Fishbourne Roman Palace

[bunn]

Clearly the original residents did not call it that.   I'm guessing it doesn't have a documented original name, or at least I can't find one from hasty rummaging.

If you think it has a Latin name that I've missed, what's it called?   If you think it doesn't have a (known) Latin name, what might be a good name for someone in 197AD to use for it?

(The word Fishbourne sounds and looks Saxon. So It Will Not Do. It is Just Wrong. I know that Chichester is the rather magnificent Noviomagus Regnensium, but I need a separate name for the Palace.)

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[bunn.livejournal.com]

Following LoA's suggestion, I have tentatively settled on 'Domus Picta' to reference the painted walls: presumably those would have been a bit notable even when the place was first built and was a lot smaller and first needed a name...

At that point, perhaps people locally were less familiar with wallpaintings, but the name would still work at the end of the second century.

I wondered also about House of Fountains, as the gardens had some rather good ones apparently, which can't have been run of the mill in Britain.