EditorialGarden and peristyle, House of the Vettii, Pompeii. Marble tables, fountains and geometrical flower-beds are typical of Pompeiian taste in the 1st CE.
EditorialSmall column with ivy. Marble. 1st century AD. From House of the Vettii, Pompeii. Special Superintendence for the archaeological goods of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae.
EditorialPompeii. House of the Vettii. Lararium. Two Lares, holding a rhyton, flank a genius with a libation bowl and incense box, his head covered for a sacrifice. The snake, associated with the prosperity, approaches an altar. The tympanum shows a patera, an ...