Fountain, Maison du Bassin Figuré
| Name of structure: | Fountain, Maison du Bassin Figuré |
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| Type of structure: | Fountain |
| Country or main area: | Tunisia |
| Region within country or main area: | Bizerte Governorate |
| City or area within region: | Utica |
| Date of structure: | Second half of fourth century |
| Century of structure 1: | 4 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | |
| Specific place of mosaic: | Top, basin and walls |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Figures with plant motifs on white marbled ground. Â Plants have spiky leaves in green tesserae with red and turquoise flowers. Draped figures are in brown, yellow, red, turquoise, yellow and blue glass. |
| Date of mosaic: | |
| Century of mosaic 1: | 4 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), pp. 165-66 See also: Alexander and Ennaifer, Corpus des mosaïques de Tunisie (1,1 Utique Insulae 1-2-3), 1973, 126-8, pl. 58 |
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