Regio IX, Insula 12
Length of block – 34.11 m
West side street – Unnamed street (4.52 m wide)
East side street – Unnamed street (3.81 m wide)
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Doorway | Excavation Date(s) [1] |
Function [2] |
Name [2] |
IX, 12, 1 | 1912 | Ground floor: Shop and workshop - woven fabrics | Weaver's workshop of Rufus |
IX, 12, 2 | 1912 | Stairway to upper story Upper floor: house or apartment |
House of the First Colonnade House of the Colonnaded Dining Room House of the Banquet Hall |
IX, 12, 3 | 1912 | Workshop - shoemaker | None |
IX, 12, 4 | 1912 | Stairway to upper story Upper floor: house or apartment |
House of the Second Colonnade House of the Second Colonnaded Dining Room House of the Grand Colonnade |
IX, 12, 5 | 1912 | Ground floor: Shop and workshop - woven fabrics | Weaver's workshop of M. Comus |
IX, 12, 6 | 1912, 1987, 1990 | Entrance to house or workshop or brothel or inn or tavern Stairway to upper story |
House of Crescens Workshop of Crescens Inn of Crescens Bakery of C. Julius Polybius? House of the Chaste Lovers |
IX, 12, 7 | 1912, 1987, 1990 | House or inn or tavern or shop | House of Cornelius Maximus Inn or tavern of Porphyrio or PurpurioInn Inn or tavern of the Paridiani |
[1] Excavation dates have been transcribed from Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt POMPEJI by Liselotte Eschebach and Jürgen Müller-Trollius (Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 1993).
[2] The functions and names of the individual buildings are taken from a Catalogue of the Names of the Structures Along Via dell’Abbondanza, which was compiled by the authors. This information was obtained from seven authorities on Pompeii that are described in the Names Catalogue section of this website. The original source material for this insula can be found in the table entitled Names - North Side. Similar entries have been condensed or combined and Italian, Latin and German terms have been translated into English.