Nymphaeum, Casa di Valerio Vegeto

Name of structure: Nymphaeum, Casa di Valerio Vegeto
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Nymphaeum
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Lazio
City or area within region: under Monache Barberini, Via XX Settembre, Rome
Date of structure: c. 91 AD
Century of structure 1: 1 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Niches
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic:
Date of mosaic: Foliage patterns, flowering plants, parrots and other birds
Century of mosaic 1: 1 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
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Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)?
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Excavation and restoration campaigns: Site discovered in 1881 during the building of the Ministery of War. Dated by lead pipe discovered on site in 1641 bearing name of Valerius Vegetus, Consul Suffectus in 91 AD
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 99
See also:
Lanciani, R., NSc/ Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, (1884), 103
Capannari, BullCom/Bullettino della Commissione archeologica comunale di Roma
Bulletin de la Société archéologique de Sousse, 13 (1885), 11-17, pl. 1
Blake, M. E., Roman Construction in Italy from Tiberius through the Flavians (Washington DC: 1959), 130-31
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), 213, no. 162

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