Alleyway

Long and narrow, paved with irregularly shaped stone tiles, it originally separated the wealthy domus of the second century on the right from the building for common people of the third century located on the left.
The alley was included in the reorganisation of the complex in the third-century stage. It became an interior connecting element between the two zones of a unified larger elongated domus with a courtyard with an open ceiling. This nymphaeum courtyard is visible in the next few spaces.
Walking down the lane, on the left one reaches the high staircase where, according to tradition, the bodies of the martyrs John and Paul were buried, and where excavations begun in the early twentieth century revealed three graves.

Case Romane (Roman Houses), Rome, Italy.