Room 4

Renée Forsell

This room is located east of the atrium and was in its latest phase a triclinium. There are two openings, one in the NW corner leads towards the atrium. To the N another opening almost the width of the entire room leads to room d.
In the original phase the room also had a door in the S wall leading into corridor 3. That door was walled up in antiquity and covered by plaster. As the third style paintings covered the door it was probably closed some time in the Iulio-Claudian era. Filled in beam holes in the upper middle part of the E wall suggests that at some point there had been a partially vaulted ceiling. Unfortunately, the W wall is not preserved to a corresponding height, and therefore gives no further evidence in the case.
In the southernmost part of the E wall there is a niche for a couch, which has defined the function of the room.
The room had a cocciopesto floor of which only fragmentary patches remain.
The walls had, according to Mau, wall paintings in the third style. The paintings are no longer visible and only some incised horizontal and vertical lines can be discerned in the plaster on the S and E walls.