Nymphaeum

Name of structure: Nymphaeum
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Nymphaeum
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Latina, Lazio
City or area within region: Villa of Cicero, Formia
Date of structure:
Century of structure 1: 1 BCE
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Walls,barrel vaulted rooms, apse
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Skillfully decorated with shells (including whelk, oyster, cockle, mussel) and squared white stone tesserae.  Inside 17 coffered panels in barrel vault are circles, half-circles and lozenges in shells and Egyptian blue.
Date of mosaic:
Century of mosaic 1: 1 BCE
Century of mosaic 2:
Silver tessera at site: No
Gold tessera at site: No
Colour tessera at site: No
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)?
Has analysis been done?
Samples taken from where?
Excavation and restoration campaigns:
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 46-47
See also:
Lugli, G., ‘Nymphae sive musaea,’ in Atti del IV Congresso Naz. Di Studi Romani, 1 (1938), 164, fig 3, pl. 6,4
Crema, L., L’architettura romana, Enciclopedia Classica, Sezione III, Archeologia e storia dell’arte classica, vol 12, Archeologia (Turin: Arte romana Tomo1), 1959), 125, fig 114
Neuerburg, N., ‘L’architettura delle fontane e dei ninfei nell’Italia antica,’ in Memorie dell’Accademia di Archeologica Lettere e Belle Arti di Napoli, V (Naples: G. Macchiaroli, 1965), 146, no. 58
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Comments: Site is underneath the modern Villa Rubino

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