The discovery of fragmentary wall paintings inside the villa of Salone allows to formulate hypotheses both regarding the ownership of the villa itself (to be linked to the Scevola family) and regarding the function performed by the pictorial repertoire of the late Republican age. This paper examines the content of various recognizable decorative patterns, starting with the identification of a first style pictorial system, and then analyzing more in detail the patterns or motifs attributable to the second style, of which some reconstructive hypotheses are proposed for the first time. The picture that emerges indicates the high level of wall paintings, and, as regards the evidence of the second style, the particular role assumed by the paintings with instrumenta scriptoria
(with the related textual contents) in terms of communication and self
-representation of the owners of the villa and of their world of values.
Keywords: Wall painting, first style, second style, frieze,
instrumenta scriptoria
Parole chiave: Pittura parietale, primo stile, secondo stile, fregio,
instrumenta scriptoria
