House of the Vetti Family. Garden in back of town house.
House of the Vetti Family. Garden in back of town house.
Is that statue on the right peeing into the trough?
I’ve got a walk-through VR file of some kind, of the House of the Vettii, I think this is the same place. It’s an atypical layout, the final owners were freed slaves who’d married, and obviously had accumulated some cash over the years. Often those coffeetable books of Roman art have a fresco or two from this place. The cook (who was probably a slave, most household staff were slaves) had his bedroom right off the kitchen, and the walls of his room have erotic frescoes. :’) The front of the house was two-storey, the stairs survived, the second storey didn’t. Two atriums; the tablinum and triclinium opened off this peristyle (odd).
I’ll be darned, here’s something similar:
http://www.indiana.edu/~leach/c409/vplan.html
Here’s a nice shot of the main atrium; the, uh, impluvium? conpluvium?, the pool has been restored, and when excavated, the original roof tiles with deflectors for the rainwater were found in the ash filling the pool. They were reinstalled when the roof was reconstructed.
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/item.php?item=36622
Oh, okay, looked it up, im- is the pool, con- is the opening in the roof.
some example wall paintings:
https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/prec/www/course/mythology/0900/1501.jpg
https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/prec/www/course/mythology/0900/herakles.htm
Okay, last one, here’s another sort of walk-through of the house:
http://www.pompeii.co.uk/CDROM/VETTII/FRAMES/F0.HTM
