The ancient cobblestones of a Pompeian back street curve toward the looming two-story mass of the Lupanare — Rome's most infamous preserved brothel, its projecting wooden-beamed balcony reconstructed above the intersection of Vicolo del Lupanare and Vicolo della Fullonica — in this candid street-level photograph that captures the site with an intimacy guidebooks rarely conveyed. Published by Vincenzo Trampetti of Naples and street-marked "REG.VII-INS.XII" on the building's corner sign (the Roman regional designation for the structure's excavated address), the card is one of the relatively few interwar postcards to depict the Lupanare exterior directly — most publishers shied from the subject or restricted it to private sale. The deeply rutted basalt paving stones, the shadowed loggia, and the archaeological site markers visible on the corner wall combine to make this a document of 1930s Pompeii as much as of antiquity itself. A genuinely scarce topographical subject that collectors of classical archaeology and social history will find compelling.