Excavated: 1913 (no excavation report published due to the demise of Vaglieri); 1970 (Pohl 1987, trench d).
Mosaic: SO IV, 79-80 nr. 120, tav. 179 (bottom).
Inscription: ---.
Date: 190-200 AD (SO IV); 200-210 AD (Clarke).
Meas. of tesserae: 0.015 (SO IV).

Photos and drawings:

Front room and back room (ss)

Front room and back room (dga)

Front room and back room (kh; 2012)

Front room and back room (gh)

Front room and back room (gh2)

Statio 47 + statio 46 (centre + right) (gh2)

Depiction (bottom) (SO IV)

Depiction (bottom) (DAI)

Depiction (bs)

Depiction (kh; 2011)

Mosaic

The floor of the rear part of the back room has not been preserved. NADIS inv. nr. 644 shows a north-south running black band, dividing the back room in two halves. Only the north part had been preserved. It touches the north wall and is in exactly the same position as a band in statio 47. In the front part of the back room are some patches of white tesserae.

The floor of the west part of the front room has been preserved, containing a large depiction. It is surrounded on three sides by a wide, black frame: 28 tesserae on the south side, 14 on the north side, while the west side is not complete. The southern band has two irregular, white patches in the west part. This band is also on the area of statio 47. The northern band is not between stationes 45 and 46, but moved considerably to the south. On NADIS inv. nr. 644 a north-south running white band is shown in the centre of the western black band.

No text has been preserved.

In the frame we see the lighthouse, two ships with raised sails - the left one going to the right, the right one going to the left -, and a dolphin swimming to the left. A few horizontal lines indicate the sea.

Becatti
Lighthouse. Un faro a quattro piani, ciascuno con una porta ad arco stretta e alta di proporzioni decrescenti; le mura sono di opus quadratum, reso con dettagli bianchi.
Ships. Ai due lati si dirigono verso il faro due navi; rostrata quella di sinistra con il rostro decorato da una specie di occhio, i fianchi solcati da linee bianche, la poppa ricurva con ansercolo e cassero sporgente, i due timoni poppieri; l'acrostolio di prua è a voluta. All'albero maestro è appeso al pennone in bilico l'acato quadrato, reso nel reticolo bianco dei ferzi, delle bende e degli imbrogli, sotto il quale si vedono le sartie che fissano l'albero alle murate; un piccolo albero obliquo di bompresso è raffigurato a prua, con una piccola vela sommariamente accennata. La nave di destra è pesante e ricurva, con acrostolio obliquo a prua, con albero maestro al cui pennone pende l'acato teso dalle scotte espresso nel reticolato bianco dei ferzi, delle bende e degli imbrogli, appeso al pennone in bilico, retto dai sospensorî; sotto all'acato, si vedono le sartie che fissano l'albero a prua e a poppa e ai fianchi della nave.
Dolphin. Un delfino volto verso sinistra con coda a pinna trifoliata, linea bianca lungo il dorso e occhio a stella a sei punte.

Masonry

The back wall of the back room consists of two sections. The southern one-third is of opus latericium, the remainder of opus reticulatum. The sections meet with an irregular joint. The north and south wall of the room are of opus vittatum mixtum A (three layers preserved), with the north wall perhaps consisting of two sections. On Gismondi's plan the north wall does not reach the brick column, on the model it does.

Interpretation

The depictions in the front room are very similar to those of the various navicularii in the east portico. A striking difference is of course the absence of a text in the back part of the front room. It is beyond me why, through a black band, the front room of statio 46 was narrowed and that of statio 45 widened.