Nymphaeum

Name of structure: Nymphaeum
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Nymphaeum
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Lazio
City or area within region: Via degli Annibaldi, Rome
Date of structure: 30-20BC
Century of structure 1: 1 BCE
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: All over - walls, niches, apse
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Patterns of shells (Donax, Cardium, Murex, Mytilus) and coloured glass, Egyptian blue tesserae.
Date of mosaic: 30-20BC
Century of mosaic 1: 1 BCE
Century of mosaic 2:
Silver tessera at site: No
Gold tessera at site: No
Colour tessera at site:
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), pp. 55-56
See also:
Gatti, G., Notizie degli Scavi di Antichita, 1894, p. 277
Gatti, G., Notizie degli Scavi di Antichita, 1895, pp. 79-80
Gatti, G., Bullettino comunale/Bullettino della Commissione archeologica comunale di Roma 1895, pp. 128-9
Lanciani, R., The Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome (London: 1897), p. 361, fig. 137
Lugli, G., I monumenti antichi di Roma e Suburbil, vol 3 (Rome: 1938), supp. 39-44, figs 10-11
Neuerburg, Norman, L'architettura delle fontane e dei ninfei nell'Italia antic (Naples: G. Macchiaroli, 1965), pp. 203-4
Sear, Frank B., ‘The earliest wall mosaics in Italy’, Papers of the British School at Rome 43 (1975), 83-97, see 88-92  
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