Fountain, Casa di Loreio Tiburtino, II-V-2

Name of structure: Fountain, Casa di Loreio Tiburtino, II-V-2
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: Second half first century AD
Century of structure 1: 1 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Curved wall of niche
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Strips of dark blue tesserae, red flowers on green ground, five white fish against a ground of dark blue tesserae.
Date of mosaic: Second half 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), 93
See also:
Della Corte, M., Pompei – I nuovi scavi e l’Anfiteatro (Pompeii: 1930), 64-66, fig. 28
Spinazzola, Pompei alla luce degli scavi nuovi in via dell’Abbondanza 1 (1953), 404
Maiuri, A., Pompei (Rome: Itinerari dei Musei e Monumenti d’Italia, no. 32, 1958), 80
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), 118-9, no. 19
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