Nuove riflessioni sulla domus di Apuleio a Ostia

Among the inscriptions that mention Apulei, the only one pertinent to the Apulei Marcelli, in addition to the Ostian fistulae, have been found near the Adriatic. L. Apuleius Marcellus may have come from an Adriatic port that traded with Ostia. The building technique of some of the rooms in the domus of Apuleius and of the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres and the style of mithraeum's mosaics suggest that the mithraeum was not built until the Late Empire. Finally, a charioteer depicted in a mosaic with inscription in one room of the domus may be Musclosus, an agitator married to one Apuleia Verecunda, mentioned in a funerary inscription from Rome.