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Name of structure: Unknown
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: house?
Country or main area: France
Region within country or main area: Bouches-du-Rhône
City or area within region: Priory of Saint-Jean de Garguier
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Specific place of mosaic: Wall
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic:

"Wherever you dig you encounter debris mosaics. Count of Clapiers, who lives with the Priory of SaintJean Garguier showed us mosaic cubes, some of which were a beautiful azure and golden on the other side visible, and these had come from homes decorated with the most luxury. "
Comte de Villeneuve, Statistics Bouches du Rhône, II, 182 i,  quoted in Lafaye

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Silver tessera at site:
Gold tessera at site: Yes
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), 170
See also:
Lafaye, G. and A. Blanchet, Inventaire des mosaïques de la Gaule et de l’Afrique, vol 1 (Paris:1909), 1, 16, no. 62    

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