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- A gorgeous floor from the House of Poseidon, Zeugma. It depicts the scene of Odysseus' discovery of Achilles at the court of Lycomedes, King of Skyros: ca. 2nd Century AD.

Image: Centro di Conservazione Archeologica. Link - https://t.co/gkpksUuxt8

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My entry for is this stunner from the Seville Archological Museum. The Triumph of Bacchus (3rd c C.E.). How come Ariadne doesn't look like she's feeling the triumph?

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2022-10-18

Details from an opus sectile panel from Tenby, by Karl Parsons, who made the window above this, too. Devilish difficult to photograph as it has been glazed...

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2022-09-26


Details of the floor with procession and scenes from the life of from the "Domus of Silenus" in the Thysdrus - late 2nd early 3rd century AD - El Jem Archaeological Museum,

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2022-09-13



Approximately 50 square metres of well preserved featuring a series of marine motifs have re-emerged during the archaeological excavations on the site of Pietrarossa, in the Umbrian municipality of Trevi.

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2022-09-12

Mosaic of a small hunt
Depicting a hunt, including the pursuit of wild boar,hares and deer.A nobleman is sacrificing to Artemis,whose statue rests upon a high altar. In the centre,5 hunters prepare for a banquet.
📷June
Romana del Casale

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2022-08-22



Agamemnon and Achilles face off in this scene which captures the friction between the two described by Homer early in the Iliad.

Agamemnon sits while Achilles pulls his sword from its scabbard. The goddess Athena holds Achilles by the hair.

📍 Pompeii

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2022-06-20

- A fabulous ca. 2nd Century mythological floor from Roman Nîmes. The central panel shows Agavé killing Pentheus, punishment for his refusal to acknowledge the god Dionysus.

Image: Musée de la Romanité, Nîmes (2007.1.1.0). Link - https://t.co/Ac4B8t46Fx

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2022-05-30

For a fragment of a mosaic unearthed within the large villa on the cliffs of in Much of the site has now eroded into the sea, and one is a bit afraid to ask what happened to the rest of it 😬.
Illustration and old photo © Folkestone Museum

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2022-04-18

A dangerously disgruntled Dolphin for 🐬🐬

From a 4th century townhouse found beneath Little Minster Street in 1878 and now in the excellent 🤩👍

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2022-04-11

For : 2 models and the original mosaics from 5th century churches in Olbia - modern Qasr Libya. Feel free to use them if you'd like to.

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2022-02-14

for a few drawings of the boats featured on the huge mosaic of the Grange du Bief on the Saone river North of Lyon.
DM for high res. drawings.
https://t.co/nwbF0NuvG7

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2022-01-31



Sacred from of Tifatina at Monte Tifata (modern S. Angelo in Formis). 3rd C. CE

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Working on the great geometric mosaic of the Lugdunum Museum in Lyon. An intricate assemblage of squares and rectangles hosting pretty interesting patterns.

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2022-01-25

Was the lost image at the centre of the Fifehead Neville mosaic originally Minerva wearing a helmet or Bacchus with a staff?

Alternatively, given the Hinton St Mary mosaic (now ) was found only 6km away, could this also have depicted Christ?

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2022-01-24

The Fifehead Neville 4th c mosaic from was recorded by Mary Hartley

Her painting, now in shows a central portrait, presumably a deity

Unfortunately this is the only record we have, the image being taken by souvenir hunters shortly after

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2022-01-24

Another fascinating, if slightly odd, mosaic inscription from Roman Britain (the villa at Frampton, Dorset): ‘The head of Neptune allotted the kingdom tossed by winds, whose face/beard is dark blue and girt by twin dolphins’

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2022-01-11

For this exquite mosaic depicting a group of doves drinking from an ornate bowl. From Hadrian's Villa.
The mosaic was made of thousands of small tesserae called opus vermiculatum, the most sophisticated mosaic technique.
https://t.co/SN1inaUs5f

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