Baths, Antonine Baths

Name of structure: Baths, Antonine Baths
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Baths
Country or main area: Tunisia
Region within country or main area:
City or area within region: Carthage
Date of structure: Second century AD
Century of structure 1: 2 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: tepidarium, probably the springing of the vault
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Dozens of glass tesserae found in a wide variety of colours.  Leaf pattern.
Date of mosaic:
Century of mosaic 1:
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), 155-6
See also:
Lezine, Carthage-Utique (1968), 42-3, pl. 30

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