Bathhouse

Name of structure: Bathhouse
Extended name of structure: Roman Baths
Type of structure: Bathhouse
Country or main area: Bulgaria
Region within country or main area: Plovdiv
City or area within region: Philippopolis
Date of structure: Second half third century AD
Century of structure 1: 3 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Probably the vault
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: In 1937 thousands of small glass tesserae, 37 different colours and shades, found on floor of frigidarium
Date of mosaic: Second half third century AD
Century of mosaic 1: 3 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), 141
See also:
Tsontchev, ‘Bain romain nouvellement découvert à Philippopolis (Thracia)’, in Annuaire de la bibl. Nat. et du Mus. Nat. de Plovdiv 1939 (1940), 157-9
Romanelli, BullMC 10 (1939), 155

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