The Houses on Via dei Vigili are two so-called medianum-apartments (with a "room in the middle") from the Hadrianic period, to the east of the Baths of Neptune. The rooms received light through many windows in the west facade, along Via dei Vigili. Both apartments were entered from a single, central corridor. From thresholds with pivot-holes can be deduced that the internal staircases at the end of the corridor led to independent apartments on the upper floors, as did a staircase opening on Via dei Vigili. Below the internal staircases were latrines.
Each apartment covers an area of approximately 150 square meters. The ceiling was at a height of 3.90 meters. There are a few remains of black-and-white mosaics, and of paintings with red and yellow panels.
Plan of the apartments. North is to the left. After SO I.
Photos and drawings
The facade of the southern apartment, seen from the north-west.
Photo: Klaus Heese.
Remains of wall-paintings in the southernmost room of the southern house.
Photo: Jan Theo Bakker.
Reconstruction drawing of the facade.
From Calza 1914, fig. 16.
