Bathhouse

Name of structure: Bathhouse
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Bathhouse
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Lucca, Tuscany
City or area within region: Massaciuccoli
Date of structure: First half of first century AD.  Later modified around 100AD
Century of structure 1: 1 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Walls or vault
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Large numbers of glass tesserae mixed with the stone tesserae of the floor.  Glass tesserae also found in small room opening off plunge of the frigidarium.
Date of mosaic: First century AD
Century of mosaic 1: 1 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
Silver tessera at site:
Gold tessera at site:
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), 99-100
See also:
Ridolfi,  NSc/ Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, (1878), 227-30
Pellegrini, NSc/ Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1901), 194-200
Minto, MonAnt/Monumenti, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 27 (1921), 405-47
Blake, M. E., Roman Construction in Italy from Tiberius through the Flavians (Washington DC: 1959), 148

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