The Suburban Thermae were built after the request of Nonius Balbus, owner of the luxurious Telephus Relief house. The wall decorations were remade after the 62AD earthquake. On the right there was a small two – roomed tavern, whose walls were decorated with different paintings, one of which curiously depicting a prostitute in Pozzuoli. The vestibule is enriched by a marble herma of Apollon, in front of which there is a basin – shaped marble fountain. From the vestibule you can access a wide hall with big windows once opening on to the seashore. From the door in front of the entrance you can enter the frigidarium, paved with white marble.

The civic basilica, built during the Augustan period, had a rectangular plan and opened up on to the Decumanus Maximus with a large central doorway. The interior had two orders of stuccoed semi columns; few of the capitals can still be seen. Against the walls you could once see the statues of the Balbus’ family members.

This house, built during the Augustan period, was probably already damaged by the 62AD earthquake. The atrium, adorned with a fountain, leads to the Thermae, the only covered part of the building. To the left of the atrium there are living and service rooms and a latrine; from this area  a ramp leads to the lower section of the building, where there are some rooms paved with mosaics. On the seaside there is a big banquet hall with a round set of pilasters.

One of the richest buildings in Ercolano, this house is known for the large decorated atrium. It has a marble basin in the centre and is decorated with black and white mosaics. At the back of the atrium there is a basilica- like hall, divided into three isles by two lines of three rectangular pillars. The floor is made of marble slabs while the wall decorations have animal and vegetable motifs on a white background. The big garden, enriched with a rectangular marble fountain basin, is surrounded by a windowed portico.

The small atrium is furnished with a gallery and a service quarter on the upper level. From the atrium a long corridor leads on the right to the kitchen, while on the left you enter a portico paved in white mosaic, decorated with a black band and marble flakes. The walls are frescoed with drawings of Cupids playing with the weapons of Mars and Hercules and seascape motifs. From the garden you can achieve a large hall, paved with marble and decorated with wall frescoes on a black background. On the sea side of the House of the Stags there is another large hall with fragments of marble pavements and windows opening on to the garden.

Named after the illegitimate son of Hercules, this is one of the most finely decorated houses in Ercolano. Rising next to the suburban Thermae, this house was probably owned by the roman senator Nonius Balbus. The atrium is decorated on three sides with stuccoed columns painted in red. Between the columns hang small marble masks while the cast of the Neoattic marble relief with scenes of Telephus’ myth hangs from the wall. On the left there is Achilles consulting an oracle, which reveals that in order to conquer Troy he has to heal the wound of the hero Telephus. The scene of the healing is at the side. At the end of the atrium there is the tablinum. The garden is flanked by three rooms paved with mosaics and a corridor leading to other rooms, in which the relief of Telephus was found.