Table of Figures

Figure 1: Francesco Piranesi's view of the via Consolare with the House of the Surgeon on the far right (after Fino 2006, 74)

Figure 2: Confidences by Laurence Alma-Tadema (© National Museums Liverpool (Walker Art Gallery) used with permission)

Figure 3: Triclinium from Miletus, Turkey 'lit by artificial lighting alone' (from Ellis 2000, plate 21)

Figure 4: Colour original of Figure 3 (© Simon Ellis, used with permission)

Figure 5: Graph of human likeness against familiarity showing the uncanny valley, also illustrating the effects of movement on it (after MacDorman 2005)

Figure 6: Location of Pompeii

Figure 7: Pompeii and a close-up of Insula VI, i, the north arrow pointing to AAPP site north (after mapping created by Soprintendenza Archaeologica di Pompeii)

Figure 8: Comparing a fragment of excavated plaster with extant wall decoration (© AAPP, used with permission)

Figure 9: Plan of the House of the Surgeon with room numbers (after Overbeck 1866)

Figure 10: The frontage of the House of the Surgeon (© Damian Robinson, used with permission)

Figure 11: Looking east through the door of the house into the atrium with its impluvium (© Damian Robinson, used with permission)

Figure 12: Plan of the earliest phase of the House of the Surgeon (© Damian Robinson, used with permission)

Figure 13: Timeline for the House of the Surgeon

Figure 14: Distinctive service area decoration seen in room 21 (© Damian Robinson, used with permission)

Figure 15: The garden, looking north from room 19

Figure 16: Planters against the east wall of the garden (© AAPP, used with permission)

Figure 17: The garden with vines, looking north-east from the atrium

Figure 18: The garden with more decorative plants, looking north-east from the atrium

Figure 19: View north to room 23 with transparent south Surgeon wall

Figure 20: Distorted view from the entrance to room 22 looking east towards the kitchen and north towards the atrium

Figure 21: Distorted view from the entrance to room 22 looking east towards the kitchen and north towards the atrium with added light from the light well

Figure 22: Looking into the SW corner of room 6A with windows marked (© AAPP, used with permission, additional markings by author)

Figure 23: The foundation of the east-west wall (© AAPP, used with permission)

Figure 24: View into room 6A from the door with mezzanine floor

Figure 25: View east into room 6A with the external wall removed for clarity

Figure 26: Updated interpretation of the frontage of the house as it relates to the south window of room 6A

Figure 27: A view of the frontage from the north-west

Figure 28: The frontage of the house with both commercial units having balconies

Figure 29: The frontage of the house with both commercial units with windows

Figure 30: The view north from the Via Consolare of the Houses of the Surgeon and the Vestals

Figure 31: Doorway of room 2 with sliding wooden partitions

Figure 32: Cast of the void left by wooden partitions at a shop on the Via Abbondanza (© David Rider, used with permission)

Figure 33: Concertina door to room 2

Figure 34: Close-up of the threshold with concertina door

Figure 35: Cast of the wooden shutter of a window in the Villa of the Mysteries. Note the remains of an iron hinge at the base of the join (© David Rider, used with permission)

Figure 36: Cardboard model illustrating concertina door by more low tech methods (© David Rider, used with permission)

Figure 37: The fauces, looking north-west (© Damian Robinson, used with permission)

Figure 38: The house frontage with a more decorative doorway

Figure 39: Holes chopped into plaster of east wall of room 18 for wooden stairs (© Damian Robinson, used with permission)

Figure 40: View of drain on west side of garden showing drainage hole into cistern and broken cistern head (© AAPP, used with permission)

Figure 41: The house with water drainage features in blue

Figure 42: Surgeon-aa looking east

Figure 43: Surgeon-ab looking east

Figure 44: Surgeon-ac looking east

Figure 45: Surgeon-ad looking east

Figure 46: Cistern collapse in atrium looking south into room 8A (© AAPP, used with permission)

Figure 47: Fragmentary nature of the recovered wall plaster (© AAPP, used with permission)

Figure 48: The Plastico, looking 'south' with the northern part of the city wall at the bottom of the picture and Insula VI, i in the bottom right hand corner (© Rick Jones, used with permission)

Figure 49: The Plastico, looking north east and showing the House of the Surgeon's atrium in the centre (© Rick Jones, used with permission)

Figure 50: 18th-century engraving of part of the north wall of the atrium (Carcani 1779, 361)

Figure 51: Surgeon-ba from the north-west

Figure 52: Making the roof largely transparent illustrates the link between the hypothesised roofing configuration and excavated water handling features

Figure 53: Surgeon-aa from the north-west

Figure 54: Surgeon-ab from the south-west

Figure 55: The view north from the front entrance to the atrium

Figure 56: The view north from the front entrance to the atrium with doors added

Figure 57: Room 11 as a storeroom

Figure 58: Room 11 as a storage area for lime

Figure 59: The remains of the lime layer in room 11

Figure 60: Photo of the frontage of the house merged with semi-transparent render (original photo © Damian Robinson, used with permission)

Figure 61: The frontage of the house with a more solid render giving way to the photo (original photo © Damian Robinson, used with permission)

Figure 62: A furnished and populated scene in the House of the Surgeon

Figure 63: A night scene in the House of the Surgeon

Figure 64: An aerial view of the Houses of the Vestals and Surgeon

Figure 65: Looking south at the Houses of the Vestals and the Surgeon

Figure 66: Relationship of roof to water features. Level of detail changes when mouse pointer is moved over image

Figure 67: The same view of room 11 from three different models

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