This small house stands opposite the well-known House of Menander in Vicolo Meridionale, which can be reached directly from Via Stabiana by taking the side street almost opposite the Temple of Jupiter Meilichios.
The name was given to the house by the archaeologists who chose it from one of the nine election slogans painted on the front wall. The rooms are decorated with original third style paintings: in the winter Triclinium, to the right of the four-columned Atrium with its fountain in the impluvium, we see a young Bacchus offering wine to a tiger; while in the next room, adjacent to the garden, there are paintings of busts of Satyrs and maenads.
The decorations on the three walls of the garden are particularly striking. They depict landscapes with pseudo-Egyptian motifs and scenes of wild beasts hunting: wolves chasing wild boars, a tiger chasing two rams and a lion pursuing a bull. There is also a Nile landscape depicting pygmies struggling with a hippopotamus and a crocodile.
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