Description: Ostia, House of the Painted Ceiling. (A building on the via della Fontana). Excavations in the second room to the north of
that already excavated, which had notable frescoes (NSc. 1908 p. 21ff) and which forms part of the same apartment. This room
is also painted - decorated with goats, fish, and white mosaic pavement. Among the remains were also found: a gold ring, three
denarii (one of which was Hadrianic), bronze objects (fibulae, money, etc), an iron key. Three tokens in total were found
here. The paintings in room 2 are thought to date from the reigns of Antoninus Pius or Commodus. The house itself dates from
the reign of Hadrian, giving a terminus post quem of AD 117, and suggesting tokens of this type date to the second century
AD.
