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Opulent pavement

Opus sectile pavement in a villa dining room. — Opus sectile pavement in a villa dining room. Photo: S. Castellani, after Paris et al. 2019: 72

The pavement is in an opus sectile style, popular in Rome in the late second and early third centuries. The archaeologists found no evidence for activity on the site after the Gordian period, which ended with the deposition of Gordian III in 244 CE.

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