Fountain, Maison du Bassin Figuré
| Name of structure: | Fountain, Maison du Bassin Figuré |
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| Type of structure: | Fountain |
| Country or main area: | Tunisia |
| Region within country or main area: | Bizerte Governorate |
| City or area within region: | Utica |
| Date of structure: | Second half of fourth century |
| Century of structure 1: | 4 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | |
| Specific place of mosaic: | Top, basin and walls |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Figures with plant motifs on white marbled ground. Plants have spiky leaves in green tesserae with red and turquoise flowers. Draped figures are in brown, yellow, red, turquoise, yellow and blue glass. |
| Date of mosaic: | |
| Century of mosaic 1: | 4 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), pp. 165-66 See also: Alexander and Ennaifer, Corpus des mosaïques de Tunisie (1,1 Utique Insulae 1-2-3), 1973, 126-8, pl. 58 |
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