Latrines near Latin library

Name of structure: Latrines near Latin library
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Latrine
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Lazio
City or area within region: Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli
Date of structure: First half second century AD
Century of structure 1: 2 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Basin niches
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: traces of mosaic.  Additionally there are numerous turquoise and some blue and ochre tesserae on the floor of the room. 
Large numbers of glass tesserae round garden pool behind latrine, and also in the Greek library - blue, turquoise and blue/green.
Date of mosaic: First half second century AD
Century of mosaic 1: 2 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
Silver tessera at site:
Gold tessera at site:
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:

Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 109
See also:
Paribeni, R, ‘La Villa dell’imperatore Adriano a Tivoli’, in Il Fiore dei Musei e Monumenti d’Italia, 10 (c. 1928), pl. 38
Winnefeld, H., Die Villa des Hadrian bei Tivoli (Berlin: 1895), 98
Gusman, P., La Villa Impériale de Tibur (Paris: 1904), 96

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