House
of theTrident and
of the Sword
Excavation:
The excavation of the zone E, by initiative of
Direcção Geral dos Monumentos Nacionais
cannot be exact in the time. It should have
been beginning after 1936, already
appearing represented in plans in 1962.
Available documentation:
Plan 1/50 (Virgílio H. Correia) of 1997.
Brief Description:
Residence partially dug, probably forming
substantial part of a insula. There were not
published reports of the works.
Bibliographical references:
Alarcão 1992, 52; Correia 1994,
329-330 and fig. 2.
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The construction as house of the trident and the sword
known is a group of three autonomous compartments integrated in a house
of larger dimensions. The main part of the house is incompletely excavated;
, for this reason its analysis is not easy. The entrance in the house was
double: a door provided of door latch open to West, giving access to a leading
to the corner of the central peristyle and, at the same threshold a small
lateral door entered in a room sub-divided by a partition, which then gave
access to the same fauces. From the peristyle, of lightly irregular
plans, there were other rooms, one paved with mosaic (but of this one only
a small area of about 50 cm2); there was another room of reasonable dimensions
to the East and maybe an oecus is known to the West. The remaining structure
of the house is hypothetical, although the limits of the construction are
reasonably safe, because they are defined by well-known road axes.
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