Herculaneum IV.21. Casa dei Cervi or House of the Stags or Deer.
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Triclinium 5
IV.21, Herculaneum, September 2019.
Room 24, doorway on west side of atrium into triclinium 5, and through to the rooms 6 and 7, oecus.
Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.21, Herculaneum, September 2015.
Room 24, looking west across atrium towards doorway to triclinium 5, and through to the rooms 6 and 7, oecus.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Detail of threshold of doorway to room 5. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum, June 2017.
Looking towards west wall of triclinium 5. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.21 Herculaneum, June 2011. Triclinium 5, looking north along west wall. Photo courtesy of Sera Baker.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Triclinium 5, west wall at south end. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum, September 2019.
Room 5, detail of painted decoration towards north end of west wall in triclinium.
Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Room 5, west wall of triclinium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum, October 2020.
Room 5, detail of painted decoration towards
north end of west wall in triclinium. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.21, Herculaneum.
1972.
Triclinium 5, painting of Mask and
dolphin, originally found and detached from west wall plinth/dado/socle
(zoccolo), on left side.
Detached from the wall 20th – 21st June
1749. 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.
J72f0563
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.
Inventory number 9850.
See Tran Tam Tinh, (1988). La Casa dei Cervi a Herculanum. (p.43-44)
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1765. Triclinium 5, painting of Mask and dolphin.
See
Antichità di Ercolano: Tomo Quarto: Le Pitture 4, 1765, p. 179.
IV.21, Herculaneum.
2018.
Triclinium 5, Bearded Mask, originally
found and detached from west wall socle (zoccolo), on right side.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.
Inventory number 9838.
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1972. Triclinium 5, Bearded Mask, originally found and detached from
west wall socle (zoccolo), on right side.
Detached
from the wall 20th – 21st June 1749. 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.
J72f0564
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.
Inventory number 9838.
See Tran Tam Tinh, (1988). La Casa dei Cervi a Herculanum. (p.43-44)
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1972.
Triclinium
5, detail from top right-hand corner of
painting. 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.
J72f0569
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.
Inventory number 9838.
IV.21, Herculaneum.
1765. Triclinium 5, bearded mask.
See Antichità di Ercolano: Tomo Quarto: Le
Pitture 4, 1765, p. 179, tav. XXXVIII.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Looking towards north-west corner of triclinium 5. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. October 2020.
Triclinium 5, detail from upper west wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Triclinium 5, detail from upper west wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. October 2020. Triclinium 5, detail from upper west wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Triclinium 5, detail from upper north-west corner. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21 Herculaneum, May 2004.
Triclinium 5, with opus sectile floor, and 4th style wall decoration on black. Looking towards north-west corner of room.
Maiuri said, the spacious triclinium and drawing room, with its walls austerely painted from dado to cornice with sober architectural and ornamental motifs on a black ground broken by wide red bands, has on the other hand a dazzling floor of marble intarsia work (opus sectile), without any real geometrical design, being composed of so many separate tiles of varying shapes in different marbles.
On the same side, there are a small room leading to the kitchen, the storeroom and the latrine, and a beautiful internal cubiculum with red walls and a floor in marble sectile; in the rear there is an elegant reception room (oecus) with the walls and the vault finely painted with a red background and a polychrome marble floor.
See Maiuri, Amedeo, (1977). Herculaneum. 7th English ed, of Guidebooks to the Museums Galleries and Monuments of Italy, No.53, (p.60-63).
IV.21 Herculaneum, August 2021. Triclinium 5,
looking north. Photo courtesy of Robert Hanson.
IV.21 Herculaneum, September 2019. Triclinium 5, looking north. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.21 Herculaneum.
March 2019. Triclinium 5, north wall.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IV.21 Herculaneum, May 2017.
Triclinium 5, with opus sectile floor, and 4th style wall decoration on black. Looking towards north wall.
IV.21, Herculaneum, June 2017. Triclinium 5, looking towards north wall. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.21 Herculaneum, April 2018. Triclinium 5, looking towards north wall. Photo courtesy of Ian Lycett-King.
Use is subject to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License v.4 International.
IV.21, Herculaneum. September 2019.
Room 5, painted decoration from west end of north wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.21, Herculaneum. September 2019.
Room 5, detail of painted decoration from west end of north wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.21, Herculaneum. September 2019.
Room 5, detail of painted decoration from west end of north wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.21
Herculaneum. March 2019. Room 5, upper centre of north wall.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IV.21, Herculaneum. September 2019.
