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Her0067 House of Neptune
Further down Cardo IV from the Baths is the House of Neptune and Amphitrete. Her0067 show the frescoed wall with the mosaic of Neptune and Amphitrete in/on it.
You can see from the map that this was not a very big house. The owner must have been only a member of the middle class. There was a door leading from that house with the glittering courtyard into a wine and cereal shop that fronted it. Presumably, the owner of the shop was the owner of the house in back of it since there was a door connecting them. Even the pictures cannot convey how beautiful the mosaics in this room are. The fountain and the mosaic were in a summer dining room. Her0067 show the frescoed wall with the mosaic of Neptune and Amphitrete in/on it. Her0071 is a close-up up of the Neptune and Amphitrete Mosaic. Ninety degrees from that luminous mosaic there is a totally mosaic covered fountain (nymphaem). There is an apsidal niche in the fountain that probably had a statue in it that probably some Neapolitan tunneler carried off with. Even the sides of the fountain are covered with mosaics. Her0072 shows one side of the fountain covered with dogs chasing deer and peacocks. Even the legs of the fountain are covered with flower mosaics. Her0075 shows theatrical masks decorating the top of the fountain. That such a glorious objects of art were found in just a middle class person’s house says something about Roman living standards of the time.

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· 6/24/2006 · Views: 1737 ·
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