VII.12.16 Pompeii. Hospitium, steps to upper floor and linked to bar at VII.12.15.

Excavated 1845, 1862. (Vico del Lupanare 23).

VII.12.16 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking south to entrance doorway.

According to Della Corte, found to the right of the doorway were the words –

Scribit Paris, idem rogat    [CIL IV 821]

He thought the entrance doorway led to steps to a hospitium on the upper floor, and that the host was named Paris.

See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.202)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), CIL IV 821 read -

A(ulum) Suettium Certum aed(ilem) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis)

scrib(s)it Paris idem rogat

aetatis d(ignum) [r(ei) p(ublicae)] Iarin[    [CIL IV 821]

VII.12.16 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west into entrance doorway.

VII.12.16 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north to corridor to VII.12.15, and steps near east wall.

VII.12.16 Pompeii. May 2003.

Looking north to corridor to VII.12.15, and steps to upper floor, near east wall. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

VII.12.16 Pompeii. December 2004. Steps to upper floor, with corridor at the rear.

VII.12.16 Pompeii. September 2005. Steps to upper floor.

VII.12.16 Pompeii. September 2005. Steps to upper floor.