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Patrizio Pensabene and Enrico Gallocchio, Villa del Casale (Renovation), Piazza Armerina, Sicily, 2011

This is an aerial shot of Villa del Casale taken by helicopter, now being reconstructed. One can see some of the reconstructed roof as well as the…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Culture, Domestic Living, Domus, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Housing, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, roman empire, Sicily, Society, Urbanism, Villa

Richard Ettinghausen, Islamic art and architecture 650-1250, 2nd ed.

Anna Leone, Reuse of Amphitheatres at Sabratha and Lepcis Magna as Domestic Spaces, 2007

These diagrams depict the subdivision of amphitheatres in the North African cities of Sabratha (top) and Lepcis Magna (bottom) into domiciles for…

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Alba Calzado, 1997, Plan of "Casa de los Marmoles" Domus, Emerita, Hispania (4th; 5th-6th centuries CE), 1997

These are plans of the so-called "Casa de los Marmoles" domus in Emerita, Hispania. The trapezoidal design had to accommodate available space,…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Casa, Casa de los Marmoles, Cities, Domestic Living, Domus, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Hispania, House, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, roman empire, spain, Urbanism

Patrizio Pensabene and Enrico Gallocchio, Palestra Floor Mosaic, Adjoining the Villa Bathhouse, 2011

This mosaic adorned the floor of the palestra, or rectangular court meant for exercise or bathing, adjoining the bathhouse of the villa. The mosaic…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Art, Byzantium, Circus Maximus, Cities, Culture, Domestic Living, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Mosaic, roman empire, Sicily, Society, Urbanism

Peter Brown, Map of Known Villas in the Roman World, c. 400 CE, 2012

This map shows the villas, archaeologically attested thus far, across the late antique Roman world around 400 CE.

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Laura & Alessandro, Insula Dianae in Ostia, Italy, Flickr, 16 February 2009

An image of the Insula Dianae, an example of insula construction dating to the second century CE within Ostia.

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Patrizio Pensabene and Enrico Gallocchio, Hercules in Dionysian Garb in Triclinium of Villa del Casale, 2011

Seen on the wall of the triclinium, or dining area, beyond the oval peristyle, this mosaic depicted the "apotheosis of Hercules" unusually shown here…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Culture, Domestic Living, Domus, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Hercules, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, roman empire, Sicily, Society, Urbanism, Villa, Villa del Casale