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latrine on the second floor survives today. 49 Simple 4th style decoration, including a pedestaled
figure rendered in a crude, folksy style on the S wall of (m') (PPM I, 398, #1), covers the walls.
Within the shop were found more than 220 bronze and iron items, including numerous
agricultural implements, horse trappings, tools, keys, hinges, hooks, knives and even shackles.
Only five vessels were among the finds, and they do not indicate that either cooking or eating
was carried out on the premises. Because no hearths or forges for making or fixing the metal
items were found, this shop appears to have been exclusively for retail. Della Corte ascribed the
property to one Iunianus; Gralfs has recently suggested that the shop was a point of sale for the
wares of one P. Pilonius Felix, whose manufacturing center was located elsewhere. This shop is
presently used as a local office for site custodians.
References
PPM I, 397-399; PPP I, 39; Gralfs 1988, 84-86; CTP IIIA, 10-11; Gassner 1986, 130; Guida Laterza
1982, 101; Guida 1976, 193; Schefold 1957, 26; Della Corte 1954, 236-237, #576; Maiuri NSc 1929,
427-430; Della Corte 1927, 15; Della Corte NSc 1912, 336, 354-356, 402.
Data
A) Total area: 56.1 Nodes: 38.8 Connectors: 6.6 Static spaces: 18.6
B) Total # spaces: 3 # Nodes: 1 # Connectors: 1 # Static spaces: 1
24. I.6.13-14, Casa di Stallius Eros, casa media (Figs. 2.4, 2.14, 5.3, 5.18, 5.62)
Synopsis
This property suffered such damage before the eruption that it was found in a state of
nearly complete ruin at the time of its excavation. The house also underwent several structural
changes. The limestone ashlar facade of the original house (3-2 c. B.C.) matches the 1st style (opus
signinum with inset tesserae) pavement of the atrium and surrounding rooms, especially DR•(4),
tablinum (6), and room (7). Room (3) was originally a shop with an entrance to the street on the S,
attached to the house by a door in the NW corner that connected to corridor (d). A door and a
stairway at (g) once allowed direct access from the street to the house and second floor rooms
above. At some point (probably during the early first century A.D.), shop (3) was blocked off
from both street and house, becoming completely isolated for an unknown reason. Maiuri adds
that after the earthquake of A.D. 62, the street entrance to (g) was closed off, and a new stair
opened up on the S side at #14, leading from the street to rooms over (a, 1-2). That range of
upper floor rooms included a balcony projecting over the street from above room (2), which in
turn accessed a small space over the stair to the upper floor, which Maiuri calls "un casotto,
49 Maiuri NSc 1929, 428.
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