IX.3.1 Pompeii. Workshop. Linked to IX.3.2.

Excavated 1847, 1851 and 1868. (Strada Stabiana 23).

IX.4 Pompeii, on left. September 2004. Unnamed vicolo, looking east from Via Stabiana near IX.3.1, on right.

On the north-west corner of the insula IX.3 (on the right), painted graffiti were found in September 1843:

Cn(aeum)  Helvium

Sabinum  aed(ilem)

vicini  fac[(iunt)]      [CIL IV 852]

L(ucium)  C(eium)  S(ecundum)  II vir(um)    [CIL IV 853]

See Pagano M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi.  (p.159)

According to Della Corte, another graffito with the name of Ubonius was found near to CIL IV 858 (see below).

It was found on the same wall but at the entrance of the vicolo, perhaps around the corner.

He thought that the word VICINI in CIL IV 852, of which the middle letters were hard to distinguish on the wall, was in fact VBONI.

The last line of the inscription should therefore read

U(bo)ni  fac[(iunt)]      [CIL IV 852]

See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p. 157).

IX.3.1 Pompeii, centre left, and IX.3.2, centre right. December 2018.

Entrance doorways on Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.3.1 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking east towards entrance from Via Stabiana.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.3.1 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance, looking east from Via Stabiana.

In September 1843, graffiti were found painted on the pilaster on the left:

Cn(aeum)  Helvium  Sabin(um)

aed(ilem)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)    [CIL IV 857]

C(aium)  Calventium  Sittium

II vir(um)  i(ure)  d(icundo)  Uboni  vigula    [CIL IV 858]

Also found in September 1843, on the pilaster on the right, between IX.3.1 and IX.3.2 a graffito was found reading

M(arcum)  Holconium

Priscum  aedil(em)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)    [CIL IV 860]

See Pagano M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi.  (p.159)

IX.3.1 Pompeii, on left. 1964.

Looking south-east to entrance. In the centre is the doorway to IX.3.2, to which it is joined. 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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IX.3.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway from vestibule of IX.3.2, looking north into workshop.

IX.3.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west into workshop.

South-west corner with site of steps to upper floor, latrine and gastrum urinarium in corner behind.

See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p412).

IX.3.1/2 Pompeii. c.1930. Mosaic floor of room on left of entrance corridor of IX.3.2.

It is believed that originally this room was linked to the atrium by a doorway at the south end of the east wall, and probably used as a triclinium.

Later its use was changed to a workshop.

This white mosaic floor with a simple border of black tesserae was decorated with a square “carpet” of a meander pattern including squares in four colours.

DAIR 41.714. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

See Pernice, E.  1938. Pavimente und Figürliche Mosaiken: Die Hellenistische Kunst in Pompeji, Band VI. Berlin: de Gruyter, see taf. 36.5)