Baths, S Barbara Baths

Name of structure: Baths, S Barbara Baths
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Baths
Country or main area: Germany
Region within country or main area: Rhineland-Palatinate
City or area within region: Trier
Date of structure:
Century of structure 1:
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Walls of several rooms
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Quantity of shells and glass tesserae in white, black, red, blue, green, grey and yellow plus gold.
Date of mosaic: Baths redecorated in fourth century but an earlier dating just after 275AD is also possible (Sear)
Century of mosaic 1: 3 AD
Century of mosaic 2: 4 AD
Silver tessera at site: No
Gold tessera at site: Yes
Colour tessera at site: Yes
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)?
Has analysis been done?
Samples taken from where?
Excavation and restoration campaigns:
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 172
See also:
Loeschke, RGKBl/Römisch-Germanisches Korrespondenzenblatt 7 (1914), 82 fig 35
Germania Romana (Ein Bilder-Atlas), 2,2 (1924), pl. 4,3
Blanchet, A, Inventaire des mosaïques de la Gaule et de l’Afrique, vol 1 (Paris:1909), 2, no. 1255
Parlasca, K., Die römischen Mosaiken in Deutschland (Berlin: 1959), 67

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