Grotto

Name of structure: Grotto
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Grotto
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Capri
City or area within region: Grotta dell’Arsenale
Date of structure:
Century of structure 1:
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Vault of the grotto
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Originally richly decorated with mosaic.  Immense numbers of glass tesserae found during excavation and restoration in 1931.
Date of mosaic: Tiberian
Century of mosaic 1: 1 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
Silver tessera at site:
Gold tessera at site:
Colour tessera at site: Yes
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), p. 62
See also:
Maiuri, Amedeo, Bd’A, 25 (1931), 156-60, figs 6-7
Mingazzini, P., and E Pfister, Forma Italiae Reg. I, vol. 2 Surrentum (Florence: 1946), 44
Mingazzini, P., ArchCl, 7 (1955), 150-56. Figs 3,4, pls. 62-65
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), 116, no. 16
URLs:
Comments:

Previous Next