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: Via Livenza, Rome
Date of structure: Early fourth century AD
Century of structure 1: 4 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Upper part of wall, soffit of arch, barrel vault
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Covered in glass mosaic. Some figures, Moses striking the rock and Israelite kneeling to drink. Variety of colours
Date of mosaic: Early fourth century AD
Century of mosaic 1: 4 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), 130-31
See also:
Paribeni, NSc/Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1923), 388 ff, fig 8
Wilpert, RendPontAcc/Atti della Pontifica Acadamia Romana di Archaeologia: Rendiconti2 (1923), 53-82, figs 1-11
Lugli, G., I monumenti antichi di Roma e Suburbio, vol 3 (Rome: 1938), 342ff
Lugli, G., Itinerario di Roma antica (1970), 488-90
Coarelli, Guida archeologica di Roma (1974), 227-28

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