Nymphaeum
Name of structure: | Nymphaeum |
Extended name of structure: | |
Type of structure: | Nymphaeum |
Country or main area: | Italy |
Region within country or main area: | Lazio |
City or area within region: | Grotta di Paris, San Vittorino, near Tivoli |
Date of structure: | Late first century BC |
Century of structure 1: | 1 BCE |
Century of structure 2: | |
Specific place of mosaic: | Apse, walls, lunette |
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Shells and pumice.in patterns. Sear notes that stone tesserae and lumps of glass were recorded by Neuerburg, but he couldn't find them. |
Date of mosaic: | Late first century BC |
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? | |
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Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 58-60 |
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