Germania Inferior / Cologne
Atrium House
West of the House of Dionysos stood the so-called "atrium house" which covered an area of 1400 sq. m. (Plan 1). It was built around the middle of the 1st century CE.
Entering ...
Cologne
Place Description
Known as Ara Ubiorum, or Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, this large town on the west bank of the Rhine river was the civitas capital of the Ubii in the first half of the 1st century CE. It was granted the status of colonia by Claudius in 50 CE and became the provincial capital in 85 CE.
Places
- Ara Ubiorum/Col. Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (Pleiades:108751)
- Cologne (inhabited place) (TGN:7004446)
- Germania Inferior (Pleiades:981524)
- Germania Inferior (province) (TGN:6002234)
5
garden articles
in Cologne have
been published:
Germania Inferior / Cologne
House of Dionyius
The largest urban villa excavated thus far in Cologne is the House of Dionysos (3400 sq. m.), named after the early 3rd century mosaic floor decorated with Dionysiac motifs in ...
Germania Inferior / Cologne
Urban House on Gertrudenstrasse
This Mediterranean-type house just inside the western city wall had a peristyle courtyard ca. 9 x 14 m. in size, in the middle of which was a pool (3 x 8 m.) with apsidal ends (P ...
Germania Inferior / Cologne
Urban House on Lungenstrasse
In the second half of the 1st century CE a large peristyle house was constructed on the western fringe of the city, built on the remains of abandoned pottery kilns. The peristyle ...
Germania Inferior / Cologne
Urban House on Wolfsstrasse
Only a fraction of this house in the immediate vicinity of the House on Gertrudenstraße was excavated. Enough was salvaged, however, to be able to recognize that the house was of ...