Hypogea [underground rooms]
| Name of structure: | Hypogea [underground rooms] |
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| Type of structure: | Hypogeum |
| Country or main area: | Italy |
| Region within country or main area: | Sicily |
| City or area within region: | Villa Landolina vicinity, Syracuse |
| Date of structure: | First half second century AD |
| Century of structure 1: | 2 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | |
| Specific place of mosaic: | Three hypogea found, mosaics in two: I - small rectangular barrel-vaulted room III - large rectangular room |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | I - barrel vault originally decorated with mosaic, but only traces left. Remains of mosaic with blue ground in niches. III - ceiling, fronts and undersides of two arches bear traces of mosaic. Niches on the walls decorated with mosaic. Ceiling decorated with figurative imagery in mosaic. |
| Date of mosaic: | First half second century AD |
| Century of mosaic 1: | 2 AD |
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| 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), 103-4 |
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