¹ The fieldwork was financed by an Australian Research Council grant. Thanks are due to Dr M.G. Cerulli Irelli and Prof. B. Conticello, the Superintendents, who granted the team permission to work at Pompeii, and to Dr S. De Caro, then Director of the excavations. Casa dei Capitelli Colorati and Casa della Caccia Antica were surveyed by the late Richard Apperly of the University of New South Wales. Casa dei Capitelli Figurati was surveyed by the late Richard Apperly and Zig Kapelis of the University of Adelaide. The architectural survey was conducted by the present author, now at the University of Melbourne. Two of these houses have been published: Gierow, M. Staub, Casa del Granduca und Casa dei Capitelli Figurati (Häuser in Pompeji 7) (Munich, 1994)Google Scholar; Allison, P. and Sear, F., Casa della Caccia Antica (Häuser in Pompeji 11) (Munich, 2002)Google Scholar. I am grateful to Dr G. Jansen, who read this and the earlier article and offered many useful comments.

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⁹ In an as yet unpublished report, R. Meyer-Graft has noted that traces of base plaster, similar to that of the columns, have been found on the peristyle walls south of room 32 and south of room 24.

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¹⁴ Jashemski, Gardens (above, n. 5), 33, pl. 52. These beds are shown in a watercolour by Giacinto Gigante (1835).

¹⁵ Jansen has discussed a number of domestic water systems in Pompeii, and in some cases the water entered the house through the fauces: Casa del Balcone Pensile, Casa dell'Orso and Domus Cornelia. However, in many other houses it entered by other routes: through a shop (Casa di Caecilius Iucundus) or the kitchen (Casa dei Obellii Firmi). See Jansen, G., ‘Water pipe systems in the houses of Pompeii’, in Koloski-Ostrow, A.O. (ed.), Water Use and Hydraulics in the Roman City (AIA Colloquia and Conference Papers 3) (Dubuque (Iowa), 2001), 27–37Google Scholar.

¹⁶ No trace of the pipe has been found on the Casa dei Capitelli Colorati side of the wall. However, it can be seen clearly emerging through the Casa del Granduca side of the wall. For the water system in Casa del Granduca, see Sear, ‘Cisterns’ (above, n. 2).

¹⁷ The staircase in room 29 seems to have been built at the same time as the peristyle. Its treads are of lava and they are supported on a segmental arch of Sarno voussoirs. The staircase ends in a square landing to the east, and a single surviving lava step indicates that it then continued north. It therefore must have led to a room or rooms above the small house east of 57 and 58. This house probably belonged to the owners of Casa dei Capitelli Colorati because, according to the Roman law of superficies solo cedit (that which stands on the land goes with it), there was no such thing as a strata title. If the system of law in force at Pompeii in the third and second centuries BC followed the same principles, the fact that the owners of Casa dei Capitelli Colorati owned the upper floors indicates that they must have owned the land too.

¹⁸ Dr Jansen has pointed out to me that there is a similar fountain in Casa dei Postumi, where a pipe runs to a room (perhaps a dining-room) on the south side of the peristyle.

¹⁹ There is a small water jet supplied by a lead pipe at the edge of the impluvium of the atrium of Casa delle Nozze d'Argento, and a lead pipe runs up to the edge of the impluvium of Casa del Granduca — see Sear, ‘Cisterns’ (above, n. 2), 133–7. Jashemski, Gardens (above, n. 5), 52–3, mentioned an impluvium with a fountain jet in Casa dell'Atrio Corinzio (V.30) at Herculaneum. See also Jansen, ‘Water pipe systems’ (above, n. 15).

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⁴² In Casa del Granduca they were placed inside terracotta tubes, presumably to prevent them being crushed. This is the only instance of this found so far — see Sear, ‘Cisterns’ (above, n. 2).

⁴³ H. Eschebach ‘Die Gebrauchswasserversorgung des antiken Pompeji’, Antike Welt (1979), 24, fig. 37.

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