Excavated: shown on Lanciani's plan from 1881, but perhaps only partially excavated. If so fully excavated in 1912.
Mosaic: SO IV, 67 nr. 88.
Inscription: ---.
Date: 190-200 AD (SO IV).
Meas. of tesserae: 0.015-0.02 (SO IV).

Photos and drawings:

Front room and back room (gh)

Front room and back room (gh2)

Statio 7 + statio 6 (centre + right) (gh2)

Geometric design (et)

Mosaic

The floor of the back room is lost. The west, north and east part of the mosaic in the front room are lost, in the central-south part a geometric design has been preserved of black and white plus-shapes. On the south side it is bordered by a very wide black frame. The front room is separated from statio 7 by a narrow band of marble on the axis of the central column. According to NADIS inv. nr. 642 the entire floor was covered by the geometric design.

No text has been preserved.

No depictions have been preserved.

Becatti
Geometric design. Tutto il campo è decorato da quadrati neri che hanno un quadratino nero su ciascuna metà dei lati esterni come appendici cruciformi, ma il motivo non si ripete regolarmente e presenta anche croci greche nere con quadrati intermedî.

Masonry

The back room has a rear wall of opus latericium, a south wall of opus vittatum simplex (three layers preserved) and no north wall. On the plans of Lanciani, Vaglieri and Gismondi the situation is different. There is no south wall. On Vaglieri's plan a bench or wall is drawn along the south part of the back wall, almost reaching a door in this wall, leading to rooms to the east. There is however a north wall on the plans, on Vaglieri's plan not reaching the brick column. No north wall can be seen on photos from 1931 (Calza 1931, figs. 22 and 24). The model is different again. It has no south wall, and a north wall that does reach the brick column, with a bench set against it.

There is an indication that the current situation is correct. On the three plans the door in the back wall is entirely to the south of the presumed north wall, but it is not. A wall departing from the brick column in the centre would have been set against the left part of the threshold. Any architect would have drawn such a situation correctly. Apparently Lanciani mixed up the south and north wall of room 6, an error that was copied later without inspection in situ.

The door is in the north part of the back wall and was installed together with the wall. It has a high travertine threshold (for more information see the separate description of the rooms to the east of the porticus). A door in the back wall of stationes 14 and 15 is in exactly the same position, and both doors have a width of 3.15. The doors seem to be in the exact centre of the west wall of respectively rooms c-d and e-i to the east.[1]

Interpretation

We do not know for certain whether there ever was an inscription or depiction in the statio. However, the NADIS drawing and Becatti's description suggest that the entire floor was covered by the geometric design. This generic type of decoration and the door in the back wall suggest that the statio served as a corridor only.

The position of the doors in stationes 6-7 and 14-15 shows that no west-east walls (made either of masonry or wood) were to be built in the back rooms. Each door should be accessible from two stationes.

(1) This symmetry implies that rooms a-b had a special function.