Nymphaeum, Villa dei Quintili

Name of structure: Nymphaeum, Villa dei Quintili
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Nymphaeum
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Lazio
City or area within region: Via Appia, Rome
Date of structure: Second half second century AD
Century of structure 1: 2 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Niche
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Traces of mosaic decoration, one blue glass tessera found on ground
Date of mosaic: Second 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), 119-20
See also:
Canina, La prima parte della Via Appia dalla Porta capena a Boville, 1, 133-38,pl. 33
Canina, Gli edificj antichi dei contorni della città, 5 (1856), 34-35; 6 (1856), pl. 26
Tomassetti, G., La Campagni romani antica, mediovale e moderna (Rome: 1910), 2, 94, fig 21
Muñoz, A, BullCom/Bullettino della Commissione archeologica comunale di Roma, 41 (1913), 14-21, figs 6-10, pls. 4-6
Ashby, The Roman Campagna in Classical Times (1929), 185
Crema, L., L’architettura romana, Enciclopedia Classica, Sezione III, Archeologia e storia dell’arte classica, vol 12, Archeologia (Turin: Arte romana Tomo1), 1959), 464, figs 599-600
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), 160 no. 79
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