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Roman mosaic from Bignor, West Sussex
The engraving shows part of a mosaic pavement from the Roman villa at Bignor, West Sussex. This was found in Room 7 on Lysons' plan, which had an hexagonal pool surounded by a mosic floor divided into hexagonal compartments with dancing nymphs. The other half of the pool can be seen in Britannia Romana 96.
Creator
- Lysons, Samuel
- Meyrick, Samuel Rush, Sir
Subject
- Drawings
- Engravings/Etchings/Lithographs
- archaeology
- Drawing
- Archaeology
Creator
- Lysons, Samuel
- Meyrick, Samuel Rush, Sir
Subject
- Drawings
- Engravings/Etchings/Lithographs
- archaeology
- Drawing
- Archaeology
Providing institution
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Intermediate provider
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Rights
- Lysons, Samuel|Meyrick, Samuel Rush, Sir
Temporal
- Roman
Places
- Bignor
- England
- Europe
- Sussex
- United Kingdom
- West Sussex
- West Sussex
- United Kingdom
- Bignor
- England
Provenance
- Society of Antiquaries of London Catalogue of Drawings and Museum Objects: Britannia Romana
Source
- Archaeology Data Sevice
Identifier
- society_albums/britannia_romana/br97c
Is part of
- http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/SoA_images/index.cfm?CFID=9579&CFTOKEN=BF7E76A0-D723-4BB2-9AC4B2BE9A527C12
References
- Barry Cunliffe, The Regni (London: Duckworth, 1973), pp. 89-95.|David E Johnston, 'The Central-Southern Group of Romano-British Mosaics', in Julian Munby and Martin Henig, eds., Roman Life and Art in Britain: A Celebration in Honour of the Eightieth Birthday of Jocelyn Toynbee 2 vols. (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1977), 1: 115, 117.|J M C Toynbee, Art in Britain Under the Romans (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964), pp. 260-2.|J M C Toynbee, Art in Roman Britain (London: Phaidon Press, 1962), no. 190, p. 200.|Neil Andrew Cookson, Romano-British Mosaics: A Reassessment and Critique of Some Notable Stylistic Affinities (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1984), pl. 38. Illustration, pl. 38.|Samuel Lysons, 'Account of Further Discoveries of the Remains of a Roman Villa at Bignor in Sussex', Archaeologia 19 (1821): 176-7.|Samuel Lysons, 'Account of the Remains of a Roman Villa, Discovered at Bignor, in Sussex, in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, and 1815', Archaeologia 18 (1817): 203-21.|Samuel Lysons, Reliquiæ Britannico-Romanæ, Containing Figures of Roman Antiquities Discovered in Various Parts of England 3 vols. (London: Cadell and Davies, 1813-17), 3: 1-6. Illustrations, pls. V, VII-IX.|Thomas Morgan, Romano-British Mosaic Pavements: A History of Their Discovery and a Record and Interpretation of Their Designs (London: Witing & Co., 1886), 203.|William Page ... [et al.], eds., The Victoria History of the County of Sussex 9 vols. (London, 1905-1937), 3: 20-3.
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2016-01-18T10:20:23.109Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-07-25T11:21:26.369Z