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.
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.