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Caddeddi on the Tellaro - A Late Roman Villa in Sicily and its Mosaics (Paperback)
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Caddeddi on the Tellaro - A Late Roman Villa in Sicily and its Mosaics (Paperback)
Series: Babesch Supplements, Volume 28
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The late Roman villa of Caddeddi, near Noto in south-east Sicily,
first came to light over forty years ago. Built in the second half
of the fourth century AD, it is chiefly known for its three figured
mosaic pavements, which after careful restoration in Syracuse were
returned to the site prior to its opening to the public in 2008.
This book describes in detail these and other pavements at
Caddeddi, and concludes that, as at the more famous villa of Casale
near Piazza Armerina a generation before, they are likely to be the
work of North African mosaicists fulfilling an overseas commission
for the villa's owner. The book attempts to place the mosaics and
the villa itself in their wider Sicilian and Mediterranean context,
with discussion ranging over such topics as late Roman villas
elsewhere in Sicily, the iconography of myth and personification,
peacock-feather helmets, the participation of the military in the
Roman animal trade, the parallels between the mosaic floors of
Caddeddi and those of Roman North Africa, the development of a new
Roman saddle type in the fourth century, and military footwear
fashionable at the same time. Of particular note are the 197
illustrations, 184 of them in full colour, which highlight the
vividness and vivacity, as well as the polychromatic variety, of
these stunning late Roman mosaics.
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