LÖFFELBACH
Steiermark, Austria.
About
3 km W of Hartberg, a complex of ca. 50 x 60 m was
uncovered in 1961-62. Its core is a rectangular villa
with separate baths, of the 1st-2d c. A.D. It was considerably enlarged, probably in the late 3d c., by the
addition of representative annexes, among others a
“basilica” (18 x 9 m). The entrances now lead through
great octagonal chambers with anterooms of horseshoe-shaped, square, or hexagonal plan. This very complicated ground plan recalls, on a smaller scale, that of
the villa at Piazza Armerina.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
W. Modrijan,
Der römische Landsitz
von Löffelbach (3d ed. 1971)
MPI.
R. NOLL