Description of the House (Reg IX, Ins 8, 6) .. The house is made up of two basic elements; a native Samnite style house based around an atrium and a Hellenistic house around a large peristyle. At the entrance is a mosaic of mythical sea creatures. The house had two atria which have remains of fourth style decoration. The fourth style decoration continues into the tablinum on the walls of which are depicted Juno, Apollo and Minerva. .. .. Off the second atrium, which seems latterly to have been used as a light well rather than a room to live in, are a lararium and a series of other rooms. The picture on the right of Bacchus and Mount Vesuvius is from the lararium and can now be seen in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. The garden, surrounded by a peristyle, is situated behind the tablinum. In this garden was found the well known bronze of a satyr with a goatskin, which decorated the edge of the central piscina. Around the peristyle are arranged several cubicula, a triclinium (which is the source of some of the frescoes pictured here), and an oecus. At the back of the peristyle is an nymphaeum with a niche decorated with mosaics, from which a waterfall cascaded into a basin set at a lower level. The small cryptoporticus which supports the niche has paintings of naturalistic subjects while the upper part of the walls in the courtyard are frescoed with hunting scenes. This house derives its name from being excavated in 1879, eighteen hundred years after the Vesuvian eruption. It is also sometimes referred to as the House of A. Rustii Veri and Tiberius Claudi Veri. It was originally built sometime in the 2nd century BC and its history includes several phases of renovation and reconstruction during the Imperial period. .. .. ..

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