The salutatio ceremony indicates the act of greeting and, by extension, visiting or offering a gift. In its simplest meaning, it represents the morning greeting that the dominus or pater familias received from the clientes. The latter generally represented all people of lower rank who exercised a f...

The iconography that unfolds in the centre of the floor of the vestibule is marked by figures in ceremonial dress, intent on receiving an important individual, presumably the dominus of the villa, who would have advanced on horseback from the left, and therefore from the monumental entrance.At first...

The upper register, which would have housed the most distinguished people, shows the entire figure of a young man holding a branch with lanceolate leaves in his right hand. This subject may allude not only to the rite of the [approfondimenti id="33434" testo_link="adventus"] and the [approfondimenti...

This rectangular space, accessed through a large porticoed courtyard [dettaglio_immagine id="35382"] spread out in a fan shape, opens up to the main rooms of the villa according to the typical tradition of the domus with an atrium and with an atrium and peristyle. Vitruvius, a Roman architect and...