Canal wall, villa on East Side of Odeon Hill
Name of structure: | Canal wall, villa on East Side of Odeon Hill |
Extended name of structure: | |
Type of structure: | Wall |
Country or main area: | Tunisia |
Region within country or main area: | |
City or area within region: | Carthage, now in National Bardo Museum, Tunis |
Date of structure: | Second century AD |
Century of structure 1: | 2 AD |
Century of structure 2: | |
Specific place of mosaic: | Walls of zigzag canal carrying water to fountain in atrium |
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Harvest scene, hunters pursuing hares or wild boar, fishermen, swans, flamingoes, ducks. Variety of coloured tesserae including black, blue, green and red glass tesserae. |
Date of mosaic: | Second century AD (Yacoub) |
Century of mosaic 1: | 2 AD |
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)? | |
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Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 163 |
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