The complex, known as the Villa of Tigellio, refers to an archaeological area located at the foot of Buon Cammino hill, a short distance from the Roman amphitheater. Its name originates from the mistaken belief that the villa of a Sardinian musician, Tigellio Ermogene, who lived in Rome for a period and was a friend and acquaintance of Caesar, Octavian, Cicero, and Horace, was located here. The area actually includes a residential district dating back to the late 1st century BC – early 1st century AD, likely frequented until the 6th-7th century AD, and represents one of the most important examples of Roman architecture of this type in Sardinia. There are remains of a thermal building and three houses with tetrastyle atriums (that is, with four columns, with Ionic capitals positioned at the four corners of the impluvium, a central basin intended for collecting rainwater). The two best-preserved residential buildings are the “house of the painted tablinium,” so-called for the presence in the tablinium (the room after the atrium) of remains of high-quality floor mosaics, and the “house of the stuccoes,” which preserves numerous fragments of decoration in this material. The wall structures are built using the so-called frame technique, widely used in the Punic area, characterized by the use of large vertical pillars spaced apart with the intermediate wall sections filled with medium to small stones.
Information about Villa of Tigellio
Via Tigellio,
09123 Cagliari (Cagliari)
070 4560956
Info@anamnesys.it
Source: MIBACT
