Fountain, Casa delle Colonne a mosaico

Name of structure: Fountain, Casa delle Colonne a mosaico
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: Via dei Sepolcri, Pompeii
Date of structure: Third quarter first century AD
Century of structure 1: 1 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: All over
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Egyptian blue, pumice, many colours of tesserae. Small niche within larger one decorated in flower designs.  Inner niche has bird sitting on rim of two-handled vase. Outer niche has recumband Venus rising from the sea.
Date of mosaic: Third quarter 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), 82-83
See also:
Spano, G., NSc. (1910), 253-55, fig 1
Briggs,R.A., Pompeian Decorations (London: B. T. Batsford, 1911) under A. Speltz, The Coloured Ornament of all Historical Styles, Part 1: Antiquity (1915), pl. 46, 5 
Maiuri, A., Pompei (Rome: Itinerari dei Musei e Monumenti d’Italia, no. 32, 1958), 90
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), 134, no 39


 
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Comments: In front of this fountain stood four mosaic columns, now in National Museum, Naples (see separate entry)

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