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holes for shelving are still visible (Fig. 5.129). For additional heating, an elaborate bronze
portable stove was stored underneath the stairs in room (20) (Rediscovering Pompeii 1990).
Three spacious reception and dining rooms lay off the atrium and peristyle; DH•(9), with late 3rd
style decoration, is sometimes considered to have been the tablinum as well (Fig. 5.130); its
entrance was adjacent to a small arched shrine that has been confused with a shrine found in KI
(8) of the neighboring house (I.8.18) (see below). DR (14) had a couch niche (lectus summus, l. 2.52
m.), and 4th style painting (Fig. 5.131). DR•(18), with late 3rd style decoration, looked out
towards another cult spot in the garden (17) (Fig. 5.132). There a tile inscribed with the word
"FVLGVR" marked a pit filled with pieces of the house that had at some point been struck and
damaged by lightning (Maiuri 1942b).
References
Jashemski 1993, 43; PPM I, 847-913; Fröhlich 1991, 254, #L10; Rediscovering Pompeii 1990, #42,
59; Castiglione Morelli del Franco & Vitale 1989, 208-210; Falanga 1989; PPP I, 82-88; CTP IIIA,
14-15; Laidlaw 1985, 68-74; Guida Laterza 1982, 116; Bastet & De Vos 1979, 83-84; Guida 1976,
215-217; Della Corte 1954, 276-277, #697-700; Della Corte NSc 1946, 117-123; Maiuri 1942b.
Data
A) Total area: 583.4 Nodes: 220.5 Connectors: 76.5 Static spaces: 287.6
B) Total # spaces: 24 # Nodes: 2 # Connectors: 4 # Static spaces: 17
C) Area, KI (21): 15.4 Area, DH•(9): 33.5 Length, DH•(9): 6.69 Width, DH•(9): 5.01
Area, DR (14): 21.6 Length, DR (14): 6.12 Width, DR (14): 3.53
Area, DR•(18): 19.3 Length, DR•(18): 5.95 Width, DR•(18): 3.25
48. I.8.18, Casa di Balbus, casa piccola (Figs. 2.6, 5.5, 5.133-5.134)
Synopsis
KI (8) no longer contains a cooking installation, but evidence for low walls in the SW and
SE corners suggests that a small ST or HE stood in one of the corners. Four bronze cooking pots
were found from somewhere in the house. A latrine occupied the space to the E in (9). In the
center of the S wall was a shrine with painted serpents and Lares flanking an altar. From a niche
were recovered (by pouring plaster into the cavities) three small, rustic busts perhaps
representing the imagines maiorum. Scholars have consistently and erroneously placed this shrine
in the SE corner of the atrium of (I.8.17+11), but personal inspection has confirmed that it belongs
here. 78 The photo taken at the time of excavation (Fig. 5.133) shows the shrine in pristine
78 Fröhlich was able to see that the shrine, with rustic busts of deities, normally attributed to the SE corner of
atrium (3) of the house (I.8.17+11), did not match the smaller niched shrine actually located there, but he
was unable to place its true location. The error derived from the mistaken interpretation of the provenance
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