House of the Wild Boar

Дом Дикого Кабана (Помпеи)

 

Дом Дикого Кабана (Помпеи)  Дом Дикого Кабана (Помпеи)

Address: Regio VII, Insula 4
Area: 454 square meters
Rooms: 17

 

The House of the Wild Boar, also known as the House of Ancient Hunting, was repaired after an earthquake of 62 AD. The lobby (a), which leads from the south side of Via della Fortuna, leads to the square atrium (b) or the central living room. The walls retain a part of the plaster with colorful frescoes, but they are in very poor condition, which makes it difficult to describe its original appearance. The House of the Wild Boar has a relatively standard layout. The atrium leads to the table or the main bedroom in the house, which gives access to the peristyle, home garden, behind the building. Atrium or guest room has a central pool or impluvium. The walls of the room received significant damage during the eruption. Of course, natural erosion after archaeological excavations further damaged the frescoes. The wall decoration consisted of red and yellow panels over a dark red frieze, but most of the details had long since disappeared.

 

Дом Дикого Кабана (Помпеи)  Дом Дикого Кабана (Помпеи)

The room (s) on the east side of the atrium is also in a rather poor state of preservation. She also lost most of her jewelry and frescoes. A short corridor in the southeast corner of the atrium leads to a small kitchen (d). In the northwest corner of the atrium there are two more rooms (c) and (h). Of all the rooms located around the atrium, only room (h) retains its fresco decoration, which was made in the fourth style and consists of white central panels framed with architectural details on a white background above the bottom dark red decorated frieze. The room has a vaulted ceiling.

Medallions and graceful figures are located on either side of the central panel, and the central panels кееп are mythological scenes. The scenes depict Aphrodite (or, perhaps, her Roman version of Venus) on the north wall, the Golden Rain (disguised god Zeus) of Diana the western wall, and Leda and Cygnus on the southern wall. Directly south of this room is ala (g), a recess in the wall. Ala is decorated with frescoes in the fourth style with fantastic architecture on a yellow background above the lower dark red decorative frieze. In the upper zone, the architectural theme continues along with the image of Mercury with a cane and winged sandals. At the southwest corner of the atrium there is the triclinium (f) or bedroom, which has a window with a peristyle view to the south. Triclinium has a little remaining decoration, only a few remnants of plaster.

 Дом Дикого Кабана (Помпеи)  Дом Дикого Кабана (Помпеи)

Дом Дикого Кабана (Помпеи)  Дом Дикого Кабана (Помпеи)

Дом Дикого Кабана (Помпеи)