fountain with Cupids

Name of structure: fountain with Cupids
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Type of structure: Fountain
Country or main area: Tunisia
Region within country or main area: 60k southwest of Carthage
City or area within region: Thuburbo Majus/Maius, now in National Bardo Museum, Tunis
Date of structure: Third century AD
Century of structure 1: 3 AD
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Specific place of mosaic: Walls
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Round the walls are erotes swimming and in boats. Figures are in brown, pink and ochre stone.
Date of mosaic: Third century AD
Century of mosaic 1: 3 AD
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Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 165
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