Quadrangular Peristyle (19a & 19d)
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Publication Date
10-8-2025
Abstract
This space, accessed from the vestibule, connects all the rooms of the villa through a colonnaded peristyle overlooking an open-air center courtyard. The well-preserved mosaics have a polychrome geometric design, enclosed within a broken meander frame. The mosaic decoration of the floor runs along the entire room in a band of squares defined by a motif of intertwined ribbons with wild animals seen enclosed in wreaths of laurel leaves. The ends of the squares are decorated with birds and ivy. The direction of the protomes is not uniform along the wide corridor, indicating two paths.
Model Creation Date
02/01/2022
Alt Text
A three-dimensional model of the floor of a rectangular walkway from an ancient Roman estate that originally surrounded some kind of central structure or outdoor space. The flooring features a tile mosaic that has a repeating pattern of squares and circles, with additional details and figures visible within them, such as an elephant seen in the center of one of the circular designs. The 3D model can be freely moved, rotated, and zoomed in and out, allowing the viewer to inspect the object with greater detail and from multiple different angles.
Extent
1 3D Model
Media Type
Models (Representations); Renderings (Drawings)
Digitization Specifications
Method: Agisoft Metashape
Processing Software
Agisoft Metashape
Download Size
69MB
Geometry
252k Triangles
Format
Digital Only
Materials
1
Rigged Geometries
No
Scale Transformations
No
Textures
2
UV Layers
Yes
Vertex Colors
No
Vertices
130.3k
Recommended Citation
USF Institute for Digital Exploration, "Quadrangular Peristyle (19a & 19d)" (2025). Villa del Casale Mosaics. 7.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/idex_casale/7
