The Roman villa of Noheda is located in the town of Villar de Domingo García (Cuenca-Spain). Among its structures is the imposing triclinium of trichora morphology, which measures 290.64 m2. It is in this room that an exceptional mosaic has been preserved, measuring 231.62 m2, made mostly with opus vermiculatum based on tesserae of up to 1.5 mm in a very varied chromatic range.
The ornamental morphology of this floor consists, on the one hand, of a large rectangular area that fits the main space of the room, where more than a hundred figures – some life-size – are profusely arranged in scenic groups, distributed in the space between a wide band of acanthus leaves and the fountain that occupies the centre of the room.
The figurative paintings are arranged in six independent but interrelated rectangular strips, with themes of mythological allegories, depictions of various ludi and allusions to literary and theatrical genres, which underlines their originality.
Collection: Multimedia
Project: 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity.
Chronology: -
Scope: Secondary Education
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSOhIQeTKjM&t=3669s
Resource type: Video
Format: Multimedia
Owner: Arqueological National Museum of Spain (MAN) (Modernalia)
Abstract: The Roman villa of Noheda is located in the town of Villar de Domingo García (Cuenca-Spain). Among its structures is the imposing triclinium of trichora morphology, which measures 290.64 m2. It is in this room that an exceptional mosaic has been preserved, measuring 231.62 m2, made mostly with opus vermiculatum based on tesserae of up to 1.5 mm in a very varied chromatic range. The ornamental morphology of this floor consists, on the one hand, of a large rectangular area that fits the main space of the room, where more than a hundred figures - some life-size - are profusely arranged in scenic groups, distributed in the space between a wide band of acanthus leaves and the fountain that occupies the centre of the room. The figurative paintings are arranged in six independent but interrelated rectangular strips, with themes of mythological allegories, depictions of various ludi and allusions to literary and theatrical genres, which underlines their originality.
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