Sicily

There is a circular pool in the center of the peristyle in this grand house (Fig. 5). The date of this pool may belong to the substantial refashioning of the dwelling in the ...

A pool, still frescoed in blue, has recently been uncovered at the south end of the peristyle, no doubt opposite the principal room of the south range (which remains to be ...

There is a rectangular tank or fountain set against the rear wall of a small internal court (Fig. 5) in this almost totally unexcavated house, which lies back to back with the ...

In private housing at this site on the east coast no excavation has so far been attempted to reveal the presence of gardens, and little is known of the arrangements for running ...

In the Roman period, the clearest evidence for the presence of a formal garden in a public place comes from Syracuse, where an impressive piazza, 175 by 45 meters, was laid out ...

There is a four meter square basin located in the middle of the space enclosed by the peristyle (Fig. 6). Belonging to Farrar's type D, the pool has a square exterior and an ...

There is a rectangular fountain basin set at the south end of the peristyle facing the triclinium, probably of the second century A. D. (Figs 8 and 9). Plans Images Fig. 8 ...

There is a small semicircular basin (Farrar Type E) inserted in a secondary period in the north edge of the peristyle, facing the principal marble-paved reception or dining-room ...

This fourth-century villa on the north coast has also yielded evidence for a garden (but no ornamental pools). A figured mosaic pavement belonging to an earlier, third-century ...

The sumptuous fourth-century villa has, not surprisingly, a large and most elaborately-shaped pool at the center of its main peristyle (Farrar Type G: Fig. ): it consists of a ...