Resumen de Rileggendo le domus delle Colonne e dei Pesci
The paper contains a re-examination of two rich houses of Late Roman Ostia, the domus of the Columns and of the Fishes (phases of late second and third century). Under the latter there was a Flavian building, that is at present known only from a wall, put in light during an excavation of 1995-96. In the age of Commodus it seems that, where now there is the Domus of the Columns, there was a bulding with a commercial function, or perhaps an office. The hypothesis is that in the first halfth of the third century a new owner bought the soils and built, or transformed, the two structures, now united by a wall ; the new buildings had a residential functions. The plan of the Domus of the Fishes shows innovating features in comparison to other luxury houses of the same period, and perhaps were foreseen different courses for the dominus, the clientes and the slaves.
