Peristyle Court In The House Of The Dionysus
On Delos, (late second century B.C.). Such courts were the normal focus of the wellto-do houses in the Athenian colony of the second century B.C. One portico was often deeper, and sometimes taller, than the others, in order to protect and enhance the entrance to a large reception room (here at the rear). A well-head (here in the right foreground) covers the opening to the cistern which provided the Dehan house with its water-supply. (Boardman, 1986)