Underwater park in Baia, under restoration on the seabed the geometric marble floor of a Roman villa

The latest restoration work still underway in the Baia Underwater Archaeological Park involves a marble floor made up of side-by-side squares, each with inscribed circles. Made with theopus sectile technique, it was the floor of the reception room of a Roman villa with a prothyrum entrance. Over 250 square meters made toward the end of the Roman Empire, just before the bradyseism of the Phlegraean Fields brought the remains to the bottom of the sea.

To make the floor, the owner of the Villa used second-hand marble, or salvaged material, as it was a very expensive work due to the chosen design of complex geometry.

The restoration currently underway is being conducted by CSR Restoration Cultural Heritage and Naumacos Underwater Archaeology and Technology. “A new, very complicated challenge,” they let the park know, “because of the extreme fragmentary nature of the remains and their great extent.”

Photo by Edoardo Ruspantini

Underwater park in Baia, under restoration on the seabed the geometric marble floor of a Roman villa

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