Bas-Relief
The walls, doors and ninfeu (nymphaeum) of the triclinium, were covered with Estremoz/Vila Viçosa marble slabs, displaying bas-reliefs, which can be seen in situ, or in many slabs and frames recovered during the excavation work. It has been possible to distinguish over a dozen bas-relief panels by means of their motifs and frames. They would have decorated the orthostatae above the skirting panels, separated by vertical bands of candelabra. Apart from the geometric patterns, plant and architectural representations can be found there.
A cornice with acanthus leaf consoles and a panel with a flower in the middle would have "hung from" the ceiling over the walls, connecting the doors and the vault of the ninfeu apse.
On either side of this triclinium, the passages to the two contiguous apses, service chambers or part of the lighting system for this room were also faces with marble. But floor of mortar and compacted earth inside, and the walling in of these doors after the initial design was implemented explain its unfinished state.
This same thing did not happen to the apsed room in the end. It is a nymphaeum, open to the triclinium, where the circular inner wall is faced with marble. At a level slightly higher than that of the floor of the triclinium we find a basin in the shape of an isosceles triangle, decorated in the middle with five channels of opus signinum, which converge at the end of the apse, in the vertex of the triangle. This nymphaeum may have been the source or basis for a greenhouse. It could have been decorated with flowers, a fountain and statues, culminating in a real, three-dimensional scenario, a grand and charming walk (PESSOA, 1998, p. 43).
