Herculaneum IV.2. Casa dell’Atrio a mosaico or House of Mosaic atrium, linked to IV.1.
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Starting inside from east side of entrance corridor, looking west towards doorway
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016.
Entrance corridor, looking west from atrium end. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016.
Looking west along north wall of entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2/1 Herculaneum. Entrance corridor/fauces, detail of painted decoration on upper north wall.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016.
Looking east towards impluvium in atrium floor. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, May 2004.
Looking north across impluvium and flooring
in atrium. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
IV.2/1,
Herculaneum, May 2004. Looking north along west end of impluvium in atrium. Photo
courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016. Compluvium in modern atrium roof. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016. Looking east across atrium towards tablinum. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, May 2004. T
ablinum, looking towards north-east corner. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016. Looking east across tablinum. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Maiuri wrote – “The form of the tablinum is curious, closed at the end, with partitions of pilasters and windows above the pilasters; the result is three aisles, a wider and higher one in the centre flanked by two minor lower ones on either side, which constitute almost the plan of a basilica in embryo.”
See Maiuri, Amedeo, (1977). Herculaneum. 7th English ed, of Guide books to the Museums Galleries and Monuments of Italy, No.53 (p.27).
According to Wallace-Hadrill and Guidobaldi, the tablinum was transformed into an oecus Aegyptius.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016. Tablinum, looking south-east. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, May 2004. Tablinum, looking south-east.
Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016. East wall of tablinum. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2017.
Detail of painted decoration from upper centre of east wall of tablinum. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016. Looking east in tablinum. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016.
Looking north-west across atrium, from near doorway from tablinum on south side. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016. Atrium, looking south-west towards entrance doorway, on right.
The doorway to the kitchen is in the centre, next to a doorway and window into the windowed portico. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016.
Looking west through doorway into kitchen from south-west corner of atrium. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016.
Looking west in kitchen towards doorway into entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016.
A beautiful bucket made in embossed lead plate and decorated in relief, used as a reservoir of water, part of the kitchen furnishings.
Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016. Detail of the lead bucket. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016. Detail of the lead bucket. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016.
Looking across atrium towards the tablinum, from the south-west corner near kitchen. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016.
Looking north-east across atrium, from step down into the windowed portico. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016. Looking south-west from atrium, towards step to windowed portico.
The step to the kitchen is centre left. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016. Looking south-west in windowed portico. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016.
Looking south-east across garden area, from west end of windowed portico. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2, Herculaneum. Photo by Theodor Benzinger.
Looking east along windowed north portico of House of the Mosaic Atrium.
Used with the permission of the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford.
File name INSTARCHbx21im002 Resource ID 37884.
See photo on University of Oxford HEIR database
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016. Looking south across garden from windowed portico. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, photo taken between October 2014 and November 2019.
Looking towards
windowed portico at north end of garden. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, September 2016. Looking towards windowed portico at north end of garden. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2, Herculaneum, October 2014. Looking east across north side. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2, Herculaneum, October 2014. Looking east across windowed north portico. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.1/2 Herculaneum, October 2014. North-west corner of peristyle, looking east. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.2/1, Herculaneum, 7th August 1976. Looking north-east
across peristyle garden.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George
Fay’s slides collection.
IV.1/2 Herculaneum, 4th December 1971. Looking
north towards windowed portico in garden area.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George
Fay’s slides collection.
IV.1/2 Herculaneum, June 2005. Excavation trench in
north-west corner of garden area. Photo
courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
IV.1/2 Herculaneum, October 2022. Looking
north-east across peristyle. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.1/2 Herculaneum, September 2019. Looking
north-east across peristyle. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.1/2 Herculaneum, October 2014. Looking north-east across peristyle. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
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