Serapeum

Name of structure: Serapeum
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Temple
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Lazio
City or area within region: Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli
Date of structure: First half second century AD
Century of structure 1: 2 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Dome, barrel vaults, arches, niches
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: A variety of decorations in various colours.  Sear found glass tesserae in blue, ochre, yellow, black, red, yellow/green, blue/green and turquoise around the pool.
Date of mosaic: First half second century AD
Century of mosaic 1: 2 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
Silver tessera at site: No
Gold tessera at site: No
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), 111-12
See also:
Gusman, P., La Villa Impériale de Tibur (Paris: 1904), 153
Winnefeld, H., Die Villa des Hadrian bei Tivoli (Berlin: 1895), 26
Lanciani, R., Guida della Villa Adriana (1906), 26
Paribeni, R, ‘La Villa dell’imperatore Adriano a Tivoli’, in Il Fiore dei Musei e Monumenti d’Italia, 10 (c. 1928), pl. 18
Cecchelli, C., ‘Origini del mosaico parietale cristiano’,in Architettura e Arti decorative, 2 (1923), 3-21, 49-56, no. 19
Brusin, NSc/Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1929), 133 and n. 6
Wirth, RM (1928), 142-3

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