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C. Antonine age (first half of II century A.D)
In this phase the Atrium is renovated and
restricted. The renovations were performed in
opus latericium Renovations are also present in
the thermal areas and in the oil press, where a
new Calcatorium was built.
Calcatorium from an archaeological site
Calcatorium, model reconstruction
To this phase should be attributed many of the
walls covered with fresco preserved during the
excavation, now exhibited at Palazzo Massimo in
Rome
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D. Late ancient age (end of III-IV century
A.D.) Even if this phase, in the current state
of the excavation, appears to have left few
traces, however it seems certain that the area
around the tank was used again also for
productive structures and furnaces. In the
southern side of the tank and south of the oil
press more rooms were obtained, one of which
shows traces of a floor mosaic with meander motive
Example of mosaic with labyrinth theme from
Rimini The mosaics can be - with little black
and white tiles with simple motifs - colored
tiles with spirals, braids and flowering shoots.
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The floors of the Villa
Other ones instead were made with marbles of
different colors, cut in geometric shapes this
is what is called opus sectile
Floor in brick, fishbone braid made this is what
is called opus spicatum
Example of floor from Mercati di Traiano, Rome
Catalogue of styles in opus sectile
Example of floor from Ercolano
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The floors of the villa
What do we mean by COCCIOPESTO?
Example of a floor in cocciopesto from Baia
(Naples)
Cocciopesto is a building material used as
waterproof covering for floors, both internal and
external, but also for covering walls (for
example tanks). COMPOSITION fragments of
clay-bricks or crushed shingle and cement.  Its
made with different layers, that are beaten and
wet many times. Its used from the Roman age as
waterproof covering of tubs or cisterns or
floors. The technical term is opus signinum
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The PARS RUSTICA

• South-eastern sector
• 1. In communication with the Atrium, the
  rectangular space without floor existing from
  ancient times, had a central shaft (2) identified
  as deposit provided with a wooden roof supported
  by three columns, the foundation of which
  remains.
• We can recognize a republican phase with opus
  incertum

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Here we find a large courtyard fenced and
heavily affected by modern works inside it many
fragments of dolia were found. (doliarium)

• 3. This other space, at a higher level, shows a
  complex with the wine press as a quadrangular
  place with floor in opus spicatum connected to
  another room (4) which presents at the center
• the torcular, provided with a draw covered with
  cocciopesto, wherein flowed the liquid, at first
  pressed in a little calcatorium ( covered with
  cocciopesto as well) before being collected into
  the tank.

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• Rectangular space 42 floored in opus spicatum,
  shows traces of a tub and the draw of water. At
  the north there is a large water tank, added
  during the I century. A.D. and realized in opus
  reticulaum.
• The floor covered with cocciopesto shows traces
  of re-using there are the bases of three
  internal pillars made of bricks and covered with
  plaster. From a corner of the floor, a hole
  conveyed the water to an external fountain made
  out of a big dolio during the late ancien age of
  the complex.
• The opposite corner, on the contrary, is affected
  by an acces opened at a later date and probably
  for a different use from the tank.

Fountain
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• Space 41 still preserves traces of the floor
  mosaic of the IV cent. A.D. with large white and
  black tiles with a meander motive and was created
  in the last phase of the life of complex
• Further east ,always during the late antiquity, a
  small space(8) whitout access was obtained, full
  of marble fragments belonging to architectural
  elements (maybe a deposit of limestone).

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