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The painted decoration was especially lavish. Small panels of Castor and Pollux—the Dioscuri—near the entrance gave the house its modern name. The originals, together with many of the most important paintings from the domus, are now in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples; copies have been installed in situ. 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