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House of the Ceii (I,6,15)
The owner may have been L. Ceius Secundus, mentioned in a campaign message painted on the house’s façade. It has a simple layout: the entrance leads to the atrium, from which the other rooms open out; at the back, a corridor between the triclinium and tablinum leads to the yard. A staircase with a wall in opus craticium leads to the upper floor, under construction. The rooms are richly decorated in late ‘third style’, with floors of signinum opus and tessellated lavapesta, which form geometric shapes in the tablinum between tiles of polychrome marble. The garden is enlarged by the big hunting scene painted on the back wall, while along the sides run landscapes of vaguely Egyptian tenor, according to a decorative fashion widespread during the final years of life in Pompeii, intended to recreate enchanting scenes and distant landscapes in the city.
