I.15.3 Pompeii. House of Ship Europa or Casa della Nave Europa.
Linked to I.15.2.
Excavated 1951-61, 1972, 1973 and 1975.
Quick Outline
This page has been created to give a quick appreciation of the main rooms and areas of the interesting House of Ship Europa without the need to navigate the many detailed pages of photographs.
Detail
If you are then interested to see the house in more detail, the rooms are shown in greater detail in the subsequent parts, followed by the photos of the Jashemski excavations in 1972 and 1973.
I.15.3 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking
south through entrance doorway.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
The
house was named after the graffito wall painting found on the north wall of the
peristyle.
The
painting showed a ship with the inscription “Europa”.
I.15.3 Pompeii. September 2015.
Room 5, entrance vestibule, looking south
along east wall towards peristyle.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.15.3 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking south-east across peristyle 13, from near
entrance.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.15.3 Pompeii.
July 2021. Room 6, looking through doorway towards west wall and north-west
corner.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.15.3 Pompeii. July 2021.
Room 4, looking north through doorway of
small room on east side of entrance corridor/vestibule.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.15.3
Pompeii. May 2010. North wall of portico 10. The outline of a ship is just
visible with careful study.
I.15.3 Pompeii. 1972. North wall of portico 10. Ship Europa. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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I.15.3
Pompeii. May 2010.
Looking
east along north portico 10 of peristyle 13. The doorway on the left leads to
room 3 and entrance I.15.2.
I.15.3
Pompeii. May 2010. Room 3. Looking north towards entrance I.15.2 from Via di
Castricio.
I.15.3
Pompeii. May 2010. Looking north into room 2 in north-east corner, next to
triclinium 1.
I.15.3 Pompeii. September 2015. Bench or hearth at east end of north side of
portico 10, with doorway to triclinium 1, on right.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.15.3 Pompeii. July 2021. Triclinium 1,
looking east from entrance doorway in
north-east corner of peristyle 13.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.15.3 Pompeii. July 2021. Looking
north-east across peristyle, from west side, with entrance doorway, on left.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.15.3
Pompeii. May 2010. Doorway to room 9, kitchen, the doorway to the latrine is
centre left.
I.15.3
Pompeii. December 2007. Room 9, base of stairs to upper floor in kitchen.
I.15.3
Pompeii. May 2010. Room 9. Door on upper floor in south wall of kitchen,
leading to upper pergola.
I.15.3
Pompeii. December 2007. Room 11 in south-west corner of peristyle, next to
kitchen.
The
stairs in the kitchen, room 9, would have led to the door on the upper floor.
Looking north.
I.15.3 Pompeii.
September 2015. Looking east along south wall of portico 10 towards
triclinium 12.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.15.3 Pompeii. May 2010. Doorway from portico 10
to triclinium 12 on south-east side of peristyle 13.
I.15.3 Pompeii. September 2015. Triclinium 12, looking towards
south-east corner.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.15.3 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking south across room
14, garden area.
In the enormous garden at the rear of the houses on
the north side of the insula, roots from an orchard, vineyard and vegetable
garden were discovered.
According to Laurence a market garden was
identified in the south-eastern area of Insula 15.
Produce included grapes, olives, nuts, fruit and
vegetables. These were probably sold elsewhere in the city.
Similar planting schemes were excavated in the 19th
century at VI.6.1 and IX.1.20.”
See Laurence R., 1994. Roman Pompeii: Space and
Society. London: Routledge, p. 67.
I.15.3 Pompeii. 1959.
Looking north across the enormous garden of I.15 from above the columns of I.21, with I.15.5 and 6, on the right. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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More details of the Jashemski excavations here in 1972 and 1973 can be seen at the end of the detailed house photos.