Pool/Piscina, [57.159]

Name of structure: Pool/Piscina, [57.159]
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Type of structure: Pool
Country or main area: Tunisia
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City or area within region: now in museum, Sousse
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Specific place of mosaic: Walls
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Marine scene with Venus and Amorini, polychrome mosaic
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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), 161-2
See also:
Merlin, BAParis (1907), 271ff
Gauckler, P., Inventaire des mosaïques de la Gaule et de l’Afrique: Afrique preconsulaire, vol 2 (Tunisie: 1910), 65, no. 172
Foucher, Inventaire des mosaïques de la Gaule et de l’Afrique: Sousse (Feuille no. 57 de l’Atlas arch: 1960), 72

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Comments: Found near west door of the town
Record Incomplete

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