Baths of Mercury
| Name of structure: | Baths of Mercury |
| Extended name of structure: | |
| Type of structure: | Bathhouse |
| Country or main area: | Italy |
| Region within country or main area: | Campania |
| City or area within region: | Baiae |
| Date of structure: | Rotunda is Augustan, surrounding rooms later in date |
| Century of structure 1: | 1 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 2 AD |
| Specific place of mosaic: | Walls, vaults, dome on this large complex of buildings |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | All the rooms decorated in mosaic in a wide variety of colours and designs. Whole vault of barrel vault room east of rotunda covered in glass mosaic - green, blue, red, turquoise, brown. At least two other rooms include glass mosaic tesserae - orange, black, green, blue, red. |
| Date of mosaic: | Sear tentatively assigns to second century AD as large scale vault mosaics on Imperial buildings first appeared at the time of Hadrian |
| Century of mosaic 1: | 2 AD |
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| 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)? | |
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| Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 114-5 |
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