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PICARD, G.C., a.o., Recherches archéologiques Franco-Tunisiennes à Mactar. I. La Maison de Vénus. 1 - Stratigraphies et étude des pavements. École Française de Rome, Palais Farnèse, 1977. 231p. ills.(B&W as well as full colour photographs and line drawings). Two folding plans. Sewn with dust wrps. Corners a bit bumped. With signature from Prof. Carl Deroux on free endpaper. Series: Collection de l'École Française de Rome, 34. 'This volume (...) is concerned primarily with the mosaics and their chronology. Comparatively few mosaics have been discovered previously at Mactar, and an ensemble from a controlled excavation is therefore a valuable addition to our knowledge of the development of the art. (...) Eighteen pavements are listed (...). The majority are non-figured, and fall into several phases, from the 'severe style' typical of the earliest pavements to the lavishly ornamental style of the late third and fourth centuries. (...) The most important is in the 'triclinium', where 152 fish and sea-creatures are displayed against a background of waves. Of these 114 can be identified, with a reasonable degree of certainty, as belonging to definite species (...). The second part of the book contains the 'sondages' which establish the chronology of the mosaics. (...) The book is handsomely presented.' (KATHERINE M.D. DUNBABIN in The Classical Review (New Series), pp.117-18). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 39.50 (Antiquarian)