Villa en Puente de la Olmilla

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Dates

fourth century CE

Excavation Dates

1973

Garden Description

This fourth-century villa was discovered in 1973. An apse and a figured mosaic with two panthers mark the room on the north corner as probably the triclinium. It did not, however, have a view of the garden but looked along the northeast gallery of the peristyle. That there was a garden is indicated by the presence of a pipe which crossed the northeast portico presumably to supply water for plants or a nymphaeum in the center of the peristyle.

Plans

Plan drawing of the Villa en Puente de la Olmilla.

Bibliography

M.R. Puig and R. Montanya Maluquer, "Mosaicos de la villa romana de Puente de la Olmilla (Albadalejo, Ciudad Real)," in Pyrenae: revista de prehistòria i antiguitat de la Mediterrània Occidental, ISSN 0079-8215, Nº. 11, 1975, pp. 133-143. (worldcat)
M.ª C. Fernández Castro, Villas romanas en Hispania, Madrid, 1982. (worldcat)

Keywords

Places

Puente de la Olmilla (Pleiades:266009)

Albaladejo on Gardens of the Roman Empire