Among the earliest dwellings of the Roman settlement established on the promontory is the Domus DR, built around the end of the 2nd century BC and occupied until the early decades of the 1st century AD. The building is organized into two distinct sectors: a residential area to the east and a productive area to the west, separated by two large central rooms.
The residential sector is arranged around a quadrangular atrium (5 × 5.50 meters) with a square basin (impluvium) at its center for the collection of rainwater, from which a small channel runs southward to drain the water. To the east and north of the atrium open several private and reception rooms. To the north, a large reception hall (tablinum), with a beaten-earth floor decorated with white tesserae forming geometric patterns and small
... read more >Among the earliest dwellings of the Roman settlement established on the promontory is the Domus DR, built around the end of the 2nd century BC and occupied until the early decades of the 1st century AD. The building is organized into two distinct sectors: a residential area to the east and a productive area to the west, separated by two large central rooms.
The residential sector is arranged around a quadrangular atrium (5 × 5.50 meters) with a square basin (impluvium) at its center for the collection of rainwater, from which a small channel runs southward to drain the water. To the east and north of the atrium open several private and reception rooms. To the north, a large reception hall (tablinum), with a beaten-earth floor decorated with white tesserae forming geometric patterns and small figures, communicated—through an off-center doorway—with a nearly square room interpreted as a dining room (triclinium). To the east were two rectangular bedrooms (cubicula) of different sizes.
The productive area to the west features a courtyard crossed by a drainage channel, with a low basin fitted with a rectangular recess, probably intended for grape processing.
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