Conimbriga - Ruínas, Museu monográfico

	House of Valerius Daphinus Excavation: 1929-1930. Cleanings in 1966. Available documentation: General plan of the " Terreno da Faculdade de Letras " (1/200) and detail of the atrium (1/50) by G. Wolf ( Luso-French team, 1966). Reinterpretation by Virgílio H. Correia in 1996 (general plan 1/100). Undergoing excavations (J. Ruivo) since 2001. Brief Description: Part of the insula immediately to West of the Forum (" Terreno da Faculdade de Letras ") that is possibly to identifiable as an isolated residence (with extensions to North? ). Bibliography of the excavation: Correia 1936, 8-9. Oleiro et al. 1966. Other bibliographical references not known.

	The North part of the insula that was in great part occupied by the house of the Apsidal medianum became autonomous (even from the point of view of the construction technique), as a house which the epigraphy tells us of one of its proprietors, Valerius Daphinus, wealthy person probably freed man, devote of Liber Pater. The house is of modest dimensions, although it is not completely dug, being the main part composed by a vast atrium, to which one enters by a passage placed in the Southeast corner. For this atrium two small compartments opened. The date of the excavations (1938) and the bad state of conservation of the structures doesn't allow to a clear understanding of the arrangements and the enlargement produced in this atrium in later dates, being unclear which was the sense of the modification of the own columns: if originally in stone they were substituted by columns in brick, or vice-versa. To the North of this atrium there was a group of three compartments placed in a row, the central being provided of a tank. The house still extended Northlands, but this zone is insufficiently excavated.