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Name of structure: Unknown
Extended name of structure: Edificio fuori Porta Marina
Type of structure: House
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Lazio
City or area within region: outside Porta Marina, Ostia
Date of structure: 4C
Century of structure 1: 4 AD
Century of structure 2: 4 AD
Specific place of mosaic: Bipedales hanging from ceiling of exedra.
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic:

Blue, grey, gold foil.

Date of mosaic: 4C
Century of mosaic 1: 4 AD
Century of mosaic 2: 4 AD
Silver tessera at site: No
Gold tessera at site: Yes
Colour tessera at site: Yes
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)?

Unknown

Has analysis been done? Yes
Samples taken from where?

Ceiling (Verità, 2008)

Excavation and restoration campaigns: 1957
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Coates-Stephens, R., 'Notes from Rome', Papers of the British School in Rome 76 (2008), 305.


Verità, M., Stella Arena, M., Carruba, A. M & Santopadre, P., 'Roman glass: Art and technology in a 4th century A.D. opus sectile in Ostia (Rome)', Journal of Cultural Heritage 9 (2008), suppl., e16-e20 (online publ.).


Verità, M., Stella Arena, M., Carruba, A. M & Santopadre, P., 'Materiali vitrei nell’opus sectile di Porta Marina (Ostia)', Bollettino ICR Nuova Serie n.16-17 (2008), 78-94.


Sear, F. B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts. Roemische Abteiliung 23) (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 134


Becatti, G., Scavi di Ostia 6 (1969), 104-12.

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