House of Venus in the shell
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Athanasia Varveri
Creators: Athanasia Varveri
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jun 30, 2025 03:56 PM
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History
Located on the Via dell'Abbondanza, the so-called "House of Venus in the shell" is also known as the House of D. Lucretius Satrius Valens.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/981889086
40.7518301664, 14.4928105114
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of so-called "Casa della Venere in Conchiglia" (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- casa della Venere in Conchiglia (Italian, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- House of Venus in the shell connection Pompeii (unspecified date range)
- House of Venus in the shell part of (analytical) Regio II, Pompeii (modern)
- Pompeii II.3.7 garden entrance abuts House of Venus in the shell (unspecified date range)
townhouse
- See Further:
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- AD79 House of Venus in the shell
- Pompeii Sites Casa della Venere in Conchiglia (II 3,3)
- PompeiiinPictures II.3.3 Pompeii. Casa della Venere in Conchiglia or House of Venus in the Shell or House of the Marine Venus or House of D. Lucretii Satrii Valentes
- Wikipedia (German) Casa della Venere in Conchiglia
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Athanasia Varveri, and Jeffrey Becker, 'House of Venus in the shell: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/981889086> [accessed: 06 December 2025]
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