Conimbriga - Ruínas, Museu monográfico

	House of the Swastika Excavation: Direcção Geral dos Monumentos Nacionais between 1940 and 1944 (Dir. Prof. V. Correia). Other interventions under the direction of Prof. Jorge Alarcão in 1963. Available documentation: Plan of works of 1967 (all the zone B) scale 1/200 (aut. Roque Martins). Complements and annotations, without date, of J. Alarcão. Brief Description: Building of residential characteristics, that occupies the central part of a insula (that includes also the house of the Skeletons). Bibliography of the excavation: The excavation reports were not published. Bibliographical references: Alarcão 1986, 103; id. 1992, 12 and 17; Alarcão et al. 1981, 73-74 e est. 6 and 20; Beeson 1993, 6; Ferrão 1996, 203-204; Oleiro 1986, 117; id. 1994a, 45; Oleiro et al. 1974, 27-28.

	The house of the swastika is one of the prestige residences in Conimbriga, but perhaps that in that, the base of the program, is a poor architecture strongly conditioned by the pre-existence of a not very generous lot of ground, producing a final result where some architectonic awkwardness can be found. The house occupied the ground plan, but had, in the façade, an autonomous zone in the upper floor, that had access directly from the street. The peristyle had access by two ways, the fauces that opened to the street to, the West, and the small corridor to the North, linked to the open space left between the house and the stores to South of the road, that should have an independent access from the same street. The main room opening for the peristyle was the triclinium, placed transversely, with a set of three doors trying to create perspectives aligned with the intercolumniations of the portico, but with unequal results. Besides this, a great cubicle opened to the Southeast corner of the peristyle, of which the whole South side was taken by two compartments, of spaces left by the central construction, incorporated in to it. One of these has mosaics (but it is not clear if it was an open or close space), the function of the other is unknown. The West wing of the peristyle had a small space that was perhaps a kitchen and a group of private compartments, in the total of five, three of them, being visible, also decorated with mosaics (the other two were destroyed by the wall).