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- Title
Visual and Physical Degradation of the Black and White Mosaic of a Roman Domus under Palazzo Valentini in Rome: A Preliminary Study.
- Authors
Colantonio, Claudia; Baldassarri, Paola; Avino, Pasquale; Astolfi, Maria Luisa; Visco, Giovanni
- Abstract
Palazzo Valentini, the institutional head office of Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, stands in in a crucial position in the Roman archaeological and urban contexts, exactly between the Fora valley, Quirinal Hill slopes, and Campus Martius. It stands on a second-century A.D. complex to which belong, between other archeological remains, two richly decorated aristocratic domus. One of these buildings, the domus A, presents an outward porticoed room with a fourth-century AD central impluvium (open air part of the atrium designed to carry away rainwater) with a black/white tiled mosaic pavement, the preservation status of which is compromised by an incoherent degradation product that has caused gradual detachment of the mosaic tiles. To identify the product and determine the causes of degradation, samples of the product were taken and subjected to SEM-EDS, XRF, NMR, FT-IR and GC-MS analyses. The findings reported in this study can help restorers, archaeologists and conservation scientists in order to improve knowledge about the Roman mosaic, its construction phases, conservation problems and proper solutions.
- Subjects
CONSERVATIONISTS; ROMANS; GAS chromatography/Mass spectrometry (GC-MS); STANDING position; ATRIUMS (Architecture)
- Publication
Molecules, 2022, Vol 27, Issue 22, p7765
- ISSN
1420-3049
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/molecules27227765