Fountain, Casa della Fontana grande, Pompeii, VI-VIII-22

Name of structure: Fountain, Casa della Fontana grande, Pompeii, VI-VIII-22
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Fountain
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Campania
City or area within region: Pompeii
Date of structure: Middle of first century AD
Century of structure 1: 1 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: All over
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Shells, birds, head of Oceanos, patterns. 

Blue glass tesserae at the bottom of the drum.
Date of mosaic: Middle of 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: 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), pp. 73-74
See also:
Gell, Sir W., Pompeiana (London: 1832), 1, 195-98, pl. 53
Maiuri, A., Pompeii (Rome: 1958), pl. 32, 57
Mau, A., and F. W. Kelsey, Pompeii – Its Life and Art (New York: 1902), 345
Cecchelli, C., ‘Origini del mosaico parietale cristiano’,in Architettura e Arti decorative, 2 (1923), 3-21, 49-56, see p. 5
Neuerburg, Norman, L'architettura delle fontane e dei ninfei nell'Italia antic (Naples: G. Macchiaroli, 1965), 123-4, no. 25 
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