Nymphaeum

Name of structure: Nymphaeum
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Nymphaeum
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Campania
City or area within region: Casa del Torello, V-I-7, Pompeii
Date of structure: First century AD
Century of structure 1: 1 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Three panels, approx. 113-93cm, on pedestals of aedicules containing water spouts.
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic:

Patterns of marble, pumice, shells and plaster containing Egyptian blue tesserae, pieces of coloured glass (blue, turquoise, red) and twisted glass rods (purple, turquoise, white, yellow and dark blue). 

Date of mosaic: First century AD
Century of mosaic 1: 1 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
Silver tessera at site: No
Gold tessera at site: No
Colour tessera at site:
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), pp. 60-61
See also:
Spano, G., NSc. (1910), 255
Ellaby, C. G., Pompeii and Herculaneum (Methuen: 1930), 172
Maiuri, Amedeo, L’ultima fase edilizia di Pompeii (Rome: Instituto di studi Romani, 1942),45
Neuerburg, N., L’architettura delle fontane e dei ninfei nell’Italia antica (Naples: Memorie dell’Accademia di Archeologia Lettere e Belle Arti di Napoli, V, 1965), 121-22, no. 23.

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