Entrance from the Square Peristyle (53)
Files
Collection Date
10-8-2025
Model Creation Date
02/01/2022
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.
Extent
1 3D Model
Media Type
Models (Representations); Renderings (Drawings)
Format
Digital Only
Digitization Specifications
Method: Agisoft Metashape
Processing Software
Agisoft Metashape
Download Size
26MB
Geometry
169.5k Triangles
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
