Germany · Mosaic conservation; Stone craft; Roman heritage
Konservierung römischer Mosaiken — Trier
The conservation of Roman floor and wall mosaics in Trier (Augusta Treverorum) — Germany's oldest city, Roman capital of the Western Empire from 293 CE, whose UNESCO World Heritage Roman monuments include the Porta Nigra, the Imperial Baths, and significant in-situ mosaic floors. The Trier mosaic conservator applies traditional lime-grout injection to stabilize detaching tesserae using the same material principles as the Sintra tile conservation (CRAFT-1169) but at a scale involving hundreds of thousands of individual stone and glass tesserae across large floor compositions. The conservator reads correct grout injection depth and saturation through a micro-acoustic monitoring approach adapted to ancient lime mortar.
Risk level: Stable · Not listed as ICH; Trier Roman Monuments is UNESCO World Heritage (1986)
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