Herculaneum IV.21. Casa dei Cervi or House of the Stags or Deer.
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Oecus 16, at west end of southern cryptoporticus 30
IV.21, Herculaneum, June 2017, Cryptoporticus 30, flooring near doorway to Oecus 16. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Cryptoporticus 30, flooring outside of doorway to Oecus 16. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Cryptoporticus 30, detail of flooring outside of doorway to Oecus 16. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Oecus 16, looking north from doorway. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018.
Oecus 16, looking towards west wall with doorway onto Cryptoporticus 31. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21 Herculaneum. 2016. Oecus 16, looking north towards window onto area 33, and towards garden 32.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Oecus 16, looking towards north-east corner. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Oecus 16, looking towards east wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21 Herculaneum. Oecus 16 on west side of terrace, 4 paintings of fowl, fruit and mushrooms.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8647.
IV.21 Herculaneum. 1968. Detail of paintings from oecus 16. 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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Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8647.
Detail of paintings from oecus 16 (on west side of terrace) showing fowl, fruit and mushrooms. 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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Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8647.
IV.21 Herculaneum. Oecus 16 on west side of terrace, 4 paintings of fowl, fruit and mushrooms.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8647.
Found in the excavations of Portici, this picture and the next one.
See Antichità
di Ercolano: Tomo Secondo: Le Pitture 2, 1760, p. 297, Tav. LVI.
IV.21 Herculaneum. Oecus 16 on west side of terrace, 4 paintings of fowl, seafood, rabbit and various fruits.
The first three are now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8644.
According to AdE, the fourth, with the basket and the fruit, was a separate catalogue number.
Found in the excavations of Portici, this picture and the previous one.
See Antichità di Ercolano: Tomo Secondo: Le Pitture 2, 1760, p. 301, Tav. LVII.
IV.21 Herculaneum, 3 paintings from oecus 16 (on west side of terrace) all detached by Bourbon excavators.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8644.
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1968. Oecus 16, details. 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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Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8644.
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1968. Oecus 16, detail of rabbit with a bunch of grapes. 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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Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8644.
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1957. Oecus 16.
Detail of painting with a red apple in a niche, and bird hanging by the beak, in the front is a rabbit eating a bunch of grapes.
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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Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8644.
IV.21, Herculaneum. Still life, from Oecus 16.
Now in Naples
Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8615.
See Tran Tam Tinh, 1988. La Casa dei Cervi a Herculanum. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider. (p,73, fig.136, where it is described as from Oecus 29, see his plan).
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1957. Still life from Oecus 16, the blue 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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Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8615.
IV.21 Herculaneum. Still life from Oecus 16, the blue room.
See Le Antichità di Ercolano esposte Tomo 3, Le
Pitture Antiche di Ercolano 3, 1762, Tav 38, 189.
Found in the Scavi di Portici. No date for the finding.
IV.21 Herculaneum. Oecus 16. Right side of the east wall. Throne with the attributes of Juno/Hera.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9871.
According to Allroggen-Bedel, this shows on a blue-green ground a throne painted in light-dark technique with attributes of Juno.
Two counterparts are in situ in room 16: above the right-side panel of the west wall a throne with Minerva Attributes, on the left of the east wall another, barely recognizable throne.
This fragment in the Museo Nazionale was cut from the right side of the east wall;
On the opposite west wall, the wall is broken by a door.
See
Allroggen-Bedel A., 1975. Der Hausherr der Casa dei Cervi in Herculaneum.
Cronache Ercolanese 5, pp.
99-103.
IV.21 Herculaneum. Oecus 16. Right side of the east wall. Throne with the attributes of Juno/Hera.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9871. Photo courtesy of Carlo Raso.
Oecus 17 at east end of southern cryptoporticus 30.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018.
Oecus 17, threshold of doorway, and flooring on Cryptoporticus 30, looking north. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Oecus 17, looking towards west wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Oecus 17, looking towards north-west corner. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Oecus 17, detail from west end of north wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Oecus 17, looking north. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018.
Oecus 17, looking towards north-east corner, and doorway to Cryptoporticus 29. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Oecus 17, detail of north-east corner, with window into Area 34. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21 Herculaneum. Oecus 17. Fresco with two horses to the right and left of a flower.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8669.
See Allroggen-Bedel A., 1975. Der Hausherr der
Casa dei Cervi in Herculaneum. Cronache Ercolanese
5, pp. 101-102.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Cryptoporticus 30, detail of flooring near doorway to Oecus 17. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Cryptoporticus 30
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018.
Cryptoporticus 29, south-east corner where it joins Cryptoporticus 30. In the east wall, on the left, is the doorway to Room 21.
In the south wall, centre and right, are two doorways to the garden terrace overlooking the sea. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018.
Cryptoporticus 30, east side, looking towards south wall with doorways to garden terrace. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018.
Cryptoporticus 30, east side, looking towards south wall with doorways to garden terrace. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Cryptoporticus 30, south wall, still life painting. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. March 2008. Southern ambulatory of cryptoporticus 30, south wall. Photo courtesy of Sera Baker.
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1971. Still-life painting from the southern ambulatory of cryptoporticus 30, south wall. 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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See Tran Tam Tinh, 1988. La Casa dei Cervi a Herculanum. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider. (fig.92).
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1968.
Still-life painting from the southern ambulatory of cryptoporticus 30, south wall. 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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See Tran Tam Tinh, 1988. La Casa dei Cervi a Herculanum. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider. (fig.92).
IV.21, Herculaneum. Southern ambulatory of cryptoporticus (30) small paintings with glass and fruit.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8645.
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1966. Southern ambulatory of cryptoporticus 30. 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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Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8645.
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1957.
Southern ambulatory of cryptoporticus (30) small still life with glass and fruit. 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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Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number: 8645.
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1957. Southern ambulatory of cryptoporticus 30. 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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Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8645
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1957. Southern ambulatory of cryptoporticus 30. 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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Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8645.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018.
Cryptoporticus 30, south wall on west side of Room 18, with remaining painted decoration. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
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