Nymphaeum, Piazza d'Oro

Name of structure: Nymphaeum, Piazza d'Oro
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: 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: Niches
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Large numbers of glass tesserae found on ground near niches, turquoise, blue/green, black, light blue plus Egyptian blue.
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?
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Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 110
See also:
Ligorio, P. and F. Contini, Pianta della Villa Tiburtina di Adriano Cesare (Rome: 1751), 12, no. 10
Winnefeld, H., Die Villa des Hadrian bei Tivoli (Berlin: 1895), pl. 6
Gusman, P., La Villa Impériale de Tibur (Paris: 1904), 117-9
Crema, L., L’architettura romana, Enciclopedia Classica, Sezione III, Archeologia e storia dell’arte classica, vol 12, Archeologia (Turin: Arte romana Tomo1), 1959), fig 612
Sear, Frank B., ‘The earliest wall mosaics in Italy’, Papers of the British School at Rome 43 (1975), 83-97, see 85-88  
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