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House of the Geometric Mosaics

Address: Regio VIII, Insula 2
Area: 2211 square meters
Rooms: +30

The House of the Geometric Mosaics, which is located on Via delle Scuole, south of the Pompeii forum. The building was first excavated in 1826. The house of the Geometric Mosaic has two entrances (a) and (m) on the west side of Via delle Scuole. It also has an entrance (r), which lies at the end of a long corridor that leaves the forum at door number 7 and passes south between the Office of Aedils and Curia.

The House of the Geometric Mosaic consists of two houses connected together when the owner bought the owner's house. Therefore, this mansion has two living-atrium rooms, two separate gardens located at right angles to the central axis, and only one row of rooms between the two atriums (b) and (n). The wide entrance to No. 16 opens into the corridor (a). The walls of the hallway were covered with a layer of coarse plaster, but this was lost when the house was first excavated. The corridor has a thin black and white mosaic floor in a diamond pattern with a black and white frame. There is a decorative threshold between the corridor and the atrium, consisting of rows of black triangles on a white background. The walls of the atrium-central living room (b) were, like the corridor, covered with a layer of rough plaster, and the floor consisted of a white mosaic with a triple black frame. In the center of the atrium are the remains of a homely implium - pool, which was originally decorated with a colorful fish mosaic on black surface. The mosaic from The House of the Geometric Mosaic can be seen at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.