Baths, Hunting Baths

Name of structure: Baths, Hunting Baths
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Baths
Country or main area: Libya
Region within country or main area: Tripolitania
City or area within region: Leptis Magna [Khoms]
Date of structure: End of second century AD
Century of structure 1: 2 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Frigidarium, niches, arches, apses
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Patterns, bands, Nilotic scene, triton, nymph, crocodile/sea monster. Wide range of coloured tesserae including some in dark blue and green glass.
Date of mosaic: End of second century AD
Century of mosaic 1: 2 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), 149-50
See also:
Vergara Caffarelli, E. and G. Caputo, Leptis Magna (Rome: 1963), 106, plan 247
Pesce, Bd’A/Bollettino d’Arte 34 (1949), 46-50, figs 105
Ward Perkins and Toynbee, Archaeologia 93 (1949), 179-80, 183, 191-2 pls 24.41 and passim
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