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Regio III - Insula XVI - Caseggiato III,XVI,2

This building was erected in the Hadrianic period. It has a facade of opus mixtum, which is quite unusual - normally when opus mixtum is used it is found inside the building, whereas the facade is made of bricks only. On the ground floor are two apartments, flanking an external staircase. Thin and possibly later dividing walls create rooms. The function of the rooms is suggested by remains of mosaics, and of red and yellow paintings with miniatures: large white areas are flanked on all four sides by red segments of circles; in between are wide vertical yellow bands. The paintings have been placed in the Antonine period.



Plan of the building.
After SO I.

Photos



Remains of paintings on the east wall.
Photo: Jan Theo Bakker.



Remains of paintings on an old photograph.
Liedtke 2003, Taf. 21,41; SAOA neg. nr. B1199.



A blocked doorway in the west wall. Photo: Jan Theo Bakker.


Remains to the west of the building, seen from the south-west.
Photo: Jan Theo Bakker.


[jthb - 4-May-2022]