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Hypogeum [underground room]

Name of structure: Hypogeum [underground room]
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Hypogeum
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Lazio
City or area within region: Sette Camini, near Rome
Date of structure: c. Hadrian
Century of structure 1: 2 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Dome and niches
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Plain white mosaic with green wreath around the ´Ç³¦³Ü±ô³Ü²õÌýof the dome.  Big scroll pattern in range of greens in niches, dark grey, brown, dull green, vivid copper green and deep blue glass tesserae [rather coarse].
Date of mosaic: c. Hadrian
Century of mosaic 1: 2 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
Silver tessera at site:
Gold tessera at site:
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), 104
See also:
Ashby, British School at Rome, 3 (1906), 104-5
Cecchelli, C., ‘Origini del mosaico parietale cristiano’,in Architettura e Arti decorative, 2 (1923), 3-21, 49-56 [for the mosaics]
Hallam, Journal of Roman Studies 21 (1931), 276-82, fig 29

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