Cryptoporticus

Name of structure: Cryptoporticus
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Cryptoporticus (covered passageway)
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Lazio
City or area within region: Villa of Ventidus Bassus, Tivoli
Date of structure: Second half of first century BC
Century of structure 1: 1 BCE
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Walls and vault
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Shell patterns (oyster, cardium, murex)
Date of mosaic: Second half of first century BC
Century of mosaic 1: 1 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), 52-53
See also:
Rezzonico, Delle ville di Tivoli (1779), 106-7
Ashby, British School at Rome, 3 (1906),  165
Gori, F., Viaggio pittorico-antiquario da Roma a Tivoli e Subiaco sino a Collepardo (Rome: 1855), 29
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), 93.95




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