(Insula 5, no. 9)  The house is built around an atrium which leads directly to a series of living rooms that overlook a central peristyle. All the rooms were decorated with very simple frescoes and executed in a single phase. The exception is the room decorated with a Nilotic landscape of remarkable quality and datable to the second half of the first century AD, from which the house takes its name. In the scene are represented the pygmies along the banks of the great river that, in the collective imagination, was at the same time the border of the exotic Egyptian world and the gateway to more distant territories. From the river populated by ducks and lotus plants, islets and strips of land connected by wooden piers emerge, a dark pygmy with a large phallus, carries two large baskets, near a small temple and on a pillar the statue of Sobek, the crocodile god .

Excavation date: 1877