4th Room of Private Apartment (29)
Files
Collection Date
10-8-2025
Model Creation Date
02/01/2022
Abstract
This polychrome mosaic is in good condition. It depicts an idyllic landscape of symmetrically arranged cupid fishermen. The foreground of the mosaic shows a marine view with thick underwater vegetation, and the background has a villa with a large portico. The realistic portrayal of the architecture follows the semicircular inlet of the rocky shore. The rest of the scene takes place at sea and is occupied by 4 boats, decorated with similar colors as the villa and adorned with different geometric motifs. Each boat has 3 cupid fishermen inside marked with a black “V” on the forehead – a distinctive sign of the tetrarchic era. The detail of the cupid fishermen being depicted without wings shows the tendency to humanize fantastical figures in these mosaics.
Extent
1 3D Model
Media Type
Models (Representations); Renderings (Drawings)
Format
Digital Only
Digitization Specifications
Method: Agisoft Metashape
Processing Software
Agisoft Metashape
Download Size
75MB
Geometry
116.5k Triangles
Materials
1
Rigged Geometries
No
Scale Transformations
No
Textures
1
UV Layers
Yes
Vertex Colors
No
Vertices
58.9k
Recommended Citation
USF Institute for Digital Exploration, "4th Room of Private Apartment (29)" (2025). Villa del Casale Mosaics. 15.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/idex_casale/15
