Fountain, Boville (Bovillae)

Name of structure: Fountain, Boville (Bovillae)
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Fountain
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Rome
City or area within region: near Via Due Santi, off the Via Appia Antica
Date of structure: 2nd century BC
Century of structure 1: 2 BCE
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Walls
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Room is apsed and the stones of the vault are sculpted in a branch and leaf pattern
Date of mosaic: 2nd century BC
Century of mosaic 1: 2 BCE
Century of mosaic 2:
Silver tessera at site: No
Gold tessera at site: No
Colour tessera at site: No
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), pp. 44-45
See also:
Lugli, G., ‘Nymphae sive musaea,’ in Atti del IV Congresso Naz. Di Studi Romani, 1 (1938), 156-59, fig 1
Blake, M. E., Ancient Roman Construction in Italy from the Prehistoric period to Augustus (Washington: 1947),1, 195
Lugli, G., La tecnica edilizia romana (Rome: 1957), 351, pl. 68, 1-2
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), 159-60, no. 78
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