Nymphaeum, Parco di Traiano

Name of structure: Nymphaeum, Parco di Traiano
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Type of structure: Nymphaeum
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Lazio
City or area within region: under the Baths of Trajan, Rome
Date of structure: First century AD
Century of structure 1: 1 AD
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Specific place of mosaic: wall above three niches, parapets, upper part of arches
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Covered with mosaic, now heavily encrusted in deposits of limestone
Date of mosaic: First century AD
Century of mosaic 1: 1 AD
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Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 100-101
See also:
Muñoz, A, Il parco di Traiano e la sistemazione delle Terme imperali (1936), 13
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), 202-3, no. 146

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