Pool/Piscina

Name of structure: Pool/Piscina
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Type of structure: Pool
Country or main area: Tunisia
Region within country or main area: Mahdia Governorate
City or area within region: El Djem
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Specific place of mosaic: Horseshoe shaped piscina entirely covered with mosaic
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Sides depict sea filled with sea creatures and plants.  Also flamingoes
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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), 157
See also:
Merlin, A., BAParis (1911), 159
Merlin A., Inventaire des mosaïques de la Gaule et de l’Afrique, 2, supplement (1915,  11-12, no.71a  

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