Isola Sacra - South-east part - Baths

In 1992-1993 rooms belonging to baths were found. In a frigidarium with two basins a black-and-white mosaic was uncovered. Around the edges is a city wall with four gates and with round towers on the corners. In the centre are a Nereid riding a triton, sea monsters and dolphins. It was probably made by the same workshop that was active in the Baths of the bathing attendant Epictetus Buticosus (I,XIV,8) and the Baths of Neptune (II,IV,2), in the first half of the second century AD. Underneath, another black-and-white mosaic was found, from the first half of the first century AD. Rows of towers surround geometrical motifs.

Photos: Pellegrino-Olivanti-Panariti 1995, figs. 5-8.

Drawing of the second-century mosaic from the baths.
Image: Pellegrino-Olivanti-Panariti 1995, fig. 2.

Drawing of the first-century mosaic from the baths.
Image: Pellegrino-Olivanti-Panariti 1995, fig. 3.