Fountain with head of Oceanus
Name of structure: | Fountain with head of Oceanus |
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Type of structure: | Fountain |
Country or main area: | Tunisia |
Region within country or main area: | 60k southwest of Carthage |
City or area within region: | Thuburbo Majus/Maius, 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 [Oceanus on floor] |
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Marine creatures, tritons and nereids. Above are birds in cages and baskets of fruit. Stone tesserae |
Date of mosaic: | Second century AD |
Century of mosaic 1: | 2 AD |
Century of mosaic 2: | |
Silver tessera at site: | No |
Gold tessera at site: | No |
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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), 165 |
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