Category:Casa di Orione

Casa di Orione (Pompeii V.2) 

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Instance of	archaeological site domus
Part of	Pompeii Regio V Insula 2
Location	Pompeii, Pompei, Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy
40° 45′ 08.69″ N, 14° 29′ 13.41″ E
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The Casa di Orione (House of Orion), discovered in the 19th century excavations of Pompeii, was rediscovered during restoration work in 2018 under the auspices of the EU-funded Pompeii Project. The house takes its name from a mosaic in the left wing depicting the transformation of the hunter Orion into a celestial constellation by the will of Zeus. Another mosaic in one of the cubiculums also depicts Orion as a hunter aided by a butterfly. Unlike many houses in Pompeii, the House of Orion is decorated in the First Style with wall surfaces painted to look like colored stone blocks.