Panel, boxer
Name of structure: | Panel, boxer |
Extended name of structure: | |
Type of structure: | Panel |
Country or main area: | Italy |
Region within country or main area: | Campania |
City or area within region: | Herculaneum/Naples |
Date of structure: | Third quarter first century AD |
Century of structure 1: | 1 AD |
Century of structure 2: | |
Specific place of mosaic: | Originally part of small fountain niche (see separate entry #532) |
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Boxer wearing loaded boxing gloves standing on plinth. Below a fighting cock, pine cone and head of garlic. Heavily restored. |
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), 87 |
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Comments: | Now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Archaeological Museum), Naples |