Room 5, painted decoration from east end of north wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Room 5, east end of north wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. September 2019.
Room 5, detail of painted decoration from east end of north wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.21, Herculaneum. September 2019.
Room 5, detail of painted decoration from east end of north wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.21, Herculaneum, June 2011. Triclinium 5, looking towards north wall. Photo courtesy of Sera Baker.
IV.21 Herculaneum.
Triclinium 5, painting of Mask crowned
with flowers on blue background, found at the west end (left side) of the north
wall.
Detached from the wall 20th – 21st June
1749.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.
Inventory number 9806.
IV.21 Herculaneum. Triclinium 5,
painting of Mask on blue background, found at the west end (left side) of the
north wall.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9806.
See Antichità di Ercolano: Tomo Quarto: Le
Pitture 4, 1765, p. 175.
See Tran Tam Tinh, (1988). La Casa dei Cervi a Herculanum. (p.43-44)
IV.21, Herculaneum.
1972. Triclinium 5, painting of Mask with thyrsus/lance nearby.
Originally found and detached from
north wall plinth/dado/socle (zoccolo), on east end (right side).
Detached and registered by Alcubierre, 20th June 1749, the first of 5 masks taken on 20th-21st June 1749.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.
Inventory number 9805.
IV.21, Herculaneum.
1972.
Triclinium 5, painting of Mask with
thyrsus, originally found and detached from north wall plinth/dado/socle
(zoccolo), on east end (right side).
Detached and registered by Alcubierre,
20th June 1749, the first of 5 masks taken on 20th-21st June 1749. 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.
J72f0566
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.
Inventory number 9805.
IV.21, Herculaneum.
1972.
Triclinium 5, painting of Mask with
thyrsus, originally found and detached from north wall plinth/dado/socle
(zoccolo), on east end (right side).
See Antichità di Ercolano: Tomo Quarto: Le
Pitture 4, 1765, p. 175.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.
Inventory number 9805.
See Tran Tam Tinh, (1988). La Casa dei Cervi a Herculanum. (p.43-44)
IV.21, Herculaneum.
1972.
Triclinium 5, detail from painting on
north wall at east end. 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.
J72f0568
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.
Inventory number 9805.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Triclinium 5, looking towards east wall and north-east corner. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21 Herculaneum, May 2004.
Triclinium 5, with opus sectile floor, and 4th style wall decoration on black. Looking towards north-east corner of room.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Triclinium 5, north end of east wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. October 2020.
Triclinium 5, painted decoration at north end of east wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018.
Triclinium 5, painted decoration at north end of east wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. September 2019.
Triclinium 5, detail of painted decoration at north end of east wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.21 Herculaneum. Wall painting detached from socle (zoccolo) of east wall at left end (north side).
Now in Naples
Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9804.
IV.21 Herculaneum. Wall painting detached from socle (zoccolo) of east wall at left end (north side).
Now in Naples
Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9804.
According to Pagano and Prisciandaro, this is described as “nearby has a vase or a type of fountain from which water escapes’.
See Pagano, M.
and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti
negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi.
(p.206)
See Antichità
di Ercolano: Tomo Quarto: Le Pitture 4, 1765, p. 171.
IV.21, Herculaneum, April 2018. Triclinium 5, looking towards north-east corner and east wall.
Photo courtesy of Ian Lycett-King. Use is subject to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License v.4 International.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Triclinium 5, central panel from east wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum, June 2017.
Looking towards east wall of triclinium 5, with doorway to atrium, on right. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
On the socle (plinth/dado, zoccolo) of the east wall at the south end, to the left of the doorway to the atrium, is a blue painted panel.
On this panel, is a painting similar to the other blue panel paintings of masks, but very badly faded, and left in situ.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Triclinium 5, looking towards east wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. October 2020. Triclinium 5, zoccolo/dado at south end of east wall.
Blue painted panel of masks, very badly faded, and left in situ. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.21, Herculaneum. October 2020. Triclinium 5, zoccolo/dado at south end of east wall.
Detail of blue painted panel of masks, very badly faded, and left in situ. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018.
Triclinium 5, detail of blue painted panel of masks, very badly faded, and left in situ. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. October 2020.
Triclinium 5, detail from panel on east wall at south end above blue painted panel.
Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Triclinium 5, detail from panel on east wall at south end above blue painted panel. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
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