Baths, Terme del Faro, IV-II-1
Name of structure: | Baths, Terme del Faro, IV-II-1 |
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Type of structure: | Baths |
Country or main area: | Italy |
Region within country or main area: | Lazio |
City or area within region: | Ostia |
Date of structure: | Second century AD |
Century of structure 1: | 2 AD |
Century of structure 2: | |
Specific place of mosaic: | Walls of the big plunge of the frigidarium |
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | White stone tesserae and traces of maroon, yellow and blue glass tesserae later covered over in marble. |
Date of mosaic: | Decoration renewed in third century AD but Sear dates mosaics to building period in 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)? | |
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Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 112 |
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