Baths

Name of structure: Baths
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Baths
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia,
City or area within region: Aquileia
Date of structure: First half fourth century AD, initiated  by Constantine.  Sear dated this structure to late first/early second century AD but later research (see Rubinich) provides this later date.
Century of structure 1: 4 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Walls
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Fragments found which include a variety of coloured and gilt glass tesserae and twisted glass rods. Blue running dog, flowers, griffins.
Date of mosaic: First half fourth century AD
Century of mosaic 1: 4 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
Silver tessera at site:
Gold tessera at site: Yes
Colour tessera at site: Yes
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:

Rubinich, Marina, ‘New Technologies for the ‘Great Baths’ of Aquileia: Results and Prospects’, University of Udine, <http ://ceur-ws.org/Vol-806/paper10.pdf >
Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 100
See also:
Brusin, NSc/Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1929), 126-43, figs 14-19

URLs: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-806/paper10.pdf
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