Nymphaeum, library court

Name of structure: Nymphaeum, library court
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Type of structure: Nymphaeum
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Campania
City or area within region: Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli
Date of structure: Original structure constructed first century BC but subsequently altered by Hadrian.
Century of structure 1: 1 BCE
Century of structure 2: 2 AD
Specific place of mosaic: Vault
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Traces composed of cut tesserae in rows in the vault, which Sear dates to Hadrian
Date of mosaic: Hadrianic, second century AD
Century of mosaic 1: 2 AD
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Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)?
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Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 109
See also:
Lugli, G., BullCom/Bullettino della Commissione archeologica comunale di Roma
Bulletin de la Société archéologique de Sousse, 56 (1928), figs 2-4, pls 1,2
Wirth, RM, 44 (1929), 142-45
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), 234, no. 192

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