Villa
Name of structure: | Villa |
Extended name of structure: | |
Type of structure: | House |
Country or main area: | Switzerland |
Region within country or main area: | Geneva |
City or area within region: | Cour St. Pierre |
Date of structure: | Third or early fourth century AD |
Century of structure 1: | 3 AD |
Century of structure 2: | 4 AD |
Specific place of mosaic: | South wall of room 'D' |
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Shells, black, white and red stone tesserae, red, blue, green and gold glass tesserae. Only loose fragments found. |
Date of mosaic: | Third to fourth century AD |
Century of mosaic 1: | 3 AD |
Century of mosaic 2: | 4 AD |
Silver tessera at site: | |
Gold tessera at site: | Yes |
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), 177 |
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