Codex Destailleur

Name of text: Codex Destailleur
Author of text: Drawing
Date of text:
Date of person in text:
Name of structure in text: Nymphaeum
Type of structure in text: Nymphaeum
Date of structure in text Possibly first half of first century AD?
Century of structure 1: 1 AD
Century of structure 2:
Country in text: Italy
Region in text: Lazio
City in text: Albano, Rome
Specific place of mosaic in text: Walls?
Description of mosaic in text: Neuerburg suggests mosaic was used.
Mosaic date in text: 1 AD
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? No
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? No
Colour descriptions in text:
Bibliography:

Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 186
See also:
Neuerburg, N., ‘L’architettura delle fontane e dei ninfei nell’Italia antica,’ in Memorie dell’Accademia di Archeologica Lettere e Belle Arti di Napoli, V (Naples: G. Macchiaroli, 1965), 155 no. 73
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Comments: Codex was destroyed in St. Petersburg during the Russian revolution

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