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Casa di Annio

In the descriptions Via di Annio is presumed to run from south to north.

Plan of the Casa di Annio.


G0340 - TALLY MARKS

- Room 6, south wall.

Interpretation: tally marks.

- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Brenders 2015


G0398 - CIRCLES AND ROSETTE

- Room 8, south wall, on the blocking of a door.

Interpretation: circles and rosette.

- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Brenders 2015


G0332 - TALLY MARKS

- Room 9, north wall.

Interpretation: tally marks.

- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Brenders 2015


G0333 - TALLY MARKS

- Room 11, north wall: III.. .

Interpretation: tally marks.

- Animation, Eric Taylor
- ICCD N005270
- Brenders 2015


G0338 + G0339 - MONEY

- Room 11, north wall:

* I.VI
* +++ *+II
++I

Interpretation: * stands for denarii. What does the + mean?

- ICCD N005268
- ICCD N005269
- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Brenders 2015
- Brenders 2015


G0402 - A NUMBER

- Room 11, north wall: ..LA.     LXXVII.

Interpretation: the number 72.

- ICCD N005267
- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Brenders 2015


G0330 - OBJECT LOOKING LIKE AN AMPHORA

- Room 12, south wall.
- Langner 2001, nr. 2406: at 0.66 from floor, h. 0.32.

Interpretation: at first sight an object looking like an amphora, but the lines on the body do not support that interpretation.

- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Langner
- Brenders 2015


G0331 - A SNAKE?

- Room 12, south wall.
- Langner 2001, nr. 1824: at 1.70 from the floor, w. 0.10.

Interpretation: according to Langer, rather optimistically, a snake with a comb on its head. That would make it a Genius Loci. In art the Romans distinguished between snakes with and without comb, male and female.

- Langner
- Brenders 2015


G0769 - A NUMBER

- Room 13, south wall, west end: [---]ΛXII.

Interpretation: "Λ" for A(sses)?

- Brenders 2015
- Brenders 2015


G0335 - A MAP?

- Room 15, north wall, on the blocking of a door.

Interpretation: at first sight many incoherent lines, but that is not a convincing explanation. A map of part of a city?

- Eric Taylor (the first photo is in reality also above the second one; the two photos partly overlap)
- Jan Theo Bakker (overview)
- Jan Theo Bakker (top part)
- Jan Theo Bakker (central part)
- Jan Theo Bakker (lower part)


G0334 - GREEK NAMES

- Solin 1972, 198: POYΦINA KAΛΛIC | NEIKH.

Interpretation: Greek names, Rouphina, Kallis, Nike. According to Solin Kallis is probably the name of a man.

- Solin
- ICCD N005271
- ICCD N005271 (detail)


G0468 - A NUMBER

Interpretation: the number 14 it seems.

ICCD N005410


G0770 - TALLY MARK AND TWO NUMBERS

Interpretation: tally marks and two numbers a bit lower on the wall.

- ICCD N005266


CETERA

- G0336: Room 11, north wall: Animation, Eric Taylor, Brenders 2015
- G0337: Animation, Eric Taylor
- G0391: Langner 2001, nr. 1389. Store room behind oecus = ? The head of an animal? At 1.70 from the floor, w. 0.04 x h. 0.06. Langer