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Flavian age, there was a radical change in the layout and functions of the villa. In the main nucleus, some floors were replaced; the viridarium with pergola was replaced by a complex series of service rooms (kitchens, storerooms, tubs). A grandiose peristyle with Tuscan travertine columns and a series of small rooms on the three sides of the peristyle was built alongside the western side with the main nucleus. These small rooms - about thirty in all - are generally similar in size with floors of bare rock, except for the central room on the west side which was larger and paved with black and white mosaic and contained an altar, and a marble seat, while a masonry counter in the NW corner of the room bore the long and important eulogy for
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Behind the ergastulum peristyle there is an open corner at the end of a road, evidently used as a point of arrival and parking for wagons from the surrounding countryside. Room 34 at the NW corner of the peristyle is a latrine and along the south side of the same complex are 50 closets intended for
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in the western part of the "noble" nucleus. In this phase a series of entrances to the portico were opened and the new wing was given black and white mosaic floors. Among these the floors of tablinum 13 and room 8 stand out for their finesse and complexity. During the first century AD, probably in
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with ashlar columns supporting pergolas, while a portico ran externally along the western side, perhaps to connect the villa with the adjacent fields. The eastern side of the villa had very fine geometric mosaics, among which the one decorating room 18 has a polychrome imitation of
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and related structures in the area were known, and it was very close to the known Lucus
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carpets. The exceptional opus sectile floor in room 23, one of the oldest known examples of such flooring, seems to date back to this period too.
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of the slaves with a complex set of furnishings, sculptures and inscriptions in the great peristyle is remarkable and was related to the
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Around this date the villa changed radically from a suburban luxury villa into a large agricultural production centre typical of a
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The villa that can be seen today was largely built around the middle of the 1st century BC by the senatorial family of the
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by senatorial families not far from Rome in a fertile area, being not only a country residence but also a large farm.
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flanked by side rooms, a series of rooms of various sizes on the long sides of the atrium which include
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with statues of the family's ancestors. The family also owned the more commercial villa-estate at
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