Fountain, Casa della Fontana alle colonne, Pompeii IX-VII

Name of structure: Fountain, Casa della Fontana alle colonne, Pompeii IX-VII
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Fountain
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Campania
City or area within region: Pompeii
Date of structure: First half first century AD
Century of structure 1: 1 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: All over
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic:

Largely stone tesserae on a ground of Egyptian blue.  Some yellow, green, turquoise and light blue glass is used.
Leopards, dolphins, birth of Venus

Date of mosaic: First half first century AD
Century of mosaic 1: 1 AD
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), 71
See also:
Sogliano, NSc. [Notizie degli Scavi] (1881), 23-29
Joly, D., ‘Quelques aspects de la mosaïque pariétale au 1st siècle de notre ère d’après triose documents pompéiens’, in La mosaïque gréco-romaine (Paris: 1963), 57-75
Neuerburg, N., L’architettura delle fontane e dei ninfei nell’Italia antica (Naples: Memorie dell’Accademia di Archeologia Lettere e Belle Arti di Napoli, V, 1965), 132-33, no. 37

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