VI.16.28 Pompeii. House of Coponii or Casa
della Caccia di Tori.
Excavated 1904.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room C, round table (c) in atrium.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room I, oecus.
According to NdS, this doorway led to a rather spacious room on the south side of the tablinum.
It had flooring made of mortar.
Its walls had a white background with mediocre painted decoration, which was preserved in part on the east, south and west walls.
The principal spaces of the walls were divided into large panels, three on the east and south wall, and with two on the west wall, between them were columns with red bands, dividing the panels.
Underneath was a dado with representations of plants, nothing remained of the frieze.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room I, east wall.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Room I, zoccolo/dado with painted plants.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1676.
According to PPM –
“In the south wall you can recognise the zoccolo/dado with flowering plants, while the middle area was already incomplete at the time of excavation.”
See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici. V.(5). Roma:
Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p.942-3, no.23).
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room I, east wall, remains of painted plaster.
According to PPP in the centre of this wall was a painting of Europa on the Bull.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p. 369).
According to NdS, in the central panel of the east wall, one could see the painting of Europa on the Bull, without a cornice.
Nothing was preserved of the paintings on the southern wall.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room I, west wall, remains of painted plaster.
According to NdS, although the other walls showed three panels on each wall, because of the space taken up by the doorway in the west wall, this wall only had two painted panels. The panel on the left showed a painting of a vase.
The panel on the right, opposite the one on the east wall with the painting of Europa on the Bull, showed a scene of the sea or a lake.
There were three boats that seemed to be making for a landing place on the right, pushed by the crew that were rowing with the oars.
There one could see, here and there, male figures, the most notable in the lower part, the middle and one walking to the right, carrying a large beam on his shoulders. The cornice was missing, and the upper painting was damaged.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908, (p.279)
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room I, west wall, pointing (not touching) to small painted figures.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room I, west wall, painted figures and boat. According to PPP this is a sea scene.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p. 369).
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room I, west wall, small painted figure.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room I, west wall, small painted figure carrying a beam, below him a painted boat.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room I, west wall, painted boat.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room I, west wall, two painted figures and the boat.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room I, west wall, pointing (but not touching) to a small figure.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room I, west wall, small painted figures.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room I, west wall, painted plaster.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west across room C, atrium, towards doorway to room D, cubiculum.
According to NdS, the doorway to the room had a threshold of lava and with signs of wood towards the atrium.
The room was rather large, and its upper walls were coated with simple white rough plaster, and below by a high black dado.
The dado was divided into large panels by means of slender red bands.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908, (p.271)
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room D, west wall.
According to NdS, in the height of the west wall was a small window that overlooked the Vicolo dei Vettii.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room D, south wall and south-west corner with recess.
According to NdS, at the extremity of the south wall was the recess for the bed.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room D, north wall and north-west corner.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room C, cistern (b) on west side of atrium.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room C, atrium.
Wall between doorway to room D and room A on west side of atrium, with downpipe to cistern (b).
VI.16.28 Pompeii. July 2008. Room C, atrium, looking west. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.
VI.16.28 Pompeii. July 2008.
Looking south-west in room C towards pilaster between rooms D and A. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.
According to Hobson, occasionally narrow bore pipes might bring the rainwater directly off the roof directly into the cistern.
See Hobson, B., 2009. Latrinae et foricae: Toilets in the Roman World. London; Duckworth. (p.117, and fig 119)
According to Hobson, this pipe had an external diameter of 10cm, whereas the other two found from upper floors had a diameter of 18cm.
See Hobson, B. 2009. Pompeii, Latrines and Down Pipes. Oxford, Hadrian Books, (p.290 and p.295)
Fountain outside VI.16.28 on Vicolo dei Vettii, looking north. May 2005.
Fountain outside VI.16.28 on Vicolo dei Vettii, December 2005.
Vicolo dei Vettii looking south from near fountain at VI.16.28. December 2007.