The
house with the Corinthian atrium is named after a small home garden
or atrium, where a small central marble fountain is surrounded by
six Corinthian tuff columns. In ancient times, the columns were
lined with artificial marble plaster. Today, most of it collapsed.
This small house, therefore, joined the atrium or the living room of
the house with a peristyle i.e. home garden.
The peristyle or
home garden, which is surrounded by rooms on its three sides, is
decorated with frescoes in the fourth style. the decorations consist
of red and black panels over the bottom black frieze. The upper zone
is decorated with architectural motifs on a white background. In the
center of the peristyle is a small marble cruciform pool. Perhaps in
ancient times there was also a small fountain.
Right at the
entrance there are rooms with a staircase to the second floor on the
right, and on the left the room is decorated with mosaics on the
floor in the form of various geometric shapes. The walls of the room
are decorated in the fourth style with orange panels separated by
columns above the lower red decorative frieze. The upper zone has a
white background and has architectural motifs. A small triclinium
has preserved various household items and furnishings found here by
archaeologists. Unlike artifacts in a museum that do not carry
context or furnishings, these objects stand where their owners put
them and where they were seen by all the inhabitants of the house.
In general, the house is not big, but its decoration speaks of a
rather wealthy man who wanted to build a modest but comfortable home
for himself.