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A cache of cooking and serving vessels was found in the space beneath the stairs; they
included one squat bronze vessel, nine pots of various shapes, two jugs, two plates, two shallow
bowls and one large flat mixing bowl, several with signs of burning on their surfaces. 41 Della
Corte (NSc 1912, 251) interprets these vessels as belonging to the operation of a lunch counter (he
uses the term 'termopolio'). He reports that large terracotta jars were immured in the street-front
section of the counter that had collapsed, that a stepped shelf was present on the E where
samples of food and drink could be displayed, and that a glass jug shown a quarter full of red
wine was painted on the exterior face of the counter. The end of the counter was widened and
not topped with marble revetment, leaving space for a smoke-blackened HE of sub-type (4), for
which only the foundations survive (Fig. 5.55). Those living above the ground-floor lunch
counter probably used the built-in stove and vessels to serve themselves as well as their
customers.
References
PPM I, 330-331, Sutherland 1990, 88-112; Rediscovering Pompeii 1990, 205-207, #123; Gassner
1986, 129; PPP I, 32; CTP IIIA, 10-11; Della Corte 1954, 239, #582; Della Corte 1927, 17-18; Della
Corte NSc 1912, 182, 248, 250-251, 257.
Data
A) Total area: 33.0 Nodes: 22.6 Connectors: 4.9 Static spaces: 8.3
B) Total # spaces: 3 # Nodes: 1 # Connectors: 1 # Static spaces: 1
C) Area, HE in (1): 2.5
19. I.6.7, Fullonica di Stephanus, (work)shop-house
(Figs. 1.1, 2.4, 2.20, 5.16, 5.56-5.57)
Synopsis
A fullonica was carefully installed here within a pre-existing atrium house after A.D. 62.
The implantation of a fullery on the premises changed the plan in several ways. Peristyle garden
(p) of that original house once took up its entire width, before ceding a strip on its W edge to
Casa (I.6.8-9). Node (b) was enlarged from an entranceway at the expense of room (a), and room
(c) was bought from the shop (I.6.5-6). The impluvium in atrium (e) was converted into a work-
basin for washing clothes, another door from the atrium was opened directly onto corridor (i),
41 Della Corte NSc 1912, 250-251: "...adibito a deposito di stoviglie. Vi si sono rinvenuti molti vasi di
terracotta, alcuni dei quali dal fondo annerito pel contatto col fuoco: pignatte circolari senza anse, a fondo
bombato, quattro; sferoidali biansate, due; piatti rustici, due; piccole scodelle aretine, due; una pelvi larga m.
0.36, col bollo due volte impresso sull'orlo, C.I.L. X, 8048: M. Ma(rius) Primi(genius); una grossa lucerna
monolychne di m. 0.11 di diametro, dal disco adorno di una corona di foglie impresse; e con le descritte
terrecotte, un vaso di bronzo panciuto ad orlo tondo, alto m. 0.11, al quale fu adattata per ansa la parte
inferiore di un'ansa di altro vaso più grande, desinente in giù in foglia di vite".
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