16. Boscoreale. Villa Pompeiani di Publio Fannio Sinistore. Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor.
In later times the Villa of L. Herius Florus or Lucius Herennius Florus.
Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. 1900. West wall of cubiculum M.
Note the double black band in the white mosaic floor and the right angled turn at the start of the alcove.
See Barnabei F., 1901. La villa pompeiana di P. Fannio Sinistore. Roma: Accademia dei Lincei. p. 72, Tav. X.
Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. West wall of cubiculum M.
Drawing of excavations published in il Secolo Illustrato, 6th January 1901, No. 573, p. 5.
Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. West wall of cubiculum M.
Drawing of excavations published in Illustrated London News, 22nd December 1900.
Drawn by G. Amato at the scene of the excavations.
Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. 1903. Room M, cubiculum. East wall.
According to Sambon this measured 3.83m by 2.45m.
See Sambon A, 1903. Les Fresques de Boscoreale. Paris and Naples: Canessa. pl. X.
Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. Cubiculum M. South end of the west wall.
Panel painted with buildings, an ornate door, an altar and a statue on a column.
At the top of the panel is a mask and, on the right, a red column ornately painted with flowers and climbers.
The painting has a considerable amount of detail not visible in the photo.
There are people in the window and above the door frame, there are phalluses along the canopy.
See Bergmann B., 2010, in Roman Frescoes from Boscoreale. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 30-1, figs. 68-72.
Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. Cubiculum M, second panel from south end of west wall.
According to Barnabei, this wall painting depicts a golden statue of Diana Hecate bearing torches.
She was the goddess who scattered her benefits on the end of life on those who protected it.
She welcomed them, in peace underground, among the ranks of the blessed in the happiness of Elysium.
In the painting she has a gold crown with serpents’ heads and necks on the top.
Her chest was crossed by a white band to which was attached the quiver, visible behind the right shoulder.
She is within a sacred portal wrapped in yellow ribbons.
From the portal hangs a bearded mask of an old Silenus above which a lintel is supported on the wings of two swans.
On top of the lintel are two silver urns and between them is a round gold shield.
At the base is a small red walled area with an altar with offering on top and two vases on benches.
Either side are red columns painted with flowers and climbers.
See Barnabei F., 1901. La villa pompeiana di P. Fannio Sinistore. Roma: Accademia dei Lincei. p.74, Fig. 17.
Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. 1900. Cubiculum M, second panel from south end of west wall.
Wall painting of Diana Hecate bearing torches, within a sacred portal wrapped in yellow ribbons.
She was the goddess who protected the end of life.
See Barnabei F., 1901. La villa pompeiana di P. Fannio Sinistore. Roma: Accademia dei Lincei. p.74, Fig. 17.
Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. Cubiculum M, second panel from north end of west wall.
Panel painted with buildings, an ornate door, an altar and a statue on a column.
At the top of the panel is a mask and on the left a red column ornately painted with flowers and climbers.
The painting also has a considerable amount of detail not visible in the photo.
The square column on the right marks the division between the end of the cubiculum and the start of the alcove.
According to Barnabei, this square column, separated two distinct decorations, that of the front room and that of the alcove.
Both however were within the same architectural structure, the Corinthian order, as in the other rooms.
See Barnabei F., 1901. La villa pompeiana di P. Fannio Sinistore. Roma: Accademia dei Lincei. p. 71-81.
Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. Cubiculum M alcove, north end of the west wall.
This temple and architectural colonnade scene are within the alcove at the north end of the cubiculum.
The same scene is mirrored on the south wall of the alcove.
Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. 1903 painting.
Room M, cubiculum alcove west wall.
According to Sambon this measured 2.45m by 1.62m.
See Sambon A, 1903. Les Fresques de Boscoreale. Paris and Naples: Canessa. 45, p. 24, pl. IX.
Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. Cubiculum M.
North-west corner within bed alcove.
Note the painting of the red column on the north wall was truncated by the window.
Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. Cubiculum M, alcove, north wall.
Note the scenes are more pastoral, perhaps to link with the view from the window?
Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. 1903 painting. Room M, cubiculum north wall.
According to Sambon this measured 3.26m by 2.45m.
See Sambon A, 1903. Les Fresques de Boscoreale. Paris and Naples: Canessa. p. 24-5, pl. VIII.
Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. Cubiculum M, centre of north wall.
Detail of painting of glass bowl with fruit.
According to Bergmann, this glass is a puzzle as the painting was made decades before such clear blown glass was first introduced to Italy.
See Bergmann B., 2010, in Roman Frescoes from Boscoreale. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 30.
Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. Cubiculum M, east end of north wall.
Copy of painting of outdoor scene with grotto, fountain, a hill and a trellised arbour supporting clusters of ripe purple grapes.
Now in Boscoreale Antiquarium.
Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. 1906. Cubiculum M, east end, north wall.
Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. Cubiculum M, east end of north wall.
Detail of painting of grotto with bird and plants and fountain.
Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. Cubiculum M.
Mosaic striped with five rows alternatively white and red and white and black.
This formed a threshold between the alcove and the cubiculum.
See Barnabei F., 1901. La
villa pompeiana di P. Fannio Sinistore. Roma: Accademia dei Lincei. p72.
Now in Boscoreale
Antiquarium.