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So-called House of the Mosaic Columns

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Valeria Vitale

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott

Last modified Dec 19, 2025 01:47 PM — History

Suburban villa outside the Herculaneum gate in Pompeii

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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/963297877

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
40.7522621909, 14.480403531

Locations:

Associated Modern Locations:
- Casa delle Colonne a Mosaico (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Casa di Medusa (Italian, AD 1800 - AD 1899)
- Villa delle Colonne a Mosaico (Italian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)

So-called House of the Mosaic Columns makes connections with:

So-called House of the Mosaic Columns located near Necropolis of Porta Ercolano (30 BC - AD 300)

So-called House of the Mosaic Columns receives connections from:

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Place type:
estate

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See Further:

PompeiiinPictures 91. HGE12 Pompeii. Villa delle Colonne a Mosaico or Villa of the Mosaic Columns

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Valeria Vitale, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'So-called House of the Mosaic Columns: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/963297877> [accessed: 09 October 2026]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/963297877 |title=Places: 963297877 (So-called House of the Mosaic Columns) |author=Vitale, V. |accessdate=October 9, 2026 9:39 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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So-called House of the Mosaic Columns