Villa of Dar Buc Ammera

Name of structure: Villa of Dar Buc Ammera
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Type of structure: Room
Country or main area: Libya
Region within country or main area: Tripolitania
City or area within region: Zliten
Date of structure: Second century AD
Century of structure 1: 2 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Wall but no longer extant
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: At edge of floor mosaic is a pair of women's feet and the intention was apparently that the rest of the body would continue up the wall.  May have been in mosaic as Aurigemma found traces of wall mosaic.
Date of mosaic: Second century AD
Century of mosaic 1: 2 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
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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), 153
See also:
Aurigemma, S., I mosaici di Zliten (1926), 43-44, 220, fig 141

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