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House of Sulpicius Rufus

House of Sulpicius Rufus is located on an unmarked street that leads from the south side of Via di Nola. The house was first excavated in 1880 and again in 1887. The House of Sulpicius Rufuss is named after the stamp with a name of Sulpicius Rufus. The building is also sometimes called the House of Piglet (Porcellino) in honor of the picture of the head of a pig, found on the northern wall of the kitchen.

The hallway of the House of Sulpicius Rufus lost most of its original plaster and frescoes, and what was left was too dull to give a realistic description. A small restroom (b) and two cubes - bedrooms (c and d) open from the north side of the entrance hall (access to the room (c) is currently blocked). In these rooms there are remnants of the original plaster, but again it is impossible to describe the decor due to poor preservation. The corridor opens directly into a small peristyle with a central garden surrounded by a low wall. Columns and pillars of the colonnade are made of brickwork, covered with plaster.

The cubiculum bedroom (e) opens from the northwest corner of the peristyle. the room is decorated with frescoes in the fourth style with red panels over the bottom black frieze. The stucco was lost from the north wall, but the central panels on the east and west walls contain a large mythological scene.

The scene in the center of the eastern wall depicts the goddess of victory Nike near the Victory Monument. On the western wall, the scene depicts a young man with a pack of hunting dogs. Side panels contain fan-shaped inserts with animals on a black background. The upper zone consists of stylized plants set among fantastic architecture on a white background. In the center of the southern wall there is a rectangular window overlooking the peristyle and the garden. In the center of the western side of the peristyle is the triclinium (f) - the office of the owner of the House, Sulpice Rufus. The triclinium, which is open from the peristyle on most of its width, is decorated with frescoes in the third style in the form of a loggia with the surrounding low balustrade. Above the balustrade in the center of each wall are large architectural scenes located on a red background.