Excavated: 1912 (GdS 1912, May 27-31; NSc 1912, 278; Vaglieri).
Mosaic: SO IV, 67 nr. 89, tav. 186 (bottom).
Inscription: ---.
Date: 190-200 AD (SO IV).
Meas. of tesserae: 0.015-0.02 (SO IV).

Photos and drawings:

Front room and back room (dga)

Front room and back room (gh2)

Statio 8 + statio 7 (centre + right) (gh2)

Front room (ss)

Front room (Clarke 1979, fig. 45)

Front room (gh)

Depiction (bottom) (SO IV)

Depiction (kh; 2016)

Mosaic

In the back room the west part of the mosaic floor has been preserved. It continues in the front room, of which only the western end is lost. About halfway in the back room is a small part of a north-south running black band, also shown on NADIS inv. nr. 642. The model has a black band surrounding the rear part of the back room.

The north side of the floor of the front room is bordered by a narrow black band in the east part (four tesserae wide, slightly moved to the south) and by the pattern of statio 8 in the west part. At the south side the floor is bordered by a wide black band set against a narrow band of white marble that is precisely between statio 6 and statio 7. More or less in the centre of the front room is a depiction.

In the centre of the passage between the front and back room is the suggestion of a donut.

No text has been preserved.

in the front room is a depiction of a grain measure over which a rutellum is "floating in the air". To the left (north) of the grain measure are the remains of some small, black object. The black rutellum has some white tesserae at the right end, interpreted by Becatti as a hole.

Becatti
Grain measure and rutellum. Un grande moggio nero, cilindrico, su tre piedi appuntiti, con due anse verticali ad occhio, una fasciatura bianca centrale, e una fascia decorata a reticolato bianco sull'orlo in alto, mentre la metà inferiore presenta una punteggiatura a rade tessere bianche. Sopra il moggio orizzontalmente è una rasiera (rutellum) nera, come una verga rettangolare stondata alle due estremità, e in quella di destra alcune tessere bianche sembrano indicare un foro che si riscontra a volte in altre figurazioni di rutella.

Masonry

The back room has a rear wall of opus latericium. The presumed south wall was discussed with statio 6. The north wall is of opus vittatum simplex (three layers preserved). On the plan of Vaglieri the situation is different. On it we see a double south wall, the northern one of which continues along the east wall (a bench?) to become part of a single north wall of double size. The north wall does not reach the brick column in the centre of the room and on the plan a door to statio 8 is indicated by a line. No north wall seems visible on photos from 1931 (Calza 1931, figs. 22 and 24). The model is again different. The north wall does reach the brick column, and a U-shaped bench surrounds the back room.

Interpretation

Enough has been preserved of the floor to be certain that there was no mosaic inscription in this statio, unless it was at the west end, which would be unusual. There may have been an inscription over the entrance. Taken together with the minimal depiction, we should think of a generic function of the statio, for example an administrative office.