91. HGE12 Pompeii. Villa delle Colonne a Mosaico or Villa of the Mosaic Columns.
Herculaneum Gate East Side. (Eschebach East 12, Kockel Nord 12).
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HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. September 2024.
The columns in Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. September 2024.
The columns in
Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. September 2024.
Two of the four columns
in Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. 2012. The four mosaic columns in Naples Archaeological Museum.
Inventory numbers from left to right are 9995, 9996, 10000, 10001. Photo courtesy of Carlo Raso.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. September 2024.
The columns in Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. August 2016.
Detail of two of
the columns on display in Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Maribel Velasco.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. September 2024.
Detail of two of the columns on display in
Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. August 2016.
Detail
from column on display in Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Maribel Velasco.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. September 2024.
Two
of the four columns on display in Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. 2001. The columns in Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Current Archaeology.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. 1870 painting by W. Zahn of one of the mosaic columns, centre.
The other items shown are not from here.
See Zahn W.,
1870. Ornamente aller klassischen
Kunst-Epochen nach den Originalen in ihren eigenthümlichen Farben. Berlin:
Reimer, p. 5, Taf. 60.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. 1842 drawing by N. La Volpe of the frieze on one of the mosaic columns.
According to the ICCD database, the designs present, at the top, a frieze with a marine group composed of a Nereid brought by a sea monster and tritons on dolphins; At the bottom is a Mosaic column decorated with scales, frieze with heraldic animals, floral motifs, and frieze with marine group. The drawing depicts one of the mosaic columns coming from the Villa of the mosaic columns of Pompeii, now preserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (Inventory numbers. 9995-9996, 10000-10001).
Drawing now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS1125.
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HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. Two of the mosaic columns.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory numbers 10000 (front) and 10001 (rear).
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. September 2024.
Detail from mosaic column, inv. no. 10000.
Photo courtesy of
Giuseppe Ciaramella.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. September 2024.
Detail from column on display in Naples Archaeological
Museum. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. 1842 drawing by N. La Volpe of the frieze on one of the mosaic columns.
According to the ICCD database, the drawing depicts a frieze with three "Retiarii" Cupids, each of which, armed with a lance, is intent on striking a deer.
It is the frieze of one of the mosaic columns coming from the Villa of the mosaic columns of Pompeii, now preserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (Inventory numbers. 9995-9996, 10000-10001).
Drawing now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS1126.
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HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. September 2024.
Detail of stag and cupids lower on the mosaic column.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 10000.
Photo
courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. 1842 drawing by N. La Volpe of the frieze on one of the mosaic columns.
According to the ICCD database, the drawing depicts a column decorated with mosaic motifs with scales in the lower third, a headband with garland of leaves, floral motifs in the middle third, and a frieze with cupids hunting, and floral motifs in the upper third topped with a headband of a garland of leaves. It is one of the mosaic columns coming from the Villa of the mosaic columns of Pompeii, now preserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (Inventory numbers. 9995-9996, 10000-10001).
Drawing now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS1124.
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HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns.
Detail of second floral design below stag and figures, lower on mosaic column.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 10000.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. Detail of geometric design and base of mosaic column.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 10000.
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. Mosaic fountain.
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. Mosaic fountain.
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. Mosaic fountain with apsed niche.
According to Jashemski, at the top of the shell which decorated the large niche was a Nereid on a sea-bull.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.277)
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. Centrepiece of mosaic fountain.
According to Jashemski, in the large niche was a smaller one which may have held a fountain statue.
From the smaller niche, decorated with a garden scene, water flowed down steps into the basin below.
(This is described as being “Mosaic Fountain, House
of the Madusa or Medusa”.)
Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum. Inventory
number 7774.
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. Mosaic urn with bird in centrepiece of small niche of mosaic fountain.
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. Water steps cascade.
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. South side of mosaic fountain.
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. North side of mosaic fountain.
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking north across garden towards courtyard.
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking north towards courtyard and entrance HGE14. This is the site of the Samnite graves.
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking north from near entrance HGE14.
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking north towards entrance to central corridor of northern building complex.
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