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painting of popular style near the entrance depicting potters (painted over in its last phase)<br />

suggests that the property was once an officina vasaria.<br />

References<br />

Jashemski 1993, 42-43; PPM I, 826-833; Fröhlich 1991, 253; Castiglione Morelli del Franco & Vitale<br />

1989, 197-199; PPP I, 80-81; CTP IIIA, 14-15; Della Corte 1954, 272, #675; Maiuri 1953/54; Della<br />

Corte NSc 1946, 100-101.<br />

Data<br />

A) Total area: 240.5 Nodes: 150.2 Connectors: 0 Static spaces: 90.3<br />

B) Total # spaces: 9 # Nodes: 2 # Connectors: 0 # Static spaces: 5<br />

C) Area, KI [9]: 22.9 Area, DI◊(3): 15.1 Length, DI◊(3): 3.68 Width, DI◊(3): 4.09<br />

43. I.8.12, Stabulum/Officina, (work)shop-house (Figs. 2.6, 5.5)<br />

Synopsis<br />

A dead horse was found next to a manger on the W of court (1) near piles of bedding and<br />

manure. Fifteen wine amphorae were recovered from the NE corner, and sixteen bronze vessels<br />

were found here, perhaps from the upper floor. Numerous agricultural tools were also<br />

discovered. The building was certainly a stable and probably also a workshop, perhaps<br />

belonging to the owners of the house at (I.8.17+11). An arcuated niche shrine occupied the N<br />

wall of court (1).<br />

References<br />

Castiglione Morelli del Franco & Vitale 1989, 199-200; CTP IIIA, 14-15; Maiuri 1953/54, 101ff;<br />

Della Corte NSc 1946, 101-102.<br />

Data<br />

A) Total area: 108.6 Nodes: 66.7 Connectors: 3.1 Static spaces: 38.8<br />

B) Total # spaces: 6 # Nodes: 1 # Connectors: 1 # Static spaces: 4<br />

44. I.8.13, Officina di A. Granius Romanus, (work)shop-house<br />

(Figs. 2.6, 5.5, 5.121-5.122)<br />

Synopsis<br />

Numerous inscriptions recording financial transactions scrawled on the walls and twelve<br />

wine amphorae against the S wall of court (1) led Della Corte to interpret this complex as a center<br />

for the production and sale of wine. However, due to piles of building material found near the<br />

amphorae, Castiglione Morelli del Franco & Vitale argue that the building was under renovation<br />

at the time of the eruption. A latrine is located immediately to the right of the entrance inside the<br />

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