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the imperial court. 26 Suggella, bread stamps, of L. Rapinasius Optatus from ala (51) and Q.
Octavius Romulus from rooms (22-24) may reveal the names of other occupants of the house or
of upper-floor rooms; names of slaves such as Paris and Ikarus are also known. The house was
subject to tunneling and disturbance by survivors or scavengers after the eruption, especially in
the area of atrium (6) and the bath complex (40-41).
References
Jashemski 1993, 29-32; PPM I, 117-177; PPP I, 9-14; Richardson 1991, Italienische Reise 1989, 119-
123; CTP IIIA, 8-9; Gassner 1986, 128 (shop at #6); Laidlaw 1985, 58-59; Guide Laterza 1982, 86-88;
Dwyer 1982, 79-108, 151-162; Dwyer 1979, Bastet & De Vos 1979, 25-27, 90; Fabbricotti 1976, 74-76;
Schefold 1957, 14-17; Maiuri 1954b, 457-459; Della Corte 1954, 208-209, 213, 222; Maiuri 1942a,
145; Pernice 1938, 68-69; Elia 1937; Maiuri, NSc 1931, 575-576; Mygind 1924, 5-12; Overbeck 1884,
359-366; Mau 1882, 64, 251-252, 411-413; Fiorelli 1875, 61-68; Fiorelli 1873, 65-67; Breton 1869, 480-
481, 488-493, Brunn BdI 1863, 101-102; Lugebil BdI 1861, 239-240; Minervini BAN 1853 (2), 65-72,
117-118, 1859 (7), 129-132; PAH II, 581 (18 Ott., 1853), 583, 586-587, 659, 662-663, 666-667, 670-673,
684-688.
Data
A) Total area: 27 2502.8 Nodes: 1245.2 Connectors: 145.2 Static spaces: 1116.8
B) Total # spaces: 88 # Nodes: 8 # Connectors: 16 # Static spaces: 53
C) Area, KI (42): 17.0 Area, KI (64): 10.9
Area, DH•(18): 28.6 Length, DH•(18): 4.84 Width, DH•(18): 5.90
Area, DH•(19): 75.5 Length, DH•(19): 11.6 Width, DH•(19): 6.59
Area, DR•(20): 26.5 Length, DR•(20): 6.19 Width, DR•(20): 4.28
Area, DH•(35): 65.8 Length, DH•(35): 9.0 Width, DH•(35): 7.31
Area, DR•(37): 21.2 Length, DR•(37): 5.69 Width, DR•(37): 3.73
Area, DH◊(53): 19.4 Length, DH◊(53): 3.79 Width, DH◊(53): 5.13
Area, DH•(57): 32.4 Length, DH•(57): 6.60 Width, DH•(57): 5.19
Area, DR•(58): 19.7 Length, DR•(58): 5.17 Width, DR•(58): 3.80
D) Entry prox., KI (42) to #5: 38.6 Entry prox., KI (64) to #25: 33.0
Entry prox., DH•(18) to #5: 37.6 Prox, KI (42)-DH•(18): 12.8
26 L. Popidius Secundus Augustianus seems to have been a member of the Augustiani, a goup of young
nobles organized by Nero in A.D. 59. It also has been argued that Augustianus and perhaps the other
residents were freedmen or members of a servile branch of an old family that was revived under Augustus
(for the arguments, see Dwyer 1982, 85-86; Italienische Reise, 120; PPM I, 117-118; Castrén 1975, 207-209;
Mouritsen 1988, 22, 146-147; Della Corte 1954, 208-213).
27 Fiorelli 1873, 65 provides a figure of 2471.52 m 2 , a more accurate number than the commonly cited figure
of 2700 m 2 (Guida Laterza 1982, 86).
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