{"id":6622,"date":"2026-01-12T17:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/educational-panels-and-maps\/i-quartieri-residenziali-della-classe-medio-alta\/domus-di-amore-e-psiche\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:44:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:44:52","slug":"domus-di-amore-e-psiche","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/i-quartieri-residenziali-della-classe-medio-alta\/domus-di-amore-e-psiche\/","title":{"rendered":"Domus di Amore e Psiche"},"content":{"rendered":"

The aristocratic residence, built in the 4th<\/sup>\u00a0century AD, was installed in an earlier commercial building and had two storeys, the uppermost of which was probably a service storey.<\/p>\n

Arcades on columns separated the inner corridor (B) from an open-air garden, which had a marble nymphaeum with an architectural fa\u00e7ade on one side (D).<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tPlan of the domus with the mosaics (R. Falconi)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tAxonometric reconstruction of the domus (R. Jadri\u0107, M. Kolari\u010d, T. Marasovi\u0107, A. Pavlovi\u0107)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n

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The corridor led into the main room (E), whose walls and floors were embellished with valuable inlays of coloured marbles.<\/p>\n

Another room (G), opening onto the corridor, also had a marble veneer and at the centre a sculpture group depicting Cupid and Psyche; a cast can be seen today whilst the original is kept in the Museo Ostiense.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tDetail of the opus sectile floor of the hall D\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tGroup with Cupid and Psyche (Museo Ostiense)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The aristocratic residence, built in the 4th\u00a0century AD, was installed in an earlier commercial building and had two storeys, the uppermost of which was probably a service storey. Arcades on columns separated the inner corridor (B) from an open-air garden, which had a marble nymphaeum with an architectural fa\u00e7ade on one side (D).    …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6620,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6622","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6622","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=6622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6623,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6622\/revisions\/6623"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}