{"id":6583,"date":"2026-01-12T16:41:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-central-area-and-the-official-complexes\/insula-di-giove-e-ganimede\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:09:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:09:55","slug":"insula-di-giove-e-ganimede","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-central-area-and-the-official-complexes\/insula-di-giove-e-ganimede\/","title":{"rendered":"Insula di Giove e Ganimede"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0insula<\/em>\u00a0(apartment building) occupies part of the residential area known as the\u00a0Caseggiato dei Dipinti<\/em>\u00a0of the Hadrianic period (AD 117-138), with houses opening onto the street and a large communal courtyard behind (A).<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tGeneral view of the fresco in the main room (D)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tReconstruction of the courtyard of the Caseggiato dei Dipinti (A) (I. Gismondi)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n

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The layout has a central corridor (B) and a small courtyard (C), serving to light the main room (D), located in the innermost sector of the house.<\/p>\n

The building takes its name from the subject of the mythological painting in the large reception room and was altered in the late 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0century AD, when the ceiling of this room was raised to a height of two storeys and the painted decorations were made.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the frescoes of the other rooms were also redone; they preserve a graffito dating to the period of the emperor Commodus (AD 180-192).<\/p>\n

The mosaic floors belong to the building\u2019s original phase.<\/p>\n

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Graffito incised onto the painted decoration of one of the rooms in the insula
(photo Ostia Graffiti Project)
VII Kal(endas) Commodas<\/em>\u00a0– The seventh day before the calends of the month of Commodus (August\/September)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0insula\u00a0(apartment building) occupies part of the residential area known as the\u00a0Caseggiato dei Dipinti\u00a0of the Hadrianic period (AD 117-138), with houses opening onto the street and a large communal courtyard behind (A).   The layout has a central corridor (B) and a small courtyard (C), serving to light the main room (D), located in the innermost…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6512,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6583","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6583","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=6583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6584,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6583\/revisions\/6584"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}