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Case a Giardino

In the descriptions Via delle Volte Dipinte is presumed to run from south to north, Cardo degli Aurighi from west to east.

Plan of the Case a Giardino.


G0771 - SHIP

- Place of discovery not specified. In the storage rooms.
- Langner 2001, nr. 2202.

Interpretation: ship with main sail, bowsprit sail, flag in top. Two small ships in the background.

- ICCD E040871
- ICCD E040871 (detail)
- Langner


G0772 - TWO SHIPS

- Place of discovery not specified. In the storage rooms.
- Langner 2001, nrs. 2009-2010.

Interpretation: two ships, the left one with a concave bow, the right one with some sort of net on the stern and preceded by four dolphins.

- ICCD E040831
- ICCD E040831 (detail of left ship)
- ICCD E040831 (detail of right ship)
- Langner


G0176 - HEAD OF AN ATHLETE

Unit 4, room 6, south wall, to the east of doorway.

Interpretation: a professional athlete with his hair in a knot. In 2014 prepared for transport to storage rooms.

- Eric Taylor
- Animation, Eric Taylor


G0177 - SHIP

Unit 4, room 4b, north part of east wall.

Interpretation: a ship with a triangular main sail. In 2014 prepared for transport to storage rooms.

- Jan Theo Bakker
- Eric Taylor
- Animation, Eric Taylor


G0773 - A NUMBER

Unit 4, room 6: XXI.

- Harp 2014


G0774 - TALLY MARKS

Unit 4, room 6, east wall: XXI.

- Harp 2014


G0775 - A NUMBER?

Unit 4, room 7, south wall: IVII?

- Harp 2014


G0776 - TALLY MARKS, STARS AND MORE

Unit 13, room 4, east wall.

- Harp 2014


G0777 - TALLY MARKS

Unit 13, room 4, north wall.

- Harp 2014


G0778 - TALLY MARKS

Unit 13, room 4, west wall.

- Harp 2014


G0180 - TALLY MARKS AND NUMBERS

Unit 13, room 4, west wall.

- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Harp 2014


G0181 - MONEY

Unit 13, room 5, east wall: XIA (?) *.

The "*" for denarii.

- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Harp 2014


G0779 - A NUMBER?

Unit 13, room 8, east wall.

- Harp 2014


G0780 - TALLY MARKS AND FRAMES

Unit 13, room 8, north wall.

- Harp 2014


G0182 - TALLY MARKS ALTERNATED BY X's

Unit 13, room 8, north wall.

- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Harp 2014


G0781 - A SHIP?

Unit 14, room 1, south wall.

- Harp 2014


G0782 - TALLY MARKS

Unit 14, room 4, west wall.

- Harp 2014


G0783 - TALLY MARKS

Unit 14, room 4, west wall.

- Harp 2014


G0784 - TALLY MARKS

Unit 14, room 4, west wall.

- Harp 2014


G0785 - A DATE

Unit 15, room 7, east wall: XIII KAL IVLIAS ? ANI.

Interpretation: June 19th.

- Harp 2014


G0786 - TALLY MARKS

Unit 15, room 7, south wall.

- Harp 2014


G0183 - A FEW LETTERS AND CURVED TALLY MARKS

Unit 16, room 5, east wall.

- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Jan Theo Bakker
- Harp 2014


G0185-G0187 - THREE DICE

Unit 16, room 5, east wall: three dice with the numbers 6, 1 and 6.
Langner 2001, nr. 2477: at 1.50 from floor, h. 7.5 cm.

- Eric Taylor (first)
- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Eric Taylor (second)
- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Eric Taylor (third)
- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Jan Theo Bakker
- Harp 2014


G0184 - A TABULA ANSATA

Unit 16, room 5, south wall: a tabula ansata with the text IATVM.

Interpretation: in an unfinished tabula ansata (left ansa missing). The thickness of the letters and the position, on the bottom line and not in the centre, suggest that we read here the English first name Tatum.

- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Jan Theo Bakker
- Harp 2014


G0787 - A NUMBER

Unit 16, room 5, west wall.

- Harp 2014


G0788 - TALLY MARKS

Unit 16, room 5, west wall.

- Harp 2014


G0789 - A NUMBER

Unit 16, room 5, west wall.

- Harp 2014


G0790 - TALLY MARKS

Unit 16, room 5, west wall.

- Harp 2014


G0791 - TALLY MARKS

Unit 16, room 5, west wall.

- Harp 2014


G0792 - OVERLAPPING CIRCLES

Unit 17, room 1, west wall.

- Harp 2014


G0196 - FRAMING A HEAD

Unit 17, room 5, north wall: a rectangle drawn over the head of a painted figure.

- Eric Taylor
- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Harp 2014


G0793 - TALLY MARKS

Unit 17, room 5, west wall.

- Harp 2014
- Harp 2014 (detail)
- Harp 2014 (detail)
- Harp 2014 (detail)
- Harp 2014 (detail)


G0193 - A NUMBER?

Unit 17, room 6, east wall: LLIIVIIIA.

- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Harp 2014


G0794 - TALLY MARKS

Unit 17, room 6, north wall.

- Harp 2014


G0795 - TALLY MARKS AND LETTERS?

Unit 17, room 6, west wall.

- Harp 2014


G0796 - TALLY MARKS

Unit 17, room 7, east wall.

- Harp 2014


G0797 - TALLY MARKS

Unit 17, room 7, east wall.

- Harp 2014


G0798 - TALLY MARKS

Unit 17, room 7, west wall.

- Harp 2014


G0799 - A NUMBER

Unit 17, room 7, west wall: VII.

- Harp 2014


G0800 - TALLY MARKS

Unit 17, room 7, west wall.

- Harp 2014


G0801 - TALLY MARKS

Unit 17, room 7, west wall.

- Harp 2014


G0802 - A CIRCLE

Unit 20, room 7, west wall.

- Harp 2014


G0803 - VERGILIUS

- Entrance corridor to the complex to the north of room 3 of the Casa delle Muse, on the north-east brick pier.
- Molle 2014, 58-60, fig. 3g-h: CONTIQUERE. At 1.42 from the base of the pier.

Interpretation: the beginning of the first verse of the second book of Vergilius' Aeneid: "Conticuere omnes intentique ora tenebant", "A general silence fell, and all gave ear".

- Molle


CETERA

- G0804. Unit 14, room 4, west wall. Harp 2014

Items listed below: location not specified, not found in 2014.

- G0178. Animation, Eric Taylor.
- G0179. Animation, Eric Taylor.
- G0188. Eric Taylor, Animation, Eric Taylor.
- G0189. Eric Taylor, Animation, Eric Taylor.
- G0190. Eric Taylor, Animation, Eric Taylor.
- G0191. Eric Taylor, Animation, Eric Taylor.
- G0192. Animation, Eric Taylor.
- G0194. Animation, Eric Taylor.
- G0195. Eric Taylor, Animation, Eric Taylor.
- G0197. Animation, Eric Taylor.
- G0198. Animation, Eric Taylor.