Fountain niche

Name of structure: Fountain niche
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Fountain
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Campania
City or area within region: Baiae
Date of structure: Third quarter first century AD
Century of structure 1: 1 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: All over
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Stone and glass tesserae, Egyptian blue. Garden scene, peacock, three hovering birds.
Date of mosaic: Third quarter first century AD
Century of mosaic 1: 1 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
Silver tessera at site: No
Gold tessera at site: No
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), 82
See also:
Stern, H., ‘Origine et débuts de la mosaïque murale’, in Études d’Archéologie Class. 2 (1959), pl. 26, 11
Joly, D., in La La mosaïque gréco-romaine (Paris: 1963), 57
URLs: http://webapps.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explorer/index.php?qu=mosaic%20OR%20mosaics&oid=68584
Comments: Now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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