The aristocratic residence, built in the 4th century AD, was installed in an earlier commercial building and had two storeys, the uppermost of which was probably a service storey. Arcades on columns separated the inner corridor (B) from an open-air garden, which had a marble nymphaeum with an architectural façade on one side (D). The corridor led into the main room (E), whose walls and floors were embellished with valuable inlays of coloured marbles. Another room (G), opening onto the corridor, also had a marble veneer and at the centre a sculpture group depicting Cupid and Psyche; a cast can be seen today whilst the original is kept in the Museo Ostiense.
Axonometric reconstruction of the domus
(R. Jadrić, M. Kolarič, T. Marasović, A. Pavlović)
Plan of the domus with the mosaics
(R. Falconi)
Detail of the opus sectile floor of the hall D
Group with Cupid and Psyche
(Museo Ostiense)
View of the nymphaeum of the House of Cupid and Psyche
View of the main room’s opus sectile floor
Raising of the main room’s opus sectile floor during restoration (1939)
Head of Athena and portrait of a man discovered in the domus