NAPLES - The skeleton of a horse and the house of Ceres, two important novelties are added to the offer of visits to the Archaeological Park of Pompeii.
From 14 June the Cerere house will open to the public at the end of the interventions that involved the restoration of the decorative elements, from the mosaic floors to the frescoes of the first style, the remaking of the roofs and the restoration of the garden with the cultivation of cereals, barley and soft wheat and other species inspired by the cults of Ceres.
The dwelling owes its name to the terracotta bust of the goddess Ceres, deity of the earth and fertility, tutelary deity of crops, found in one of the rooms open to the atrium, and probably part of the furnishings of a small place of domestic worship.
The domus was also the subject of a plan for the enhancement and improvement of the fruition path which provides for the artistic lighting of the decorative elements,
Along the same Via di Castricio, on which the house overlooks, in a room opposite, visitors will be able to return to admire the skeleton of an equid found in 1938 by Amedeo Maiuri, following the restoration and enhancement that allowed it. a new set-up, which will re-propose its exhibition in a scientifically more correct position, with a structure and with new materials, suitable for the microclimate and able to ensure the necessary conditions for the protection of the horse.
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