IX.7.18 Pompeii. Shop and rear room, communicating with IX.7.19.

Excavated 1880.

IX.7.18 Pompeii. October 2024. Looking east towards entrance doorway on Vicolo di Tesmo. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.7.18 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking east towards entrance doorway on Vicolo di Tesmo. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.7.18 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance doorway, looking east.

IX.7.18 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance, looking east across the shop towards the area of a rear room.

According to Mau, the rear room (room e in IX.7.19) was a cubiculum.

He also stated that he thought originally in ancient times the shop, at the front of the photo, would have been closed from the street. 

The shop is also described as room “d” in IX.7.19.

The doorsteps of both doorways, IX.7.18 and IX.7.19 were missing when excavated.

It was not known what items were sold in the shop whose walls were covered with white stucco.

Above the entrance, Mau could see a red band which was the remains of a decoration from the 1st style.

See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), p.78-9

IX.7.18 Pompeii. October 2024.

Doorway in north wall at east end of rear room, into atrium of IX.7.19. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.7.18 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east across shop towards rear room.

According to Eschebach, on the left would have been the stairs to the upper floor.

A doorway in the rear room would have led into the atrium of IX.7.19.

See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.434)