In 2005, the remains of five rooms that probably belonged to the central part of a villa or public building were discovered in the car park outside Porta Consolare. Only two of the rooms were completely excavated, one of which has a well- preserved mosaic floor made up of white, pink and black tesserae arranged in geometric patterns, with birds in octagons at the corners.
The second room also has a polychrome mosaic floor (illustrated above) of some 140 square meters:
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✴In the central scene, a nude man on the left pours wine from an amphora on his shoulders into a cup held by a similar figure on the right, while spilt wine is collected in a krater below.
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✴Male figures placed symmetrically around it probably represent the seasons or the pastoral life.
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✴Oval “cushions” towards the edges frame figures of animals or birds.
The mosaics and the other objects found here seem to date to the early 4th century AD.
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