VII.9.32 Pompeii. Steps to upper floor.

Excavated 1822 (Vico d’Eumachia 18)

According to Fiorelli –

VII.9.29-31.

Con due altre botteghe, che costituivano un termopolio termina questo lato dell’isola. La prima ha la scaletta, ed una cella dietroposta: la seconda oltre il banco di fabbrica co’rispondenti scalini, per tenervi sopra bicchieri e stoviglie, ha una seconda gradinata, una della piu interna con focolare ed uscita nei vico ad oriente, e l’adito di una scala portante a stanze superiori. Poco discosto leggesi –

C. LOLLIVM.FVSCVM.AED.

(trans: this side of the insula ended with two other shops, which constituted a thermopolium. The first had the stair-ladder, and a room behind it: the second apart from the masonry bench with corresponding steps/shelves, to keep glasses and dishes on top, had a second stairs, one of the rooms most internal with hearth and exit onto the eastern vicolo, and the entrance doorway to a staircase leading to the upper rooms. Nearby was read –

C. LOLLIUM.FUSCUM.AED.)

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.106).

VII.9.32 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking west to entrance for steps to upper floor.

VII.9.32 Pompeii. December 2005. Steps to upper floor.

VII.9.32 Pompeii. December 2005. Site of steps to upper floor, at front. At rear is a room on the north side of the atrium of VII.9.33, looking west.