Nymphaeum, library court
Name of structure: | Nymphaeum, library court |
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Type of structure: | Nymphaeum |
Country or main area: | Italy |
Region within country or main area: | Campania |
City or area within region: | Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli |
Date of structure: | Original structure constructed first century BC but subsequently altered by Hadrian. |
Century of structure 1: | 1 BCE |
Century of structure 2: | 2 AD |
Specific place of mosaic: | Vault |
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Traces composed of cut tesserae in rows in the vault, which Sear dates to Hadrian |
Date of mosaic: | Hadrianic, second century AD |
Century of mosaic 1: | 2 AD |
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Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 109 |
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