Campanis sotterranea
| Name of text: | Campanis sotterranea |
| Author of text: | Joseph Sanchez |
| Date of text: | 1833 |
| Date of person in text: | Seventeenth century |
| Name of structure in text: | Catacomb of S. Severo |
| Type of structure in text: | catacomb |
| Date of structure in text | 3rd-5th century |
| Century of structure 1: | 3 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 5 AD |
| Country in text: | Italy |
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| City in text: | Naples |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Burial niches |
| Description of mosaic in text: | The historian Celano visited the crypt in 1649 and says he saw ‘pitture, pezzi di mosaico svisati, inscrizioni greche coverte di nitro sopra ed intorno alle nicchie sepolcrali’ Pictures, pieces of misplaced mosaic, greek inscriptions covered in nitre (saltpetre) on and around the burial niches. |
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| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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| Bibliography: | Sanchez, Joseph, Campanis sotterranea (Naples: 1833), vol.2, pp. 456-7 See also: Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), p. 140 |
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