{"id":6494,"date":"2026-01-12T13:46:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/pannelli-didattici-e-mappe\/larea-dei-culti-orientali-e-il-quartiere-residenziale-di-porta-laurentina\/domus-del-pozzo\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T13:50:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:50:05","slug":"domus-del-pozzo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/larea-dei-culti-orientali-e-il-quartiere-residenziale-di-porta-laurentina\/domus-del-pozzo\/","title":{"rendered":"Domus del Pozzo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<em>domus<\/em>\u00a0(house) was installed in the second half of the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0century AD on the ground floor of an earlier apartment building (<em>insula<\/em>) of the Hadrianic period (ca. AD 130).<\/p>\n<p>Both the original entrance (A) with brick half-columns and the internal layout, arranged around a corridor (B) with the other rooms opening onto it, remained almost unaltered.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5495\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-dominant-color=\"a49e94\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #a49e94;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5495 not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/838_37-1-img001731-1.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/838_37-1-img001731-1.webp 2000w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/838_37-1-img001731-1-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/838_37-1-img001731-1-1024x768.webp 1024w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/838_37-1-img001731-1-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/838_37-1-img001731-1-1536x1152.webp 1536w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/838_37-1-img001731-1-1920x1440.webp 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">General view of the main room\u00a0(D)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The main sector of the\u00a0<em>domus<\/em>, to the north, consisted of an antechamber (C) and a room (D) whose entrance was monumentalized in the most recent phase with the insertion of two marble columns; in the same phase, new marble floors were laid in both rooms.<\/p>\n<p>An underground room (E), which can be interpreted as a cistern for rainwater or more probably as a storeroom for foodstuffs, could be reached from a staircase located in the main room.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery-article galleryid-6494 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t<a data-fslightbox='gallery' data-caption='Bust of Marcus Aurelius found in the building' href='https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/840_37-3-img001733.webp' data-title='Bust of Marcus Aurelius found in the building'><div class='ratio ratio-1x1'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1458\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/840_37-3-img001733.webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/840_37-3-img001733.webp 1458w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/840_37-3-img001733-219x300.webp 219w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/840_37-3-img001733-746x1024.webp 746w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/840_37-3-img001733-768x1053.webp 768w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/840_37-3-img001733-1120x1536.webp 1120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1458px) 100vw, 1458px\" \/><\/div><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5498'>\n\t\t\tBust of Marcus Aurelius found in the building\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t<a data-fslightbox='gallery' data-caption='Plan and sections of the underground cistern (E)' href='https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/839_37-2-img001732.webp' data-title='Plan and sections of the underground cistern (E)'><div class='ratio ratio-1x1'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1505\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/839_37-2-img001732.webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/839_37-2-img001732.webp 1505w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/839_37-2-img001732-226x300.webp 226w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/839_37-2-img001732-771x1024.webp 771w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/839_37-2-img001732-768x1021.webp 768w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/839_37-2-img001732-1156x1536.webp 1156w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1505px) 100vw, 1505px\" \/><\/div><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5500'>\n\t\t\tPlan and sections of the underground cistern (E)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0domus\u00a0(house) was installed in the second half of the 3rd\u00a0century AD on the ground floor of an earlier apartment building (insula) of the Hadrianic period (ca. 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Both the original entrance (A) with brick half-columns and the internal layout, arranged around a corridor (B) with the other rooms opening onto it, remained almost unaltered&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6476,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6494","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6495,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6494\/revisions\/6495"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}