Baths

Name of structure: Baths
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Type of structure: Baths
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Sicily
City or area within region: Piazza Armerina
Date of structure: c. 310-320 AD
Century of structure 1: 4 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Walls
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Mosaic decoration which was later covered over with marble inlay
Date of mosaic: c. 310-320 AD
Century of mosaic 1: 4 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
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Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)?
Has analysis been done?
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Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 132
See also:
Gentile, G., La Villa Erculia di Piazza Armerina, I mosaici figurati (Rome: 1959), 20
Pace, B., I mosaici di Piazza Armerina (Rome: 1955), 30
Neuerburg, N., Marsyas 8 (1959), 23, fig 2
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), 106-7, no. 1
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