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A Roman villa was typically a farmhouse or country house in the territory of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, sometimes reaching extravagant proportions. Nevertheless, the term "Roman villa" generally covers buildings with the common features of being extra-urban (i.e. located outside urban settlements, unlike the domus which was inside ...
Along with a domus in the city, many of the richest families of ancient Rome also owned a separate country house known as a villa. Many chose to live primarily, or even exclusively, in their villas; these homes were generally much grander in scale and on larger acres of land due to more space outside the walled and fortified city.
David E Johnston is a classical archaeologist and former lecturer at the University of Southampton. [1] His excavations have included the Sparsholt Roman Villa, and he has authored numerous books and research papers on Roman archaeology, art and mosaics from the 1960s to the 2010s.
The Roman army first arrived in the late 40s AD and constructed a fort for the 14 th legion south of Wroxeter. A decade later, that fort was replaced by a new one built less than a mile north.
Archaeologists have unearthed a “remarkable” Roman villa complex on a housing development site in a small English village. The complex was decorated with painted plaster, mosaics and there was ...
Scale model of a Roman villa rustica. Remains of villas of this type have been found in the vicinity of Valjevo, Serbia.. Villa rustica (transl. farmhouse or countryside villa) was the term used by the ancient Romans [1] [2] to denote a farmhouse or villa set in the countryside and with an agricultural section, which applies to the vast majority of Roman villas.
The Villa Romana di Patti is a large and elaborate Roman villa located in the comune of Patti in the province of Messina on Sicily. [1] It was the seat of a rich latifundium estate, which until its discovery had few known examples except for the Villa Romana del Casale. [2] Plan of Villa di Patti VR Patti 28 10 2018 10
The Villa of Gerace (or Geraci; Italian: Villa Romana di contrada Gerace) is a Roman villa located near Enna along provincial road 78 at the Rastello-Ramata junction, on the Fontanazza estate, Sicily. [1] The elaborate villa was part of a rich estate covering 3.5 ha, one of the many historically reported but rarely excavated latifundia on