VII.6.9 Pompeii.
Site of staircase to upper storey, situated on the east side of VII.6.8.
Excavated 1762, 1910. Bombed in 1943.
According to Garcia y Garcia Region VII, Insula VI was one of the insulae most devastated over the years since its excavation.
He calls it the “Cinderella” of Pompeii. Between the years 1759 and 1762 it was vandalised and stripped by the Bourbons, then re-interred.
Then came the slow and non-systematic uncovering again before the final destruction in September 1943.
The area was ignored and abandoned during the years following the war, which reduced the insula to a heap of bricks and masonry.
See Garcia y Garcia,
L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.102).
According
to Fiorelli –
Staircase
to an independent dwelling on the upper floor.
(Gradinata di cenacoli indipendenti, posti nel
piano superiore.)
See Pappalardo,
U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per
Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.160)
According
to NdS,
This was a
very narrow doorway that served to give access to a wooden stairway by which
one went up to a pergula
existing above the shop shown as room 58 on the plan.
(Vano molto stretto, che servi per dare accesso ad
una scaletta di legno per la quale si saliva su di una pergula esistente al
disopra della bottega n.58.)
See Notizie degli Scavi, 1910, p.461.
VII.6.9 Pompeii. 1910 plan by Spano. See Notizie
degli Scavi di Antichità, 1910, fig. 1, p. 437.
VII.6.9 Pompeii, on left. September 2021.
Remains of threshold
or sill leading to stairs to upper floor, on left side of entrance to shop at
VII.6.8, on right.
Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.6.9 Pompeii. May 2005. Remains of threshold or sill leading to stairs to upper floor.
VII.6.9 Pompeii. May 2011. East wall. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
VII.6.9 Pompeii. May 2011. East wall, with downpipe. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
