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Villa Carmiano is a rustic Roman villa from the first century BC approximately used by a rich farmer for the production of wine. The excavation took place in 1963 in Gragnano but, following a state of abandon, the area was covered in 1998 and today only a rusted gate can be observed. The villa, however, has brought to light numerous new evidences that demonstrate the Roman splendor also present on a farm, such as wonderful frescoes and a splendid triclinium.
The Planisphere is a fresco from Villa San Marco, found during the archaeological excavations of the ancient city of Stabiae. The fresco was made in the first half of the first century and was painted under the ceiling of the portico that surrounded the second peristyle of Villa San Marco. It is the armillary spheres, where the spheres represent the equator and a meridian, displaced by the personification of the seasons.
Flora known also as Spring, is a fresco from villa Arianna, found during the archeological excavations of the ancient city of Stabiae . This fresco was painted in the cubiculum of the villa, with other three female figures, in their mythological aspect. According to some historians , Flora would be a nymph or a dea.
Villa Arianna is the oldest villa in Stabia; it dates back to the second century B.C and it is part of the archaelogical complex of ancient Stabiae. The building is divided into various parts:• Entrance area;• Triclinium area;• Gym area;• Area of the thermal district. The decorations are very refined and they highlight particular attention to miniatures of mythological characters and landscapes.
The House of the Vettii is a Pompeian domus from the Roman period of the first century.Just past the door you can admire some frescoes with war scenes, others with children making sacrifices and others related to the Myth of Cyparissus of which there aren’t other representations.
The fresco dating from the first century AD seems to be the work of a freedman named Narcissus. The subjects are Perseus and Medusa whose head is held by the hero. The female head loses its horrifying features and takes on more human ones.
The Villa of Mysteries was built in the 2nd century A.C at Pompei. It has got a great quadrangular layout with about 90 natural environments and some roof gardens, in a paronamic position a few steps from the sea. The whole building is a rustic villa located outside the city wallswhere the working and transformation of agricultural products occured . Among the many frescoes, the scene of a mysterious ritual in honor of Dionysus would give the Villa its name
At the center of the atrium of Villa S.Marco there was an impluvium, and along the side walls there were three cubicula, with a small staircase leading to the upper floor. On the east wall there was the lararium, with frescoes that simulated precious marble.
The villa of Anteros and Hercules is the only example of an otium villa in the town of Gragnano, found on the plateau of Varano.The villa derives its name from the discovery of a stone tablet with a writing in red characters which would testify its belonging to a magistrate ..In Latin " Anteros Heraclion Summar mag".It was one of the first Roman buildings found during the Bourbon excavations of the ancient town of Stabiae.
The Amphitheatre of Pompeii is the oldest surviving Roman Amphitheatre and it was buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD . The amphitheater was built around 70a.C. by Gaius Valgo and Marco Porcio and it was used for gladiator fights. Around 59 AD, a deadly fight occurred between Pompeiians and residents of Nuceria during games in the amphitheatre, so fighting was prevented for 10 years.The amphitheater stands in the south-east part of ancient Pompei.
Explored in 1778, it owes its name to the discovery of a ring with carved carnelian depicting the bust of a philosopher. Access to the villa is by a paved road and it is built around a courtyard, with a fenestrated porticus in the north, and porches in the south and east sides, while in the center there is an altar in tuff and a well for the collection of water. Around the courtyard there are varius rooms used as living and rustic areas
Recently a wooden box has been found containing 140 objects such as stones , gems, skulls and other artifacts. This is not a simple Roman period female jewelery case but it is supposed to be the equipment of a sorceress from ancient Roman times These objects were thought to have extraordinary powers such as warding off bad luck or increasing eroticism and fertility. Today they are exhibited in the Pompeii Archaeological Park.
The is located on the ceiling of Villa San Marco. In the center there is a female figure with a laurel wreath and behind her there is Minerva. On the left side there is another unidentified figure. The fresco probably wants to convey the sadness of the civil wars between the Romans. the figure with the laurel wreath is the goddess Nike. she is closely related to Athena, goddess of war
Herculaneum,is a town not very far from Gragnano. It was established in the 6th or 5th century BC as an offshoot or dependency of the Greek colony at Naples. The name and the presence of regular streets evidence such a link. Certainly in myth, as recorded by Dionysius of Halicarnassus (b. c. 60 BCE), the city was founded by the Greek hero Hercules as he passed on his way home from Iberia and his task of securing the herd of Geryones, one of his celebrated 12 labours
Bacchus was essentially a copy of the Greek god Dionysus. He was the god of agriculture and wine and the son of Jupiter (Zeus in Greek mythology). He wandered the earth, showing people how to grow vines and process the grapes for wine. Bacchus and Ceres is a fresco from Villa Carmiano, Gragnano, Campania. Roman Civilisation, 1st century. Now it is preserved in Castellammare di Stabia, at the Antiquarium Stabiano
This fresco was found in Gragnano, Villa rustica in Località Carmiano, Villa A. Triclinium 1. East wall, flying figure to left of fresco of Bacchus and Ceres. In her right hand she holds a ribbon and in the left a thyrsus
