Herculaneum IV.21. Casa dei Cervi or House of the Stags or Deer.
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Garden area 32 with statuettes
IV.21, Herculaneum. August 2021.
Garden area 32, looking north to central doorway into
Cryptoporticus 28. Photo courtesy of Robert Hanson.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018.
Garden 32, looking north towards central doorway into Cryptoporticus 28. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum, June 2017. Garden 32, looking north towards the great portal. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.21, Herculaneum, March 2008. Garden 32, looking north towards the great portal. Photo courtesy of Sera Baker.
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1957.
Looking north from the large triclinium 15, across the garden area 32 towards the large portal and the surrounding cryptoporticus.
Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
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IV.21, Herculaneum. 4th December 1971. Looking north
across garden area 32, from large triclinium 15.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1964.
Looking north across garden area towards the great portal. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
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Maiuri wrote that the garden, closed between the walls of the quadriporticus and adorned with marble tables and sculptures, is still adorned at the triclinium end by a great portal with a pediment once entirely reveted with glass paste mosaic, with a head of Oceanus in the centre of a frieze of Cupids on seahorses.
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. May 2018. Garden area 32, detail of the Great Portal. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Garden area 32, west end. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. September 2019.
Garden area 32, detail from west end. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Garden area 32, detail from upper west end and centre. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1964.
Detail from east end of the glass-paste mosaic portal, with the head of Oceanus, and frieze of cupids on seahorses. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
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IV.21, Herculaneum, September 2019.
Detail of the head
of Oceanus from the upper centre of the great portal of Garden 32. Photo
courtesy of
Klaus Heese.
IV.21, Herculaneum, April 2018. Detail of the head of Oceanus from the upper centre of the great portal of Garden 32.
Photo courtesy of Ian Lycett-King. Use is subject to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License v.4 International.
IV.21, Herculaneum, September 2019.
Garden 32, east side of great portal showing remaining frieze with cupids on sea-horses. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.21, Herculaneum, April 2018. Garden 32, east side of great portal showing remaining frieze with cupids on sea-horses.
Photo courtesy of Ian Lycett-King. Use is subject to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License v.4 International.
IV.21, Herculaneum, April 2018. Garden 32, detail of a cupid from the frieze on the great portal.
Photo courtesy of Ian Lycett-King. Use is subject to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License v.4 International.
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1961.
Looking south across garden area, through the large triclinium 15, towards the terrace with view over the sea. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
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IV.21, Herculaneum. 1968. Capital from east side of garden area. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
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According to Maiuri, the capital with a baroque flavour, with marble intarsia on ardesian stone, either belonged to a shrine now destroyed, or was carried here by the violent rush of water. (p.63)
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. 1932. P.C. H 38. Photo by P. C. Looking south-west across the garden area.
Photo by P. C. Used with the permission of the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. File name instarchbx92im004 Resource ID 41153.
See photo on University of Oxford HEIR database
IV.21, Herculaneum, June 2017. Garden 32, looking south across garden towards area 34, from window in Cryptoporticus 28, at east end.
The bronze bath, pictured below, was found in the area behind the jutting-out wall, left of centre. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Area 34, looking south from south side of garden area.
On the right is the exterior wall of Oecus 15, on its east side. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Area 34, looking south-east across area towards wall with window to room 17.
On the left is the area of the exterior stairs that led to the floor above room 17.
The stairs would have been reached from Cryptoporticus 29.
In the area beneath where the stairs would have been, the bronze bath was found. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018.
Area that would have been beneath the exterior stairs, leading from Cryptoporticus 29, at its rear still with yellow decoration.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. 7th August 1976.
Bronze bath, which was found on 25th September 1930 in the south-east area of the garden, under the exterior steps that led to above room 17.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.
IV.21, Herculaneum, 1968.
Bronze bath, on display in garden area. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
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IV.21, Herculaneum, September 2016. Bronze bathtub. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
According to Tram Tan Tinh, the bath was found on 25th September 1930 in the south-east area of the garden, under the exterior steps that led to above room 17.
Length of bath:1.59m, width 0.60, height 0.53. Inv. no.537.
See Tran Tam Tinh, (1988). La Casa dei Cervi a Herculanum, (p.107).
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2004. Bronze bathtub.
