House of the Faun
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Gabriel Mckee Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Gabriel Mckee Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
A large private residence constructed ca. 180 BCE in Pompeii (VI.12.2). Its modern name derives from a bronze statue of a faun placed in its impluvium. The house also contained the Alexander Mosaic, a large-scale depiction of the Battle of Issus.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/876060818
40.7513730903, 14.4845369456
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Casa del Fauno (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Casa del Fauno (Italian, modern)
- Casa di Goethe (Italian, modern)
- House of the Faun (English, modern)
- VI.12.2 (English, modern)
- House of the Faun part of (analytical) Regio VI, Pompeii (330 BC - AD 300)
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Gabriel Mckee, Anika Campbell, Jeffrey Becker, Greta Hawes, and R. Scott Smith, 'House of the Faun: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/876060818> [accessed: 11 July 2026]
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