Nymphaeum

Name of structure: Nymphaeum
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Nymphaeum
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Campania
City or area within region: Casa dell’Ancora nera, VI-X-7, Pompeii
Date of structure: Late first century BC
Later building stage second half of first century AD
Century of structure 1: 1 BCE
Century of structure 2: 1 AD
Specific place of mosaic: Walls, niches, apse
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: A variety of materials: shells, marble chips, fragments of glass, glass discs, broken pieces of glass vessels.  Egyptian blue.
Date of mosaic: Decoration dated to late 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:
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. 57-58
See also:
Maiuri, A., Pompeii (Rome: 1958), p. 45, pl. 26, 46 
Mau, A., and F. W. Kelsey, Pompeii – Its Life and Art (New York: 1902), pp. 345-6
Neuerburg, Norman, L'architettura delle fontane e dei ninfei nell'Italia antic (Naples: G. Macchiaroli, 1965), pp. 125-6
Sear, Frank B., ‘The earliest wall mosaics in Italy’, Papers of the British School at Rome 43 (1975), 83-97, see 92-4  

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