- 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...
- pots.
Fragmentary amphorae could be
pounded into
chips to use in opus
signinum, a type of
concrete widely used as a
building material, or
could simply...
- by archaeology.
Between 1990 and 1992 the
Domus del
Pavimento of Opus
Signinum was excavated, in
which the camp
structures were
replaced by
civil ones...
- the
frigidarium (cold room)
floor and cold bath,
constructed from opus
signinum. Once the
vault was finished, the bulk of the
remaining parts of the ****et...
- centuries, this
mosaic is made of tesserae, and not the more
common opus
signinum, or
other kinds of
stone chips set in mortar. The
Alexander Mosaic is complemented...
- seem to
replicate the slow
motion of a
crawling worm)
rather than opus
signinum or
other forms of
stone chips put in mortar.
These tesserae were about...
- of ten
rooms can be seen today. Two
rooms contain the
remains of "opus
signinum" floors, and
three have
evidence of tiled, or "tessellated", floors. Details...
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mixtum Opus
quadratum Opus
regulatum Opus
reticulatum Opus
sectile Opus
signinum Opus ****atum Opus
tessellatum Opus
testaceum Opus
vermiculatum Opus vittatum...
-
doorway is
still in place. The
floor of the
structure was
originally opus
signinum, a hard
waterproof concrete made with broken-down
tiles or bricks, giving...
-
early basilica. The
caldarium consisted of a
large heated room with opus
signinum floor over a
hypocaust whose heat was
produced in a
praefurnium of two...
