Nymphaeum

Name of structure: Nymphaeum
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Nymphaeum
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Lazio
City or area within region: Nero's Golden House, Rome
Date of structure: First century AD
Century of structure 1: 1 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Walls
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Frieze around walls, lunette, vault contains four mosaic medallions with larger mosaic octagon in centre.  Octagon depicts Odysseus offering wine to the Cyclops, mostly black, khaki, green glass tesserae.
Date of mosaic: 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), 90-92
See also:
Dio Cassio, Roman History, 64.4
Suetonius, Otho, 7
Zander, BollCentro/Bollettino del centro di studi per la storia dell’architettura, 12 (1958), 34-64
Sanguinetti, Palladio 7-8 (1957),126
Lavagne, J., MEFRA/Mélanges de l’École Française de Rome: Antiquité , 82 (1970), 673-722

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