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The name derives from the lovely halfcolumned
portal, with brick lintel and cornice,
built after the earthquake in 62 AD, but which
reuses the Hellenistic tufa capitals symbolizing
Victory. The dwelling, whose unusual layout
comes from an expansion of the building at
the expense of the peristyle of the adjacent
‘Samnite house’, has the remains of grooved
tufa columns and 2 pilasters with half-columns
still encased in the walls, in their original
position. Worthy of note within the dwelling
are the ‘fourth style’* frescoes; the small
courtyard to the left of the entrance that gave
the illusion of a yard, through the garden
paintings that decorated the walls; the
triclinium*, with the panel depicting Silenus
seated between two satyrs, observing Ariadne
and Dionysus.
A line of storms swept across the Little Colorado River Valley last night. I didn’t figure they’d be in the best shape on their way back uphill in our direction but gave it a shot anyway on Sunset Crater-Wupatki Road. Lots of whiskery branches leaders emerged with this one.
Großer Eichenbock (Cerambyx cerdo)
(c) Louisa König
4133+4136-20 21.07.2026
