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66. I.10.9, Taberna di P.C.F., (work)shop (Figs. 2.8, 5.7)
Synopsis
There was a complete lack of finds, furniture and installations from this (work)shop, and
no evidence for cooking or eating.
References
Ling 1987, 154-158; Gassner 1986, 132; PPP I, 138; Ling 1983; Della Corte 1954, 251, #617; Elia NSc
1934, 320-321; Della Corte NSc 1933, 313; Della Corte NSc 1929, 468-469.
Data
A) Total area: 9.6 Nodes: 9.6 Connectors: 0 Static spaces: 0
B) Total # spaces: 1 # Nodes: 1 # Connectors: 0 # Static spaces: 0
67. I.10.10-11, Casa degli Amanti, casa media (Figs. 2.8, 5.7, 5.175-5.176)
Synopsis
Extensive tunneling disturbed much of the stratigraphy of this house. KI (16) contains a
large solid masonry ST of sub-type (1) against the S wall (Fig. 5.175). The ST has a tiled surface
and a back curb of upright tiles. Built into the W end is a cocciopesto-lined basin. A bronze jug
was found on the stove-top; two amphorae and two ceramic jugs were stored in the NW corner
of the room. A niched shrine above a lararium painting overlooked the ST on the E wall, next to
the door to the latrine in room (15). Elia interpreted the entire S wing of the peristyle on both
floors to be the servants working and residential quarters. Cooking and serving wares were
stored off the peristyle (Fig. 5.176). Two cupboards sat below the wooden staircase to the upper
floor in the N portico of peristyle (9); these contained ceramic jugs, pots, a bronze pastry mould,
and plates of alabaster and glass. A BZ was found near the NW corner of the peristyle, next to
another chest containing eight glass flasks. Off the same corner of the peristyle was DH•(8), a
large hall with an elaborately painted vaulted ceiling and 4th style painted decoration. Two
skeletons were found here. Any of the small rooms (10-12) on the E side of the peristyle
conceivably could have held small gatherings; room (10), for instance, contained iron rods that
may have supported couches or beds. Elia suggests that DH◊{20} on the upper floor was another
major reception room, but no decoration survives.
References
Jashemski 1993, 50; Allison 1992b, 223-233; Fröhlich 1991, 256-257; PPM II, 433-499; Ling 1987,
154-158; Gassner 1986, 132; PPP I, 138-147; CTP IIIA, 18-19; Ling 1983; Guida Laterza 1982, 97-98;
Guida 1976, 186-188; Schefold 1957, 47-48; Della Corte 1954, 251-252, #618; Maiuri 1942, 183;
Pernice 1938, 108; Boyce 1937, 29, #59; Elia NSc 1934, 321-339; Della Corte NSc 1933, 313-317.
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