Passage Room (15 a-b; 1)
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Publication Date
10-8-2025
Abstract
These rooms were used as passage rooms to connect the entrance courtyard and spa rooms. The geometric floor mosaic is has a decorated broken meander frame. Its made from a pattern of ellipses arranged diagonally that alternately create squares and octagons with curvilinear sides. Inside the ovals, with a braid pattern acting as a boundary, there is a red wave pattern framing a floral motif. In the squares there are four colored bands with segmented profiles. In the octagons there are ornamental flowers.
Traces of a fresco painting on the southern and eastern walls can be seen. They are organized in a series of square and rectange rectangular panels there is a rod along which a wavy ribbon appears. In each of the ovals there are isolated figures seen.
Model Creation Date
02/01/2022
Alt Text
A three-dimensional model of two rooms made out of layered stone with intricate tile mosaics on their floors. Both rooms are rectangular, save for a small, semi-circular section at the far end of the left room. A wide entryway with stairs leading downward is seen in the left room on the wall directly opposite its semi-circular section, with a second, narrower doorway to its immediate left. The two rooms are connected by a very short "hallway," and there are raised wooden walkways seen across part of the floors of both rooms, likely installed to preserve the remaining mosaic tiles below. 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
24MB
Geometry
142.2k Triangles
Format
Digital Only
Materials
1
Rigged Geometries
No
Scale Transformations
No
Textures
1
UV Layers
Yes
Vertex Colors
No
Vertices
71.8k
Recommended Citation
USF Institute for Digital Exploration, "Passage Room (15 a-b; 1)" (2025). Villa del Casale Mosaics. 37.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/idex_casale/37
