4 ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



rooms, the peristyle, and other courtyards, are found in 

 excellent condition. These were composed of tessella, or 

 small cubes of coloured marble, forming geometrical de- 



signs or depicting scenes from everyday life or mythol- 

 ogy. Such mosaics were called opera segmentata, opus 

 Mosaic musivum and musaceum. The illustration shows a good 

 payei ent. specimen, which was unearthed near Leicester in 1754. 



