Grotto
Name of structure: | Grotto |
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Type of structure: | Grotto |
Country or main area: | Italy |
Region within country or main area: | Capri |
City or area within region: | Grotta di Matromania |
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Specific place of mosaic: | Apsidal wall |
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Patterns of shells, pumice and marine incrustations alternating with bands and panels of polychrome glass. Fragments of vessels and Egyptian blue. A few red glass tesserae. |
Date of mosaic: | Late Augustan or Tiberian |
Century of mosaic 1: | 1 AD |
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Silver tessera at site: | No |
Gold tessera at site: | No |
Colour tessera at site: | Yes |
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), p. 62 |
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