Shrine pediment

Name of structure: Shrine pediment
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Type of structure: Shrine
Country or main area: Tunisia
Region within country or main area: 60k southwest of Carthage
City or area within region: Thuburbo Majus/Maius, now in National Bardo Museum, Tunis
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Specific place of mosaic: Tympanum
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Tesserae are minute. Male figure, some green and blue glass tesserae in corner with scroll.
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Colour tessera at site: Yes
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), 165
See also:
Yacoub, Le Musée du Bardo (1969), 37

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