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===Enlargement=== Around 150 AD the villa was expanded and a heated bath block with [[hypocaust]] was added, but it was later rebuilt around 290 AD after being abandoned for almost a century.'''<ref name=":65">{{Cite journal|last=Painter|first=K. S.|date=1969|title=The Lullingstone Wall-Plaster: An Aspect of Christianity in Roman Britain|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4423032|journal=[[British Museum Quarterly|The British Museum Quarterly]]|volume=33|issue=3/4 |pages=131β150|doi=10.2307/4423032 |jstor=4423032 }}</ref>''' Two marble busts from the 2nd century found in the cellar perhaps depict the owners or residents of the villa, which may have been the designated country retreat of the provincial governors. There is some evidence that the busts are those of [[Pertinax]], governor of Britannia in 185β186 (and later Roman emperor in 193), and his father.<ref>[https://archive.today/20070308194055/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-2292526.html Times article, 30 July 2006]</ref> In the 3rd century, a larger furnace for the hypocaust as well as an expanded bath block were added, as were a temple-mausoleum and a large [[granary]]. In the 4th century, the dining room was equipped with a fine [[mosaic]] floor with one illustration of [[Zeus]] or [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]], disguised as a bull, abducting [[Europa (mythology)|Europa]] and a second depicting [[Bellerophon]] killing the [[Chimera (creature)|Chimera]].<ref>[http://www.asprom.org/resources/Lullingstone/LullingstoneHenig.html Article on the Lullingstone mosaics]</ref> [[File:2008-08-25-01 GreatBritain Lullingstone.jpg|thumb|right|Model of the Roman Villa]]
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