III.4.a Pompeii. Side entrance. Linked to III.4.1.

Excavated c.1916-17, 1926.

III.3 Pompeii, on left. December 2004.                       Roadway looking north.                          Wall of III.4.a, on right.

III.4.a Pompeii. December 2006. Entrance doorway.

III.4.a Pompeii. December 2006. South-east corner.

According to NdS, many wine amphorae were found here in the rustic room/area on the north side of the dwelling linked to the taberna vasari, and which formed the posticum with doorway onto the roadway on the west side (Vicolo di Ifigenia).

The following inscriptions were written on some of the amphorae, the eight amphorae were all of an oval/egg shaped form and of medium size.

In red

In red

In red, on one side

And black on the other side

Perhaps P. C[orneli] Her[merotis] : CIL IV, 2726, 5599.

In black, on one side

And under the handle

Perhaps this is –

See CIL IV 2613, 2614

And on the other side was an initial traced with carbon, resembling the Christian monogram

In  black

See CIL IV 2725, 2849, 6546-6550, 7006.

In carbon, in large letters

In black

In red thick letters

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1927, (p.100)