Nymphaeum

Name of structure: Nymphaeum
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Nymphaeum
Country or main area: Switzerland
Region within country or main area:
City or area within region: Baden-Stadthofquelle
Date of structure: Late second century AD
Century of structure 1: 2 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Niche
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Entirely covered in mosaic.  Tesserae in black and white stone, and blue, green and yellow glass, and also red, brown and black according to Keller
Date of mosaic: Late second century AD
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)?
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), 176-77
See also:
Keller, MittAntGesell/Mitteilungen der antiquarischen Gesellschaft in Zürich 12 (1860), 298
Pfyffer, Aquae Helveticae (1932), 2
Gozenbach, V. von, Die römischen Mosaiken der Schweiz (Basle: 1961),79, no. 6

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Comments: A small fragment with glass tesserae is in the Landesmuseum, Zurich

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