrance to I.8.15 and stairs to upper floor.

Excavated 1936, 1941.

I.8.16 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway. 

I.8.16 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance on Vicolo dell’Efebo.

I.8.16 Pompeii. December 2007.

Looking east from entrance towards rear rooms, with a niche in the north wall of the most easterly room, perhaps the kitchen.

I.8.16 Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking towards north wall with arched niche. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.8.16 Pompeii. December 2018. North wall with arched niche. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.8.16 Pompeii. December 2018. Niche in north wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.8.16 Pompeii. December 2007. Niche in north wall.

I.8.16 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking towards south wall with square niche. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.8.16 Pompeii. December 2018.

Upper south wall with downpipe. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.8.16 Pompeii. December 2018.

South wall with route of downpipe. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.8.16 Pompeii. December 2018.

Lower south wall with square niche/recess and site of downpipe, on right. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.8.16 Pompeii. December 2018.

Square niche in south wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.8.16 Pompeii. December 2018.

Detail of square niche/recess. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.8.16 Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking towards south wall, with podium? at its base. On the left is the adjoining hole-in-the-wall, with I.8.14. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.8.16 Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking east through hole-in-the wall into I.8.14. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.8.16 Pompeii, from I.8.14.

Looking west through a hole in the wall from I.8.14, into the uncovered area, described as having a kitchen podium, and the channel to convey the waters from the adjoining house at I.8.14.

I.8.16 Pompeii, looking through a hole in the wall from I.8.14. Looking west into the open area described as a kitchen.

See Castiglione, V., Del Franco, M., and Vitale, R: “L’insula 8 della Regio I, un campione d’indagine socio-economica”, Rivista di Studi Pompeiani, Vol III, 1989, (p.185-221).

I.8.16 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking north-east across room/garden towards doorway to kitchen area. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

The outer west wall of the kitchen area, centre left with remaining plaster, would have been the east wall of a small room, possibly a cubiculum.

The doorway to this room would have been at the south end, next to the kitchen doorway.

I.8.16 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east from entrance doorway.

I.8.16 Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking south-east across room/garden towards doorway to kitchen area, on left, and to a triclinium, on right.

The doorway, on the right, would have led into one of the rear rooms of I.8.15.

This doorway may have led into a triclinium for the clients. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.8.16 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east from entrance doorway, triclinium for clients?

I.8.16 Pompeii. December 2018. Bench or podium against east wall (of triclinium?). Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.8.16 Pompeii. September 2005. Structure against the east wall.

I.8.16 Pompeii. December 2018. Basin or trough, next to south wall and near doorway to I.8.15. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.8.16 Pompeii. September 2005.

Doorway in south wall of triclinium, leading to one of the rear rooms at I.8.15.

I.8.16 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking south-west across room/garden towards doorway to rear room of I.8.15, on left.

On the right is the entrance doorway on Vicolo dell’Efebo, which gave access to the stairs to the upper floor.

Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.8.16 Pompeii, on left. December 2007.        Looking south along Vicolo dell’Efebo.                 I.7.13/14, on the right.

Front wall between I.8.17 and I.8.16 on Vicolo dell’Efebo. September 2005.