Conimbriga - Ruínas, Museu monográfico

	House of the Skeletons Excavation: Direcção Geral dos Monumentos Nacionais between 1940 and 1944 (Dir. Prof. V. Correia). Other interventions under the direction of the Prof. Jorge Alarcão in 1963. Available documentation: Plan of work of 1967 (the whole zone B), to the scale 1/200 (aut. Roque Martins). Complements and annotations, without date of J. Alarcão. Brief Description: Residential building that occupies the central part of an insula (that also includes the House of the Cruz Swastika). Bibliography of the excavation: There are no published reports. Bibliographical references: Alarcão 1992, 8 e 17; Alarcão et al. 1981, 74 and est. 7 and 21; Beeson 1993, 6-7; Ferrão 1996, 203-4; Oleiro 1986, 117; Oleiro et al. 1974, 27. http://www.casadosesqueletos.web.pt

	In its reduced dimensions (945 m2) the House of the skeletons can be taken as a paradigm of the residences of quality of Conimbriga: quality of the architectural plan, economy of means, emphasis in the ornamental program of the mosaics, intelligent use of the autonomous part of the construction. The analysis of the house comes across, though, with some inherent difficulties because the façade was destroyed by the construction of the late-imperial wall. The main part of the house is articulated by an axis of canonical drawing (guided E / W), of the small atrium to the great triclinium going by the axis of symmetry of the central peristyle. The peristyle gives access to six service dependences, to the North, besides which an open space would exist, as a deadlock, that would probably belonged to the house (although with independent access for the street, effectively working as service entrance). A small corridor in the Southeast corner gave access to a great cubicle, with mosaics, and to a secondary entrance; besides this there just one other a small division near the entrance. A substantial part of the area of the building was occupied by autonomous units three of them probable cauponae or popinae opened for the lane that divided the house from the Baths of the Wall, serving as access to the services of these, and another one more complex, of three divisions in row.