The mosaic showing an unswept floor (asarotos oikos) is a rare Roman copy – one of the earliest – of a creation attributed by Pliny the Elder (Naturalis Historia XXXVI, 184) to the renowned mosaic artist Sosus, who lived in the 2nd century BC in the court of the king of Pergamon. Whole fish and fish-bones, eggs, vine leaves, olives, apples, pears, cherries, figs, grapes, almonds and chestnuts are shown scattered over the floor – the remains of a lavish banquet that would remind who ever walked over it of the house holder’s wealth.