99. Villa San Marco, Stabiae.
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Room
62, nymphaeum
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, June 2019.
Garden area 9, looking south towards Nymphaeum 62/64, upper left. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, June 2019. Garden area 9, large garden
pot. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, September 2015. Looking towards south end of the garden area 9, on the east side.
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, June 2019.
Garden area 9, painted plaster on east wall near doorway to area 62, behind the nymphaeum, on right. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Villa San Marco,
Stabiae, September 2015.
Garden area 9, painted plaster on east wall near doorway to area 62, behind the nymphaeum.
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, September 2015. Garden area 9, stuccoed figure on upper east wall.
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, September 2015. Garden area 9, remains of painted plaster from east wall.
Villa San Marco,
Stabiae, June 2019.
Doorway to area 62 behind the nymphaeum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, September 2015. Doorway to area 62 behind the nymphaeum.
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, September 2015. Area 62, east wall.
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, June 2019. Area 62, looking south along tunnel. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, September 2015. Area 62, looking south along passageway.
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, September 2015. Area 62, window in east wall.
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, September 2015. Area 62, west wall in passageway.
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, September 2015. Area 62, north-east corner near doorway.
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, September 2015. Area 62, detail of north-east corner of passageway.
Room 64, nymphaeum
According to the information card –
“On the south end of the large portico with swimming pool was a curving wall (nymphaeum) subdivided into eight exhedrae plastered with polychrome stuccoes, architectural motives and animated views, acting as a sort of stage-front for the swimming pool.
The central niches contained mosaics representing The Rape of Europe and Frixus with Elle.
Immediately behind the nymphaeum runs a tunnel (numbered 62-63), only partly excavated, with the same curvature as the nymphaeum.”
Villa San Marco,
Stabiae, June 2019. Area 64, marble threshold. Photo courtesy of Buzz
Ferebee
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, September 2015. Area 64 on east side of garden area 9, looking south-west.
Villa San Marco, Stabiae. December 2007. Area 64, niche 8 containing stucco of the hunter.
Villa San Marco,
Stabiae. September 2019.
Area 64, niche 8 containing stucco of the hunter. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, September 2015. Area 64, niche 8 with stucco figure of the hunter.
Villa San Marco,
Stabiae, June 2019.
Area 64, stucco relief in niche 8 showing the hunter. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee
Villa San Marco, Stabiae. December 2007. Room 64, stucco relief in niche 8 showing the hunter.
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, September 2015. Area 64, niche 8, looking towards east side of niche
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, September 2015. Area 64, niche 8, looking towards west side of niche.
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, June 2019. Area 64, niches 8, 7 and 6, on south side of garden area. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee
Villa San Marco,
Stabiae, September 2015.
Area 64, niche 7, originally this would have contained a stucco relief of an athlete, which is now in Naples Archaeological Museum.
Below it are the remains of a painting of Diana and Acteon.
Villa San Marco, Stabiae. Area 64, stucco relief of athlete from central wall of niche 7 of the nymphaeum.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9578.
According to Parslow, this stucco relief of a gymnast with a hoop was removed in August 1752 and taken to the museum at Portici.
See Parslow, C.C. (1998). Rediscovering Antiquity: Karl Weber and the Excavation of Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabiae. UK, Cambridge UP (p. 178-9, fig.50)
Underneath this was a painting of Diana and Acteon.
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, September 2015. Area 64, niche 8, detail of remains of painting of Diana and Acteon.
Diana is the central figure, Acteon can just about be glimpsed to the right of the white mark at the top of the remaining plaster, on the right side of the photo.
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, September 2015. Area 64, niche 8, painting of Diana and Acteon.
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, September 2015. Area 64, remains of niche 6.
Villa San Marco,
Stabiae, September 2015.
Area 64, painting on lower part of niche 6 showing a person making an offering, with a tripod that cannot be seen in the photo.
Villa San Marco, Stabiae. Area 64, in the central niche on the south-east side of the nymphaeum, this mosaic was found.
Original mosaic showing Europa on the bull, discovered 23rd April 1752.
Now in the musée Condé de Chantilly, inventory number OA123. Photo RMN © R.G. Ojeda.
A reproduction of this mosaic can be seen in room 12.
See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi. (p. 239).
Villa San Marco,
Stabiae, June 2019. Lower peristyle and swimming pool information
card. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, June 2019.
Garden area 9, looking across pool towards the south-west side of the garden. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Villa San Marco,
Stabiae, June 2019.
Garden area 9, root cast of a plane tree, two rows of which were used to make shade. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee
Villa San Marco,
Stabiae, June 2019.
Garden area 9, root cast of a plane tree, two rows of which
were used to make shade. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, June 2019. Garden area 9, root cast of a plane tree, two rows of which were used to make shade.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, September 2015. Garden area 9, looking north-west across garden.
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, July 2010. Looking towards north end of pool from nymphaeum. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, 1976. Looking north-east across garden area from nymphaeum. 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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Villa San Marco, Stabiae, 1976. Looking from nymphaeum towards oecus at north end of pool 15. 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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Villa San Marco, Stabiae, 1968.
Looking north-east from nymphaeum across garden area and east portico towards Vesuvius. 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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Villa San Marco, Stabiae, 1961.
Looking north-east from nymphaeum across garden area and east portico during excavations, towards Vesuvius. 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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