Herculaneum V.18. Steps to upper floor, linked to V.17.

Excavated 1937-38.

V.18 and Apartment 1, upper floor plan

V.18 Herculaneum, September 2015. Entrance doorway.

V.18 Herculaneum. May 2005. Detail of facade on east side of doorway to V.18. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

V.17/18 Herculaneum. 2010 isometric drawing of house. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

Detail from book, showing position of the latrine at the rear of the stairs, against the south wall in the south-east corner of the mezzanine level.

See Monteix, Nicolas, 2010. Les lieux de métier. Boutiques et ateliers d’Herculanum. Ecole française de Rome, p. 84, fig. 30.

V.18 Herculaneum, September 2015. Staircase to upper floor, and rooms 17, 18 and 19.

At the rear of the staircase, the latrine on the mezzanine level can be seen.

Maiuri wrote that the upper rooms were divided into three rooms, by halving the one corresponding to the one above the shop-room, and adding to the front part, with the aid of the area of the room overhanging the street frontage.  Of the decoration of the room outside towards the street frontage, there remains only one painting on the west wall.  Of the decoration of the innermost room, illuminated by a square window and of two circular ones, one painting was recovered intact from the north wall, a beautiful picture of cupids recessed within a wooden frame.

V.18 Herculaneum. May 2006. Looking south to latrine in south-east corner of mezzanine level. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

V.18 Herculaneum. May 2004. Latrine on mezzanine level, at rear of staircase. Looking south. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

V.18 Herculaneum. May 2004. Detail of latrine on mezzanine level. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

V.18 Herculaneum. May 2004. Looking down on latrine. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

V.17/18 Herculaneum. September 2003. Upper south wall of room 19. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

V.17/18 Herculaneum. September 2003.

Room 19, south-west corner and doorway to rear room 18, on upper floor. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

V.17/18 Herculaneum. May 2004. 

Room 19, upper floor, west wall in south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

According to a 1941 photo, the carbonised wooden cupboard/wardrobe was on display/found in this corner, now in V.17.

See Camardo, D, and Notomista, M, eds. (2017). Ercolano: 1927-1961. L’impresa archeologico di Amedeo Maiuri e l’esperimento della citta museo. Rome, L’Erma di Bretschneider, (p.231, Scheda 25, fig.2).

V.17-18 DSCN0464_DxO May 2004. Room 19, west wall of upper floor room. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

V.17/18 Herculaneum. May 2004. Room 19, west wall, with doorway to room 17, on right. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

V.17/18 Herculaneum. September 2003.

Upper west wall of room 17, painting from room overlooking street front. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

V.17/18 Herculaneum. May 2004. Looking towards south wall of upper rear room, room 18. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

V.17/18 Herculaneum. May 2004.

Looking down on rear room of shop, looking south from area, without floor, of room 18. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

V.17/18 Herculaneum. May 2004. Room 18, looking towards east wall. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

On the left, in the north-east corner, beneath the square recess, part of a carbonised wooden lararium was found.

See Camardo, D, and Notomista, M, eds. (2017). Ercolano: 1927-1961. L’impresa archeologico di Amedeo Maiuri e l’esperimento della citta museo. Rome, L’Erma di Bretschneider, (p.232, Scheda 25, fig.4).

On the left is the north wall of rear room 18, where the painting of the Cupids was found and detached.

V.17/18 Herculaneum. Room 18, north wall. Carbonised remains of wooden frame from which the picture of the cupids was detached.

See Prisco G., 2013. Tecnica esecutiva e conservazione delle pitture murali di epoca romana. Il dibattito tra fine ‘800 e prima metà del ‘900. Bollettino ICR, N.S. 27, p. 56, fig. 6.

V.18/17 Herculaneum. 2013.

Painting of cupids playing with the attributes of Apollo, found in the centre of the north wall in an upper room.

Photo © The Trustees of the British Museum. All rights reserved. Image 01142093001.

The British Museum says this is SAP inventory number 77872.

V.18/17 Herculaneum, 1978.

Painting of cupids playing with the attributes of Apollo including a tripod, found in the centre of the north wall in an upper room.

Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.  

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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According to Esposito, this painting was found in the centre of the north wall in “Bottega V.17, ambiente (18)”.

See Esposito, D. (2014). La pitture di Ercolano. Rome, “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, (tav.74) in Studi della Soprintendenza archeologica di Pompei, no.33.

According to Pagano and Prisciandaro, painted plaster was found on 21st December 1937 in an upper room.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inventory number 149336.

21 dic 1937 Ercolano.

Piano superiore, intonaco dipinto: “abaco di intonaco incassato nella cornice di legno originaria (carbonizzata) nel quale sono degli eroti che giocano col tripode apollineo”. (NAP 149336).

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi. (p.232).

V.18/17 Herculaneum, 1968.

Painting found in the centre of the north wall of an upper room. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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According to Pesando and Guidobaldi, -

“This picture, inserted into a wooden frame, was a rare example of picturae excisae ….inclusae in ligneis formis, (Vitruvio, II.8) created by shops and then incorporated into specialized frescoed walls.”

See Pesando, F. and Guidobaldi, M.P. (2006). Pompei, Oplontis, Ercolano, Stabiae. Editori Laterza, (p.355)

See Maiuri, Amedeo, (1977). Herculaneum. 7th English ed, of Guide books to the Museums Galleries and Monuments of Italy, No.53 (p.48).

V.18 Herculaneum, May 2010. Small doorway giving access to stairs to upper floor, and V 17, centre, and V.16, on right. 

V.18 and V.17 Herculaneum. May 2010.

18 was the doorway for steps to access the upper floor. V.17 was a shop with a rear room.

V.18 and V.17 Herculaneum. July 2015. Looking south to upper floor room. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

Insula V, northern end, Herculaneum. May 2006. Looking west along Ins V. on Decumanus Maximus.

Insula V, Herculaneum. 22 Sept. 2014. Looking S-W from the Decumanus to Insula V, doorways V.19 to V.12.

Photo courtesy of Larry Turner.

Insula V, Herculaneum. 11 April 1977. Looking S-W from the Decumanus Maximus to Insula V, doorways V18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13 (L to R).

Photo courtesy of Larry Turner.

V.18 Herculaneum, on left. May 2001. Looking west along north end of insula. Photo courtesy of Current Archaeology.

Insula V, north side. 1955.

Looking west along Ins V. on Decumanus Maximus, Wilhelmina is just going into V.15, the House of the Bicentenary. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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V.18 and Apartment 1, upper floor plan