| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Monument | |
| Name: | Panayia Villa | |
| Description: | Fourteen rooms of a large Late Roman town house, or domus, include two with intricate geometric mosaic floors and one with a central marble fountain. Of two peristyle courts within the building, one featured an internal stream running inside the colonnade. Another room contained a long concrete pool. The house was decorated with wall paintings and one small room contained a crèche of small scale sculpture. Dating the building’s use is problematic because very little material culture was preserved on the floors under the destruction horizon. While the mosaics suggested a date in the 2nd century A.D., the use fill of a well dates to the late 3rd century. Since the well went out of use with the construction of the walls built over it, the mosaics and their architectural setting should be later. When the long concrete pool was poured, the foundations cut a large pit containing pottery dating to the Tetrarchic period, possibly even as late as Constantine (c.274–337 A.D.). Coins in the destruction debris suggest that it burnt down before the end of the same century. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Plans and Drawings (6) |
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