The House of the Prince of Naples has an irregular plan created by joining two smaller dwellings that were originally independent.
The atrium area preserves much of the decoration applied during the city’s final phase. Beside the impluvium stood an elegant marble table supported by sculpted winged lions.
The rear part of the house was arranged around a portico and central garden, where the rooms principally used for banquets and entertaining were located. The exedra was especially richly decorated, with life-size figures of Bacchus and Venus painted on its walls. In the adjoining triclinium, the central section of the floor contained a refined inlay of coloured marbles.
An aedicula used for household worship also survives on the garden’s rear wall.
The house was systematically excavated in 1896–1897 and is particularly important today for the relatively coherent preservation of decoration from Pompeii’s final phase.
