Nuove testimonianze musive dalla domus e dalle terme di Campo della Fiera, Orvieto (campagna 2016)

During the last campaign in the site of Campo della Fiera, in Orvieto, new tessellated floors were brought to light. In the domus, the room located at north of the atrium is decorated with a mosaic composed of black tesserae and marble inserts. These crustae, with different cuts and size, are mostly imported. In the centre of the mosaic there is a squared pseudoemblema bordered by listels of giallo antico marble, in which a four petalled flower of black tesserae on white background is inscribed. Comparing this to other mosaics, marble types and stratigraphic data, it is possible to date this evidence between the end of the 1st century BC and the beginning of the 1st century AD. Another mosaic was discovered in the frigidarium of the thermal bath “B”. The tessellate is made by black and white tesserae and decorated with aquatic fauna and sea monsters swimming around a central figure of Scylla. The mosaic shows evident traces of an ancient resto- ration mostly made with marble slabs. The stratigraphic and stylistic data allow to date the mosaic around the 2nd century AD, and its repairs approximately between the 3rd and the 4th century AD, right before the abandonment of the building (second half of the 4th century AD).