{"id":6641,"date":"2026-01-13T09:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/educational-panels-and-maps\/i-quartieri-residenziali-della-classe-medio-alta\/caseggiato-del-serapide\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T17:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:20:22","slug":"caseggiato-del-serapide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/i-quartieri-residenziali-della-classe-medio-alta\/caseggiato-del-serapide\/","title":{"rendered":"Caseggiato del Serapide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Together with the\u00a0Caseggiato degli Aurighi<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Terme dei Sette Sapienti<\/em>, the\u00a0Caseggiato del Serapide<\/em>\u00a0makes up one of the city\u2019s largest building complexes, unitary from a construction point of view.<\/p>\n

The building, of the Hadrianic period (AD 117-138), had a courtyard with very tall brick pillars and at least two upper floors that could be reached from stairs located in the courtyard itself and occupied by apartments.<\/p>\n

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Axonometric reconstruction of the building
(I. Gismondi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In the early 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0century AD, a small cult building was constructed in the courtyard, with a stucco depiction of the god Serapis and other Egyptian deities at the sides.<\/p>\n

A gateway decorated with stucco reliefs was also built, with a frieze of\u00a0bucrania<\/em>\u00a0(ox heads, originally holding religious significance), which gave access to the next-door\u00a0Terme dei Sette Sapienti<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tExcavation and conservation work in the Caseggiato del Serapide\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tElevation of the entrance and of the shrine with a statue of the god Serapis (A. Pascolini)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Together with the\u00a0Caseggiato degli Aurighi\u00a0and the\u00a0Terme dei Sette Sapienti, the\u00a0Caseggiato del Serapide\u00a0makes up one of the city\u2019s largest building complexes, unitary from a construction point of view. The building, of the Hadrianic period (AD 117-138), had a courtyard with very tall brick pillars and at least two upper floors that could be reached from stairs…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6620,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6641","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6641","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=6641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6642,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6641\/revisions\/6642"}],"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=6641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}