domus, struttura abitativa

This is a Roman house of the Italic type, its plan organised around a central atrium. Enter through the vestibule, where a limestone threshold still bears the holes for the original door. The walls are built in opus incertum, with corner piers of mixed brickwork and the entrance pillars in opus vittatum mixtum. Flanking the entrance are two roughly square rooms, interpreted as shops or tabernae. In the eastern one, the floor’s preparation layer survives, embedded with sliced amphorae; the western shop is built in limestone opus incertum with brick corner bonding.

The narrow fauces lead into the atrium, its floor a fragmentary tessellated pavement. At its centre sits a marble impluvium, the shallow basin designed to catch rainwater. Around the atrium, several rooms have been excavated on the western side. One has a polychrome mosaic floor; another, entered over a white limestone threshold, has a white-ground mosaic. The walls here are of irregular stone blocks, with traces of painted decoration. Another room has a partially preserved signinum floor and painted plaster on its walls.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.