Entrance from the Square Peristyle (53)
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Publication Date
10-8-2025
Abstract
The room was considered an official passage area for guests. In it, the mosaic depicts a kantharos on a white background with a black double-threaded frame. From the large truncated cone shaped container, two acanthus spirals with a heart-shaped apex emerge symmetrically. The small mosaic fragment preserved to the west contains four forepart of animals. The volutes, embellished with a vermilion ribbon, originate from large bi-colored pelt-shaped tufts and host, in the resulting lozenge-shaped areas, flowers and birds. This decorative acanthus head pattern covers the rest of the mosaic ornament and echoes, by contiguity, the same subject represented along the arms of the elliptical courtyard above.
Model Creation Date
02/01/2022
Alt Text
A three-dimensional model of a tiled, stone entryway to a domicile or other building. Two stone steps lead from a lower part of the entrance up to a larger, flat section that is decorated with a tiled mosaic across its floor, though only about a third of said mosaic remains visible and undamaged. At the base of the steps is a second, smaller mosaic that remains largely intact. Smooth stone or marble surrounds the staircase, creating a clear border between the two different mosaic paintings. The 3D model can be freely moved, rotated, and zoomed in and out, allowing the viewer to inspect the object with greater detail and from multiple different angles.
Extent
1 3D Model
Media Type
Models (Representations); Renderings (Drawings)
Digitization Specifications
Method: Agisoft Metashape
Processing Software
Agisoft Metashape
Download Size
26MB
Geometry
169.5k Triangles
Format
Digital Only
Materials
1
Rigged Geometries
No
Scale Transformations
No
Textures
1
UV Layers
Yes
Vertex Colors
No
Vertices
86k
Recommended Citation
USF Institute for Digital Exploration, "Entrance from the Square Peristyle (53)" (2025). Villa del Casale Mosaics. 25.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/idex_casale/25
