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Pompeii: House of the Citharist, impluvium (I 4, 5)
Pompeii: House of the Citharist, impluvium (photo: Athena Review)
House of the Citharist or Domus Lucius Popidius Secundus (I. 4.5)
"View of atrium with impluvium. Located at via Stabiana 110. Excavated between 1853-61,1868,1872 and 1929.
"Inscription
on the pilaster between I.4.5 and I.4.6, on the left, written in black
above red: L(ucium) P(opidium) S(aecundum) o(ro) v(os)
f(aciatis) [CIL IV: 1420]
The House of the Citharist has two main entrances, one opening off the east side of the Via Stabiana and the other opening off the south side of the Via dell'Abbondanza. It is one of the Pompeii's largest aristocratic houses, created by joining two houses together; No. 5 (also known as the House of L. Popidius Secundus) and No. 25 (nominally the House of L. Rapinasi Optati). The house was initially excavated between 1853 and 1861 and again in 1868, 1872 and 1929.
The fauces opens off the south side of the Via dell'Abbondanza onto a rectangular atrium with a central impluvium and puteal. A wide portal on the south side of the atrium opens onto the first of three peristyles
In
one of the cubicula, the central panels on each wall originally
contained large mythological scenes, but these were are removed and
taken to the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. The scene on the
north wall was of the Love of Mars and Venus. On the east wall the
scene depicted Apollo and Poseidon at the Court of Laomedon while that
on the south wall showed the legend of Leda and the Swan.
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