IOHANNES ET PAULUS, DOMUS
* the house in which S. John and S. Paul (not
the Apostles, but two officers who suffered martyrdom under Julian)
were murdered, situated on the Caelian just south-west of the porticus
Claudia, in the present Via di SS. Giovanni e Paolo (perhaps the
CLIVUS
SCAURI, q.v.), under the church of that name. The excavations show
a private dwelling of the second century, enlarged and rebuilt in the
third and fourth, in which, probably in the second half of the third
century, a titulus was instituted (titulus Byzantis), while Pammachius
founded the basilica at the end of the fourth century. The enlargement
consisted for the most part in connecting two houses that had been
separated by a narrow street. Upwards of thirty rooms have been
opened up, among them a cavaedium, with five rows of three rooms
each on the south side, bathrooms, storerooms and stairways. The
discovery of an interesting Pagan painting with a marine scene in
1909 may be noticed. The house had three stories, traces of which are
visible, and an arcade in front, with two rows of windows above. The
facade resembles that of the houses of Ostia (
NS 1887, 532;
1890,
79, 150-151;
1891, 161-162;
BC 1887, 151-152, 321-322;
1892, 65;
909, 122-123;
Mitt. 1889, 261-262;
1891, 107-108;
1892, 297;
AJA
1890, 261-285, pl. xvi., xvii.;
1891, 25-37, pl. iv.-vi.; Rom.
Quartalschr.
1888, 137-147, 321-326, 404-405 ; Germano, La Casa Celimontana dei
SS. martiri Giovanni e Paolo, Roma 1894; Grisar, Geschichte
Roms
i. 42-45; HJ232; LR350; DAP 2. x(i). 205-208; Wilpert, Mosaiken
und Malereien, ii. 631-652;
RAP ii. 29-31; HCh 277, 592; ZA
149-158; Kirsch, Rom. Titelkirchen 26-33).
