Paestum - House of the Swimming Pool - II
The wealthy inhabitants owned large, sumptuous residences like this villa which covers a wide area, ca, 2,800 sqm, in an "insula" located in the southern area of the city. It is the equivalent of a modern luxury house with a swimming pool or a splendid urban mansion.
This house, identified with the acronym IS. 2-4, is characterized by the presence of a double atrium and a peristyle, in the center of which there is a gigantic swimming pool, fed by three large water chutes open on the short northern side. A colonnade surrounded the garden and the pool. The temples of Hera I and II can be seen in the photo. The image clearly shows the proximity of the residential area occupied by the luxurious houses to the southern sanctuaries.
Torelli in his essay dedicated to the Roman Paestum states: "The architectural dominance of the characteristic, immense peristyle, containing the vast swimming pool accessible through a slide, dates back to the late first century A.D." Excavations carried out between 2017 and 2019 have shown that the house with a swimming pool backs onto pre-existing structures attributable to the Greek Poseidonia of the Hellenistic age.
Source: Mario Pietro Napoli, “Paestum”
I – II century AD.
Paestum, Archaeological Site Notice
Northern Insulae, Hause IS n.2-4
Paestum, Archaeological site
Paestum - House of the Swimming Pool - II
The wealthy inhabitants owned large, sumptuous residences like this villa which covers a wide area, ca, 2,800 sqm, in an "insula" located in the southern area of the city. It is the equivalent of a modern luxury house with a swimming pool or a splendid urban mansion.
This house, identified with the acronym IS. 2-4, is characterized by the presence of a double atrium and a peristyle, in the center of which there is a gigantic swimming pool, fed by three large water chutes open on the short northern side. A colonnade surrounded the garden and the pool. The temples of Hera I and II can be seen in the photo. The image clearly shows the proximity of the residential area occupied by the luxurious houses to the southern sanctuaries.
Torelli in his essay dedicated to the Roman Paestum states: "The architectural dominance of the characteristic, immense peristyle, containing the vast swimming pool accessible through a slide, dates back to the late first century A.D." Excavations carried out between 2017 and 2019 have shown that the house with a swimming pool backs onto pre-existing structures attributable to the Greek Poseidonia of the Hellenistic age.
Source: Mario Pietro Napoli, “Paestum”
I – II century AD.
Paestum, Archaeological Site Notice
Northern Insulae, Hause IS n.2-4
Paestum, Archaeological site