Columns, Casa delle Colonne a mosaico

Name of structure: Columns, Casa delle Colonne a mosaico
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: column
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Campania
City or area within region: Via dei Sepolcri, Pompeii
Date of structure: Third quarter first century AD
Century of structure 1: 1 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Four columns entirely covered in mosaic. Two types with different designs
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Many colours of tesserae. Patterns, flowers, egg and dart.  First type has frieze with heraldic animals, very damaged figurative scene, second type has figured scene with children and animals
Date of mosaic: Third quarter 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), 83
See also:
Spano, G., NSc. (1910), 253-55,
Briggs,R.A., Pompeian Decorations (London: B. T. Batsford, 1911) under A. Speltz, The Coloured Ornament of all Historical Styles, Part 1: Antiquity (1915),  
Maiuri, A., Pompei (Rome: Itinerari dei Musei e Monumenti d’Italia, no. 32, 1958), 90
Neuerburg, N., ‘L’architettura delle fontane e dei ninfei nell’Italia antica,’ in Memorie dell’Accademia di Archeologica Lettere e Belle Arti di Napoli, V (Naples: G. Macchiaroli, 1965), 134


 
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Comments: Now in National Museum, Naples.  Originally stood in front of fountain (see separate entry)

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