The House of the Faun

The owner of the “House of Faun” must have been one of the most envied personality of the city at that time. The findings of this house made the archaeologist think that it was an enormous villa, with rooms used for different activities. It hasn’t been possible to understand who was the owner of this beautiful house, that’s why it’s called the house of the Faun: the name comes from a little bronze statue representing a dancing faun that was found at the centre of one of the principal room. This house was a sort of modern apartment complex and inside there was a shopping centre too. The structure is composed of two big communicating areas, each one of these has its own entrance and they were connected by shops rented to the merchants. Besides the shops it has also a lot of rooms, but we don’t know if they were private or rented. The structure has been built with very modern construction techniques: for example under the plaster there are applied lead plates to protect the house from dampness. In Rome there weren’t houses so big and imposing as this one, and in Pompei too, where there are other important villas as: the “Villa of the Mysteries”, the “House of Pansa” and the “House of the labyrinth”. All this houses are very important to understand the richness and the valour of the people which lived in Pompei.