Casa dei Dipinti
Casa dei Dipinti ( House of Paintings ) is the modern name of a house in ancient Ostia . The house, together with several other houses (see: Domus di Giove e Ganimede ), formed an insula with a magnificent garden in the middle, which was decorated with statues, benches and marble basins. The house once had three to four floors. The luxurious apartment in the lower part consisted of twelve rooms; seven rooms were on the ground floor and five more on the first floor, with the representative rooms about 6 m high and the other rooms only 3 m high.
The house was built in Hadrian times and rebuilt in Severan times. It was probably still inhabited in the early Middle Ages. The house is a good example of the high living luxury of a rich middle class in the second century AD in a large Roman city . The wall paintings ( Dipinti ) that gave the house its name are now lost.
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Coordinates: 41 ° 45 ′ 18.13 ″ N , 12 ° 17 ′ 16.8 ″ E