Excavated: 1913 (no excavation report published; Vaglieri); 1970 (Pohl 1987, trenches d and e).
Mosaic: SO IV, 80-81 nrs. 123-124, tav. 139 (bottom), 175 (top), 176 (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 (ms)

Front room and back room (dga)

Front room and back room (dga)

Front room and back room (kh; 2012)

Front room and back room (gh)

Front room and back room (gh)

Front room and back room (gh2)

Statio 50 + statio 49 (centre + right) (gh2)

Depiction (top) (SO IV, Tav. 175)

Depiction (Nereid) (bottom) (SO IV, Tav. 139)

Depiction (Nereid) (kh; 2013)

Depiction (Nereid) (et)

Depiction (marine scene) (bottom) (SO IV, Tav. 176)

Mosaic

The floor of the rear part of the back room has not been preserved. Here the model has a black frame. The floor of the east end of the back room and of most of the front room has been preserved, the east end of the front room is missing. On the north side the front room is bordered by a thin, black band, three tesserae wide. It ends against the base of the brick column in the centre and is slightly to the south of the axis of the column. On the south side is a black band, seven to eight tesserae wide, on the axis of the central column. At the west end it has a restoration of white tesserae. Partly in the back room and partly in the front room is a black frame with a depiction. The frame (three tesserae wide) has a curious north-east corner: the north side consists of two bands, ending irregularly, that do not join. It is almost as if the subterranean shockwave of an earthquake has lifted and dropped the mosaic, after which it was repaired without joining the two parts of the frame. In the central part of the front room is a marine scene.

No text has been preserved.

In the frame (2.60 x 2.00) a Nereid is depicted. Next to hear is a trident. She holds a veil over her head. She is sitting on a rock, according to Becatti originally a sea creature that was mostly cancelled by restorations. She is flanked by two branches. The right one has thick side branches and a lozenge on the top. The left one has thin side branches, a P-shape and perhaps a lozenge on top. Becatti is thinking of the thyrsus with ribbons. However, the thyrsus only has ribbons at the top.

Becatti
Nereid. La figura centrale è stata alterata. Originariamente rappresentava una Nereide seduta sulla coda d'un mostro marino rivolto verso sinistra, ma del mostro non rimane che la parte centrale del corpo a volute pisciformi, mentre i lati sono stati annullati con fondo bianco, su cui sono disegnati due tirsi verticali a cui si avvolgono bende svolazzanti. Rimane la figura della Nereide con il corpo nudo e con un velo che si gonfia ad arco sopra alla testa, tenuto per un lembo dalla mano sinistra e avvolto con l'altro lembo intorno al braccio destro, al quale si appoggia un tridente.
Ships. Due navi, quella di sinistra più piccola e rostrata, con i timoni poppieri, albero maestro retto dalle sartie con l'acato quadro teso a poppa dalle scotte, albero obliquo di bompresso con dolone; quella di destra ha prua e poppa ricurve, con i timoni poppieri, albero maestro con acato appeso al pennone in bilico, fissato da una sartia ad un pennoncino obliquo sporgente da prua e da un'altra all'acrostolio di poppa. L'acato è teso dalle scotte verso poppa, sotto l'acato si vedono le sartie, che fissano l'albero maestro ai fianchi della nave, e una specie di boccaporto decorato da linee bianche di riquadratura. Le vele di ambedue le navi sono rese con il reticolato bianco dei ferzi, delle bande e degli imbrogli.
Lighthouse. Un faro a tre piani rientranti, con tre quadratini bianchi, forse ad indicare finestre laterali nei due primi piani, e uno rettangolo per la porta in basso; sul terzo è la fiamma del fuoco acceso, stilizzata.
Dolphin. Un delfino con coda falcata e occhio triangolare.

Masonry

The back wall of the back room is of opus latericium. The room does not have side walls. On the plans of Vaglieri and Gismondi is the east end of a south wall, on the model a complete south wall. Between stationes 49 and 50 the shallow foundation of a dividing wall was found, the upper part of which has disappeared (excavations Pohl). On Vaglieri's plan a wall or bench can be seen that is set against the central part of the back wall, on the model a bench, the continuation of a bench in statio 48.

Interpretation

The branches with thin and thick side branches may symbolize the absence of fruits in autumn and winter, and the appearing of fruits in spring and summer. For a further interpretation see statio 50.