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A Roman house under the school gym
Top image: Arched doorways and colorful frescoes inside the Domus Liceo Cavour beneath the school gym. Source: Cantieri Narranti/Special Superintendency of Rome

A Roman house under the school gym

Near the Colosseum, Rome. mid-second century AD. Greece and Rome. Known. Free

Known. A Roman house was found under a school gym.

The school is near the Colosseum in Rome. The house dates to the mid-second century AD. It is called the Domus Liceo Cavour. The rooms still have red walls, paintings, and mosaics. One floor is a black mosaic of large tiles. When the school building was put up in 1895, workers found a lead water pipe. It names a senator, L. Fabius Gallus, and later a woman named Umbria Albina.

The page calls them the likely owners. It does not say what else is still argued.

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