Location: Main hall. 

Name: Mosaic fragment

Chronology: 1st-2nd century AD

Place of production: Undetermined

Material: White and blue marbre

Dimensions: 21×11 cm

Use and function: Luxury domestic paving, ornamentation

Description: Fragment of mosaic made of white marble and dark brown. It has a geometric decoration made up of 1.5 cm cube-shaped white and blue tesserae, grouted with mortar. It represents the decorative luxury of the Roman villa in which it was found. No other fragments have survived, so we do not know what it represented. This material was considered to be of the highest luxury.

State of preservation: Incomplete

Restorations: Made by Belén Martínez between October and December 2014.

Provenance of find: Silla. Theatre excavations (1979)