Nymphaeum
Name of structure: | Nymphaeum |
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Type of structure: | Nymphaeum |
Country or main area: | Italy |
Region within country or main area: | Campania |
City or area within region: | Casa dell’Ancora nera, VI-X-7, Pompeii |
Date of structure: | Late first century BC Later building stage second half of first century AD |
Century of structure 1: | 1 BCE |
Century of structure 2: | 1 AD |
Specific place of mosaic: | Walls, niches, apse |
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | A variety of materials: shells, marble chips, fragments of glass, glass discs, broken pieces of glass vessels. Egyptian blue. |
Date of mosaic: | Decoration dated to late first century BC |
Century of mosaic 1: | 1 BCE |
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Silver tessera at site: | No |
Gold tessera at site: | No |
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Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? | |
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Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), pp. 57-58 |
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