Il mosaico pavimentale a Roma in età tardoantica: alcune riflessioni

The systematic cataloguing work performed in the context of the “TESS project – Sistema per la catalogazione informatizzata dei pavimenti antichi” (developed and coordinated by the University of Padua) has made it possible to identify a number of polychrome tessellates belonging to late antique residences of Rome and its suburbs, which was already known partly from literature and partly from recent archaeological surveys. An overall analysis of these evidences offers the opportunity to express some considerations on mosaic production in the area of Rome throughout the late 3rd and 4th century AD.