Cagliari - Villa of Tigellius

The name Villa of Tigellius has been assigned to a group of ruins to the west of the Botanical Garden. The Sardinian Tigellius was a lyric poet and friend of Julius Caesar, known from the Satires of Horace and some letters of Cicero. There is nothing however that links him to the remains, that are made up of three houses, in use from the 1st to at least the 4th century AD. One of these has been named House of the Painted Tablinum, another House of the Stucco Reliefs.

Plan of the House of the Stucco Reliefs (1-37) and the House of the Painted Tablinum (A-Z).
Image: Pietra 2018, fig. 5.

Photo: Wikimedia, LadyHella79.

Painting of a female head.
Photo: Angiolillo 1987, fig. 120.

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