peristyles, the Greater and the Smaller Fountain (1826). The small
fountain itself made of shells, the greater one encrusted with mosaics.
In the former house a remarkable painting of a sea-port, supposed to
represent Dicæarchia, or Puteoli, was discovered. Two staircases
indicate the former existence of upper rooms. Here they found oil, in
vases, with olives still swimming in it.