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Private houses
• In Latin there are three words denoting housing; domus = rich city house, villa = country house and insula = apartment building.
• More than 100 housing remains have been excavated in the region of Patras.
• The fanciest, for the wealthy are located in Psilalonia area, while many villas were mainly found in West Achaia.
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Villa rustica – Villa suburbana
• In Patras even town houses (domus) have elements of country homes, therefore they are called “villae suburbanae”.
• Wealthy peoples’ homes were usually of the same basic design as follows:
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Building technique
Romans used all different kinds of materials and patterns
Opus testaceum (bricks in even horizontal courses)
Opus mixtum (small stones alternating with horizontal courses of bricks)
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Non symmetrical wall pattern
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Opus quasi reticulatum
Small cubic stones unevenly arranged diagonally enclosed by bricks
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Glass window
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Terracotta oil lamp with bronze suspension hook (1st c. A.D.)
Made by student E. Liana
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Antefixes
Drawing made by student D. Voutsina
With palmettes
With Gorgoneion (Medusa’s head)
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Clay chimney cover
Drawing made by I. Christidi
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Mosaics
• House walls were brightly painted and the floors were often richly decorated with mosaics.
• Many mosaics captured scenes from everyday life as also geometrical patterns, flowers, animals and deities.
• The picture was made up of several thousand tiny pieces of colored stone, each about 0.2 in (5mm) square. They were laid in wet plaster by expert mosaic makers.
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Geometric mosaic pattern on the making. By the student A. Kouzeli
The results
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Geometric floor pattern
Made by the student D. Voutsina
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Geometric floor pattern
Made by student I. Papadionysiou
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Geometric mosaic floor
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Plain mosaic of cheap pebbles without pattern
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Mosaic floor with proverbial inscriptions and fishes, 3rd c. A.D., Kanari str.
Made by the student A. Kousoula
«Κλειδίον εάν απολέσης γείνεται» = if you lose your key, you can make a new one
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Mosaic with fishes and birds. 2nd c. A.D., Sisini Str.
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Mosaic with god Panas treading grapes and inscription, 3rd c. A.D., Karolou str.
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The three Graces dancing around an open altar with offerings. 2nd–3rd c. A.D., Agiou Dimitriou str.
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Copy of the mosaic made of glass pebbles by the student D. Bakas, 11th grade
1st price in contest “Traveling all over ancient Achaia”, organized by the Archeological Museum of Patras, February 2012
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Mosaic, 2nd c. A.D., Psilalonia.Venus holding a mirror: her naked body was cowered with a dress after new work was carried out on the mosaic during early Christianity.
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Mosaic. Triton who is riding a seahorse surrounded by guilloche, late Roman period, Nikita str.
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Wells. Fragment of a stone rectangular well rim.
Made by the student A. Spetsieris
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Well (?) found in upper town of Patras
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Clay pipes
Made by student A. Kouzeli
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Part of roman sewage system network in upper town of Patras
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Some of these pipes are still in use today!!!
Roman sewage system network - Detail