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niched shrine was set in the W wall of the garden, ostensibly in plain view of DR•(11), but
actually blocked by a portico column. Judging by the piles of construction material found, this
property seems to have been undergoing renovation at the time of the eruption. The house
probably also had a commercial function; large numbers of amphorae were found stacked in neat
rows along the W wall of atrium (2) (PPM II, 151 #1). This house probably supplied, managed, or
owned the diner I.9.11 to which it is connected.
References
Jashemski 1993, 45; Berry 1993, 23-24, 37; PPM II, 150-171; PPP I, 103-105; CTP IIIA, 16-17; De Vos
1976, Pl. 35; Orr 1973, 153, #4; Della Corte NSc 1958, 77-184 (passim).
Data
A) Total area: 298.1 Nodes: 188.7 Connectors: 17.5 Static spaces: 91.9
B) Total # spaces: 14 # Nodes: 2 # Connectors: 2 # Static spaces: 8
C) Area, KI (9): 2.8 Area, DR•(11): 18.4 Length, DR•(11): 4.84 Width, DR•(11): 3.80
58. I.9.13-14, Casa di Cerere, casa media (Figs. 2.7, 5.6, 5.152-5.156)
Synopsis
The large number of furniture and finds recovered from this house aids in its
reconstruction. Cooking was done in both of the nodes of this house, not in any particular room
of the house with fixed installations. In atrium (b), a low masonry cooking platform was used as
a ST of sub-type (1). A metal cooking grate, numerous cooking pots and pans, amphorae, storage
vessels, serving bowls and plates were found along the W wall near the SW corner (Fig. 5.152). In
the SW corner of court (o) was a metal BZ, upon which the toes of three amphorae were arranged
so as to form a cooking support for a cooking vessel (Fig. 5.153). Vessels and utensils for serving
and eating were stored largely on shelves and in cupboards in the small rooms (h) and (l). One
dining area, DR (m), contained serving and dining wares. This same dining room had late 3rd
style wall decoration, a T+U pavement pattern marking the placement of the couches, and three
feet of one of the couches (Fig. 5.156). A masonry platform in the same space may have been
used for heating or cooking. 80 DR (j), perhaps doubling as a tablinum and also with late 3rd style
painting, was provided with couch niches (lectus summus, l. 2.68, lectus medius w. 1.29 m.) and an
emblema in the pavement offset for accommodating the couches (Fig. 5.155). The room contained
tools, four marble statues (cupids riding dolphins, for use as fountain spouts) and damaged
decoration, suggesting that it was under renovation. DR (d) had a couch niche (lectus medius, w.
80 PPM II, 229, #86: "la base quadrata in muratura rivestita di cocciopesto...forse faceva da ripiano per il
fornello."
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