Nymphaeum
Name of structure: | Nymphaeum |
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Type of structure: | Nymphaeum |
Country or main area: | Italy |
Region within country or main area: | Lazio |
City or area within region: | Casino Fede, Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli |
Date of structure: | Late first century BC/early first century AD |
Century of structure 1: | 1 BCE |
Century of structure 2: | 1 AD |
Specific place of mosaic: | Cistern whose facade is decorated as a nymphaeum. 3 niches, traces of mosaic in the two smaller side ones. |
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Glass mosaic. If dating is correct then this is a very early example of the use of glass tesserae. |
Date of mosaic: | Late first century BC/early first century AD |
Century of mosaic 1: | 1 BCE |
Century of mosaic 2: | 1 AD |
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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), p. 63 |
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