VII.15.1 Pompeii. House. Linked to VII.15.2 and VII.15.16.

Excavated c.1859 and 1871. Re-opened after restoration 2018.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. April 2019. Fountain outside doorway in Vicolo del Gallo. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. 1876 watercolour by Luigi Bazzani.

Façade and entrance doorway behind fountain in Vicolo del Gallo, in centre.

Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum. Inventory number 1431-1901.

Photo courtesy of Davide Peluso.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. September 2005.                       Fountain in Vicolo del Gallo.                              VII.7.13 on right.     

VII.15.1 Pompeii. September 2017.

Looking north along side wall of VII.15.1 on Vicolo del Gigante. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.  

Vicolo del Gigante, Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north along side wall of VII.15.1. 

VII.15.1 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance on Vicolo del Gallo.

VII.15.1 Pompeii.

12th September 1876, watercolour by Luigi Bazzani of entrance doorway showing graffiti.
Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum. Inventory number E6276-1910

Photo courtesy of Davide Peluso.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. November 2017. Steps to entrance doorway, looking north from roadway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. May 2018. Entrance doorway threshold, looking from inside. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking west towards atrium of VII.15.1,

Photo taken through the first connecting door from the west side of atrium of VII.15.2.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to cubiculum on east side of entrance.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. May 2018.

Looking south through doorway to cubiculum on east side of entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance from inside atrium. Looking south.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to cubiculum on west side of entrance.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. May 2018.

Looking south through doorway of cubiculum on west side of entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. April 2019.

Looking north across atrium from entrance corridor/fauces. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. May 2018. Looking north across atrium from entrance corridor/fauces. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.15.2 Pompeii. November 2017. Looking north from entrance corridor/fauces.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. May 2018. Looking north across impluvium in atrium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. May 2018. Site of cistern-mouth on north side of impluvium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north from entrance fauces.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. September 2017. Looking north across atrium from entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking north across atrium to corridor leading to rear of house and latrine. 

A masonry platform base is near the north wall.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. May 2018.

Corridor in north-west corner of atrium leading north to rear of house and site of latrine. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. September 2017.

Looking north-east across atrium towards doorway linking into atrium of VII.15.2. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. May 2018. Detail of masonry platform bench against north wall of atrium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.15.1 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking west towards atrium of VII.15.1,

photo taken through the second connecting door from the west side of atrium of VII.15.2.

VII.15.1/2 Pompeii. September 2005.  Garden wall on Via dei Soprastanti/Vicolo del Gigante, looking south.    VII.16 on right.

VII.15.1/2 Pompeii. February 2021.

Limestone relief signed by the master builder (structor) Diogenes depicting –

a trowel, an apotropaic phallus, a plumbline, a cudgel or an axe/a hammer that cuts orthogonally, a scalpel and two unidentifiable objects.

On display in Antiquarium at VIII.1.4 but found on the west perimeter wall of the house at VII.1.52, on Via dei Soprastanti.

Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

VII.15.1/2 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39.

Looking towards plaque high up on west wall of Vicolo del Gigante on north-west corner with Vicolo del Gallo.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 237.

Also see Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.1. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no. 19b).

VII.15.1/2 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Detail of plaque, in situ on west wall of Vicolo del Gigante. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.

See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.1. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no. 19c).

VII.15.1 Pompeii. 1972.

Tufa plaque showing “Diogenes Structor” scratched in the top centre of the plaque above the tools. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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The tufa plaque was originally situated high up on the garden wall on the north-west corner in Vicolo del Gigante. 

“Diogenes Structor” is scratched in the top centre of the plaque above the tools. 

Diogenes was probably the proud builder of the wall and scratched his name on the plaque.

The name would not have been visible from the ground.

Now held in the SAP Deposits in Pompeii: Inventory number 2254.

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge. (p. 175, H53, CIL X 868): Diogenes, builder.

See Ling, R., 2005. Pompeii; history, life and afterlife. Stroud: Tempus. (p. 125, fig. 54).

VII.15.1 Pompeii. Detail of tufa plaque showing “Diogenes Structor” scratched in the top centre of the plaque above the tools. 

According to Mau, this tufa plaque was embedded in the wall surrounding the garden at a height of 3 metres.

See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1874, (p. 156.)