- Opus
signinum ('
cocciopesto' in
modern Italian) is a
building material used in
ancient Rome. It is a form of
Roman concrete (opus caementicium), the main...
-
astride the
aqueduct Aqua
Traiana and were in brick-faced
concrete with a
cocciopesto floor. In the
limited excavated area, two mill
races branched obliquely...
- from a
Roman villa of the age of Augustus; the
middle one has a
typical cocciopesto pavement; the
upper one,
bearing blackening from Attila's fire, has geometrical...
- a pea****. At the
groundlevel there is the
Roman pavement made from
cocciopesto, a
crushed clay
stone m****. In
excavations from 1912 to 1915
Roman mosaics...
- the pillars. A usual, the
walls are
waterproofed with opus
insigninum (
cocciopesto in Italian),
smoothing the
corners through kerbs placed at
their bases...
- can be made of sand, clay,
powdered bricks and tiles, or the so-called
cocciopesto (powdered
bricks mixed with mortar),
while the
organic part
works as...
- the
lares in the east wall are preserved. The
floor of the room is in
cocciopesto decorated with
white pieces while the
walls retain remnants of the stucco...
-
height in the SE
corner where part of a
basin with
stone slabs covered in
cocciopesto has been
brought to light: In the
southwest corner are
remains of the...
-
wooden door
panels were
found on the
south wall. The
floor is
paved with
cocciopesto with
travertine and lava skirts. The
black socle and
white main zone...
- Paterniano)
discovered in 1971
which included a
baths with a room
paved in
cocciopesto,
another with a hypocaust,
while in a
third the
furnace was visible....