According to Deiss found in this house was an unusual object, a bronze bathtub – unusual because most Romans favoured the public baths.
Also found were the normal objects: the uncut bread, the lamps, the glassware, the tiny statuettes, the kitchen weights, the bowls, the bells for calling servants, the perfume flasks, a necklace and a pair of dice.
See Deiss, J.J. (1968). Herculaneum, a city returns to the sun. London, The History Book Club, (p.43).
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018.
Garden 32, looking east towards wall and windows of Cryptoporticus 29. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018.
Garden 32, looking towards north-east corner and windows of Cryptoporticus 28, and 29 on right. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018.
Garden 32, looking north across garden area towards east side of central doorway and exterior wall of Cryptoporticus 28.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. September 2019.
Garden 32, looking north across garden area towards central doorway and exterior wall of Cryptoporticus 28. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Garden 32, looking towards north wall on west side of Great Portal. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018.
Garden 32, north wall in north-west corner, with marble fluted puteal/cistern-mouth. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Garden 32, fluted puteal above cistern-mouth near north wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
According to Jashemski – “A gutter at the edge of the garden carried off the roof water to the cistern.
The puteal over the mouth of the cistern near the west end of the north gutter was badly worn from the friction of the rope.”
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.264).
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018.
Garden 32, looking west towards north-west corner and windows from Cryptoporticus. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018.
Garden 32, looking towards north-west corner, and windows of Cryptoporticus 31, on left and centre, Cryptoporticus 28, centre right and right.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018.
Garden 32, looking south-west towards Area 33. The wall of Cryptoporticus 31 is on the right. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum, August 2021. Garden 32, one of two
statues of deer being attacked by hounds. Photo courtesy of Robert Hanson.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Garden 32, one of two statues of deer being attacked by hounds. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21 Herculaneum, May 2009.
Statue of deer being attacked by hounds.
According to Maiuri these two groups of deer were found in a part of the garden which had not been traversed by the underground tunnels.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1978.
Statue of deer being attacked by hounds, on display in a room of the house. 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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IV.21, Herculaneum. 1968. Statue of deer being attacked by hounds, on display in a room of the house. 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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IV.21, Herculaneum. 1964. Statue of deer being attacked by hounds. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
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IV.21, Herculaneum. June 1962. Statue of deer being attacked by hounds.
Photo by Brian Philp: Pictorial Colour Slides, forwarded by Peter Woods
(H42.16 Herculaneum Stag assaulted by hounds).
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Second statue of a deer being attacked by hounds. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21 Herculaneum, May 2009. Second statue of a deer being attacked by hounds. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.
IV.21, Herculaneum, August 2021. Statue of
drunken Hercules. Photo courtesy of Robert Hanson.
IV.21, Herculaneum, October 2023. Statue of drunken Hercules. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Statue of drunken Hercules. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21 Herculaneum, May 2009. Drunken Hercules. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1968. Drunken Hercules, on display in a room in the house. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
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IV.21, Herculaneum. 1968. Garden area. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
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According to Jashemski –
“The four original terracotta pots besides the pillars of the pergola are of a more decorative nature than I have found elsewhere and apparently held plants displayed in the pergola”.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.265).
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1968. Garden area. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
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IV.21 Herculaneum, May 2009. Looking north towards table in garden area. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1968. Looking north-east across table in garden area. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
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IV.21, Herculaneum. 1968. Detail of leg of table in garden area. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
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IV.21, Herculaneum, August 2021. Statue of Satyr with
wineskin. Photo
courtesy of Robert Hanson.
IV.21, Herculaneum, October 2023. Statue of Satyr with wineskin. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.21, Herculaneum. May 2018. Statue of Satyr with wineskin. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21 Herculaneum, May 2009. Satyr with wineskin. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.21, Herculaneum. 1968. Satyr with wineskin. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
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IV.21, Herculaneum. 1964. Satyr with wineskin. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
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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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IV.21, Herculaneum. 1964. Satyr with wineskin. 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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IV.21, Herculaneum. June 1962. Statue of Satyr with a Wineskin.
Photo by Brian Philp: Pictorial Colour Slides, forwarded by Peter Woods
(H42.16B Herculaneum Satyr with a Wineskin in Deer House).
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