Hypogeum [underground room]

Name of structure: Hypogeum [underground room]
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Hypogeum
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Lazio
City or area within region: Sette Camini, near Rome
Date of structure: c. Hadrian
Century of structure 1: 2 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Dome and niches
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Plain white mosaic with green wreath around the oculus of the dome.  Big scroll pattern in range of greens in niches, dark grey, brown, dull green, vivid copper green and deep blue glass tesserae [rather coarse].
Date of mosaic: c. Hadrian
Century of mosaic 1: 2 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), 104
See also:
Ashby, British School at Rome, 3 (1906), 104-5
Cecchelli, C., ‘Origini del mosaico parietale cristiano’,in Architettura e Arti decorative, 2 (1923), 3-21, 49-56 [for the mosaics]
Hallam, Journal of Roman Studies 21 (1931), 276-82, fig 29

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