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Gazetteer, part II: macroanalysis
38. I.8.1-3, Casa e popina di Stephanus,
casa media + lunch counter (Figs. 2.6, 5.5, 5.108-5.109)
Synopsis
This complex had a lunch counter in (12) with an L-shaped counter on the street; a HE of
sub-type (4) located at the end of that counter was found in a ruined state, next to some bronze
and glass serving vessels (Fig. 5.108). A lararium niche was cut in the W wall behind the counter.
The identification of this shop as the "Taberna del fruttivendolo Felix" is based solely on an
electoral inscription flanking the entrance, and must be considered spurious, despite Jashemski's
effort to find fruit there. In the main house, storage vessels were stacked under the stairs in the
NE corner of atrium (2), which may have supplied the lunch counter. It is possible that the HE in
the shop in (12) served the house as well, as seems to be the case in I.9.4-6. DR•(8) faced away
from the business end of the house towards the large peristyle garden (10) (Fig. 5.109). There was
once perhaps another reception room off the SE corner of the peristyle, but the entire area has
collapsed into the subterranean rooms of the workshop at (I.8.19). Along the W (street) side of
the insular wall, is a large ara compitalis.
References
Jashemski 1993, 42; PPM I, 790-796; Castiglione Morelli del Franco & Vitale 1989, 185-193;
Gassner 1986, 131; PPP I, 77; CTP IIIA, 14-15; Jashemski 1979, 265; Schefold 1957, 37; Della Corte
1954, 269-270, #662-671; Spinazzola I, 250-251; Della Corte NSc 1946, 92-93; Boyce 1937, 26, #44;
Maiuri NSc 1927, 6; Della Corte 1927, 38-40; Della Corte NSc 1912, 184, 216, 232, 403-404.
Data
A) Total area: 614.0 Nodes: 363.2 Connectors: 47.9 Static spaces: 208.6
B) Total # spaces: 21 # Nodes: 4 # Connectors: 4 # Static spaces: 9
C) Area, HE in (12): 2.5 Area, DR•(8): 23.1 Length, DR•(8): 5.28 Width, DR•(8): 4.37
39. I.8.4-6 Casa della Statuetta Indiana, casa media (Figs. 2.6, 5.5, 5.110-5.113)
Synopsis
A double-arched ST of sub-type (2) with traces of burning on its tiled surface rests along
the corridor (14) which ends in a latrine (Fig 5.110). The ST exploits the light and ventilation of
the peristyle, but is very visible to anyone crossing the peristyle, or dining in DR•(7) or DR (13).
Couch niches securely identify the dining areas DR (3) (lectus medius, w. 1.11 m.) and DR (13)
(lectus summus, l. 2.39 m.). The latter has 4th style decoration (Figs. 5.111-5.113). Numerous
domestic vessels and utensils (including 39 glass vases and 21 bronze vessels) were recovered
from a wooden cabinet that resided in one of the three service rooms (9-11) on the W side of the
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