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(Fig. 5.159). The kitchen was added to this building from the neighboring property (I.10.2-3)
already by the second to early first century B.C. A large upper floor room DR◊{6} at the NE
corner of the building overhung the street corner and may have been a dining room. The stair
leading to this room passed by a lararium painting on the N wall of entry (1). On the ground
level, room (3), decorated in the 3rd style and usually referred to as the tablinum, may have also
served for dining; a mixing bowl, amphora and a few other ceramic vessels were found there
(Fig. 5.157). Bowls and cups were also found in rooms (2, 4).
References
Jashemski 1993, 47; PPM II, 230-237; Fröhlich 1991, 254-255; Ling 1987, 154-158; PPP I, 109-110;
CTP IIIA, 18-19; Ling 1983; Bastet & De Vos 1979, 139; Schefold 1957, 38; Boyce 1937, 26-27, #45-
46; Elia NSc 1934, 265-270; Della Corte NSc 1933, 277-278; Della Corte NSc 1929, 455-456.
Data
A) Total area: 97.3 Nodes: 25.5 Connectors: 3.5 Static spaces: 70.5
B) Total # spaces: 8 # Nodes: 1 # Connectors: 1 # Static spaces: 6
C) Area, KI (5): 10.2 Area, DI(3): 14.7 Length, DI◊(3): 3.20 Width, DI◊(3): 4.60
Area, DR{6}: 16.5 Length, DR◊{6}: 4.41 Width, DR◊{6}: 3.75
61. I.10.2-3, Casa e popina di Coponia, casa piccola + lunch counter
(Figs. 2.8, 5.7, 5.160-5.161)
Synopsis
The cooking area in this complex is a HE of sub-type (4) at the S end of the serving
counter, next to two immured dolia in area (2) at #2, a lunch counter. DI◊(6), usually considered
the tablinum, has a 1st style decorated floor and 4th style wall painting, and seems the only part of
the house where formal meals could have been held (Figs. 5.160-5.161). Various domestic items,
including a spoon and an amphora filled partway with organic material (Elia suspected bran)
were found here. Food cooking and storage vessels (an urceus, olla, cup and wine amphora) were
found fallen from the upper floor over rooms (2, 3). A hand-mill and amphora were located in
room (7), behind the lunch counter. A painted niche shrine is inserted in the E wall of the S end
of entranceway (3). Room (12) contains a latrine at the back of the house, off a small open court
(11) that offers light and air to DI◊(6) (Fig. 5.161).
References
Jashemski 1993, 47; PPM II, 238-239; Fröhlich 1991, 255; Ling 1987, 154-158; PPP I, 110-111;
Laidlaw 1985, 77; CTP IIIA, 18-19; Ling 1983; Guida Laterza 1982, 97; Guida 1976, 185-186;
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