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Modern Description: House C: Luxurious late antique villa with important sculpture on the lower N slope of the Areopagus, possibly linked to Damascius, 'last of the Neoplatonist philosophers' (6th century AD).
[Judith Binder: Late Roman Mansion: (House C or Omega House), ca. 350-400 to 582 A.D., Areopagus northeast slope at the site of the Areopagus North Slope Spring House (no. U293 below): Shear Jr., T. L. 1973a, 156-164, figs. 5-6, pls. 31 :a, 34, 35:c 37-38; Agora_Guide 1990 156-159, figs. 99 -103, Actual State Plan no. 58; Agora_XXIV, 87-90 and General Index I under Houses, pls. 4, 6, 21 :a, 27:a, 32-36:a, 37:b, 38:a-c, 39:b+e, 40-43; Athanassiadi, P. 1999, 342-347, pls. I-VI
First owners, collectors of sculpture (e.g. Athena Ath40) ranging from the 4th c. B.C. to the 3rd c. A.D.: T. L. Shear, Jr., op. cit., 161-162; probably the private school of a philosopher or sophist, Camp, J. McK. 1989, “The Philosophical Schools of Roman Athens,” in BM Classical Colloquium 1989, 50-55, pls. 8-12; [pace J. Camp, mansions all over the Roman Empire containing sculpture and mosaics and other artifacts with “pagan” iconography can't all have been the homes of philosophers and sophists]
From the early 6th c. A.D. on owned by Christians who defaced sculpture: T. L. Shear, Jr., op. cit., 163; [perhaps the residence of the Bishop of Athens]
Baptistery installed in the southeast corner: Agora_XXIV, 88-90 ]
Trismegistos Geo: 364

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