The senses tell the room in the private apartment known as “small hunt”

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Outdoor breakfast

At the centre of the scenes that animate the third register of the floor mosaic in a dynamic and realistic way is a large composition that extends to the lower register; an open-air breakfast. It is probably taking place in the septum venationis of the late antiquity domus, the wood where the dominu...
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The rural sacrifice

A rural sacrifice takes place in the middle of the second register of the floor mosaic. Some characters are depicted in front of a statue of Diana, the goddess of hunting.One of them, evidently of high rank due to the details of his purple clothing adorned by [approfondimenti id="33573" testo_link=...
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A day of hunting at the villa

The importance given to hunting is testified to by many literary texts, especially written in imperial times, in which it is shown as the celebration of certain aspects of virtus, related to the exaltation of strength and cunning. The hunting activity was practised both as a moment of leisure for th...
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