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The 2010–2013 excavation works at Villa Arianna1 The Swiss engineer Karl Jacob Weber, subaltern director of the first exploration campaign (1757–1762) that brought to light the complex of Villa Arianna in Stabiae, informed his superior Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre of the discovery of a mosaic floor in the grounds of the then Masseria Girace, in the area between Gragnano and Castellammare, with a brief note dated 10 December 1757: “se ba descubriendo un pavim. de mosaico blanco con quadretos y rigas negras” (“a white mosaic floor with squares and black lines is being discovered”) [33, p. 68]. The area within which the fortunate discovery occurred is identified in the Weber plan by the number 34 (number 27 on the current map, Fig. 1). This is a large rectangular space of about 10,50×5,45 m, presumably an oecus or winter triclinium, which opened directly onto the square peristyle (91) located SE of the atrium (24). The excavation and restoration campaigns conducted at Villa Arianna by the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation in the years 2010–2013, specifically in the area of the bath complex and the square peristyle (91), also included room 27 [16, pp. 83–94; 17, pp. 213–214]. At the beginning of the investigation in 2010, room 27 had already been excavated to about 3⁄4 of its total extension, with the exception of the SE side, which was still covered by about 2,60 m of vegetal soil and volcanic material. Since this room had repeatedly been excavated and pillaged in the past — first during the 18thcen tury excavations, and subsequently in the late 1960s as part of a general revival of research in Stabia promoted by Libero d’Orsi2 — there is almost nothing left in situ of its walls and its decorative apparatus. The few surviving structures in gray tuff blocks of opus incertum, still present on the NW, NE and SW sides, were integrated into restored walls in the middle of the 20th cen-

Two Lesser-Known Mosaic Floors from the 18th-Century Excavations of Villa Arianna at Stabia