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storage niche in the E wall (Fig. 5.41). Finds reported in the PAH include a broken bronze
cauldron (h. 0.22 m.), a bronze pastry-mould, a small bronze vase with lid, an iron knife blade
and a scraper, a glass cup, two carafes and bottle, three ceramic cups, three small terracotta vases
and two lids, several lamps, an amphora and two large ceramic "dripping pans" (scolatoi di acqua),
the intact one (l. 1.19, w. 0.79 m.) patched with lead. The list of finds contains clear evidence for
cooking and eating activity and suggests as well some kind of industrial production in the
"dripping pans", probably the terracotta moulds whose later misplacement in the neighboring
Casa del Pressorio Terracotta (I.4.22) gave their name to that house.
Shop #20 consists of one room, connected with a staircase with its own entrance off the
street at #21 to upper floor rooms. Fiorelli reports that two urns were sunk into the ground
underneath the stairs (Fig. 5.42). 30
References
Gassner 1986, 128; CTP II, 227, n. 1; CTP IIIA, 8-9; Della Corte 1954, 203 (#489b), 213 (#501)
[I.4.18]; Fiorelli 1875, 67; Fiorelli 1873, 69; Michaelis, BdI 1858, 133-134 [I.4.18]; PAH II, 662-663 (18
Mag - 12 Giu. 1858) [I.4.19].
Data (I.4.18)
A) Total area: 41.2 Nodes: 31.6 Connectors: 2.7 Static spaces: 10.3
B) Total # spaces: 3 # Nodes: 1 # Connectors: 1 # Static spaces: 1
Data (I.4.19)
A) Total area: 39.2 Nodes: 19.3 Connectors: 4.1 Static spaces: 19.5
B) Total # spaces: 3 # Nodes: 1 # Connectors: 1 # Static spaces: 1
Data (I.4.20- 21)
A) Total area: 18.7 Nodes: 18.0 Connectors: 5.0 Static spaces: 0.0
B) Total # spaces: 2 # Nodes: 1 # Connectors: 1 # Static spaces: 0
10. I.4.22, Casa del pressorio di terracotta, casa piccola
(Figs. 2.3, 5.2, 5.13, 5.43-5.44)
Synopsis
A long fauces (a) leads from the street to atrium (b), where a table (cartibulum) and a
puteal rest behind the impluvium. On the E, Fiorelli identified (f) as a cella penaria. Breton
reported a tub fitted with a furnace in ala (g), a work area that also contained a stair to the upper
floor next to KI (h). On the S side of the atrium, in the traditional position of the tablinum, is
30 Fiorelli 1875, 67 corrects Fiorelli 1873, 69, which reports three urns under the stair.
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