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excellent Guide has been published by the Messrs. Price, which has 
reached a second edition, and contains not only a plan of the Villa 
but an engraving of one of the pavements and drawings of other 
remains found in the course of excavation. Excellent photographs 
are also to be procured on the spot. The subjects depicted on 
the different compartments are for the most part new, and are 
mythological. It is to be regretted that more Photographic details 
could not have been given in the Guide, but it is understood that 
they are being drawn and engraved, and will eventually be 
published with particular descriptions, as has been dene in the 
case of Lyson’s Woodchester. 
The form of the Villa is that common to all large Roman 
residences, viz., three sides of a square and small chambers 
attached to the principal rooms. One of the rooms containing 
pavements is divided into two portions, each of which contains 
a beautiful design with distinct subjects represented. 
The first pavement, accidentally come upon in tilling the land, 
represents a very unusual figure in one of the compartments or 
panels—a man with the head and legs of a cock, standing near 
a small house, which is reached by a ladder or a flight of steps ; 
on the right of this are two griffins moving in opposite directions. 
Another panel contains representations of two Gladiators, one of 
whom (the Retiarius) carries the trident, and appears to have 
cast his net over the head of his adversary, but this figure is 
almost destroyed. In the centre of this pavement is the head 
of a Baccante with a staff. Many fragments of wall-plaster with 
fresco painting on it, as well as Samian ware and other pottery, 
were found on the floor of this chamber. 
A corridor, extending about 50ft. in length, connects this 
chamber with another, and this corridor has in the centre of it a 
mosaic pavement with the figure of Orpheus with his lyre, 
seated and charming the animals with his music. These consist 
of a monkey with a red cap on his head, a fox, a peacock, and a 
coote. The monkey makes his first appearance in this pavement, 
