House of the Wild Boar, Pompeii Home

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  Photos by William Storage and Laura Maish
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The house of the wild boar (VII,4,48) is a showy, "atrium-style" dwelling, where the entrance, atrium and tablinum are linearly aligned. Some of its fourth-style decorations are highly intact. It appears that redecoration of the home was completed just before the eruption of Vesuvius.

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