6: Planta de la Casa de los Delfines de Celsa a partir de la union de las Casas a y B y decoracion pictorica del techo del
oecus [12] [Cel.
We identified them as belonging to
oecus 15 (a reception room), but to the west wall--never excavated because it lies beneath a modern street.
Figure 8(a) shows a picture of a frescoed wall of the
oecus room of Villa Imperiale in Pompeii, while Figures 8(b)-8(d) show phase images taken at decreasing frequency of the surface inscribed inside the rectangle in Figure 8(a).
Entering it from the atrium through the andron, the peristyle was a square open courtyard, usually surrounded by a portico or colonnade, and leading on to a triclinium (dining room with reclining couches), kitchen (culina) and multipurpose rooms (exhedra,
oecus).
1925, replicating the megalographic second-style wall decoration in the
oecus of the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii.
The
Oecus or reception room has a particularly fine mosaic depicting the death of Adonis.
Las representaciones pictoricas de sillas de epoca romana conservadas en el
oecus de la villa de P.
There is perhaps a similar blurring of the boundaries and sense of hyperreality in the well known frieze from the
oecus in the Villa of the Mysteries.
En este caso el mosaico, ubicado en el
oecus principal de la vivienda, carece de muralla, habiendose representado un laberinto en blanco y negro con tres meandros, muy similares a la representacion de Huete, y un emblema central policromo, muy detallista, que incluye espectadores que observan la lucha mitica desde la puerta del laberinto (ibid.: no.
En opinion de Regueras y Perez Olmedo (1997: 28, 45) se trataria de un triclinio u
oecus en relacion con un patio o peristilo no detectado.