#MosaicMonday ; from Museo Archeologico Regionale Pietro Griffo in #Agrigento ; a gazelle drinking from a stream. Dated to the 2nd century CE, found in the Hellenistic Quarter of Agrigentum:
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A slow pan across a favourite #Roman mosaic (featuring the last surviving dolphin Bignor Roman Villa West #Sussex ) to the tessellated pavement of the N portico / corridor, 24m of which is preserved inside the modern cover building
Glorious
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🎥 April 2024
This exquisite mosaic, showing six female musicians, with two small boys dressed as cupids, on a wooden stage, once decorated the floor of an apsidal room of a Roman house at Mariamin, near Hama in Syria. Late 4th century AD #mosaicmonday
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Dionysus triumph, a mosaic from the House of Poseidon, Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Turkey.
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For #MosaicMonday , these two opus sectile mosaics (composed of large pieces of precisely shaped colored marble) depicting tigresses attacking calves. From the Basilica of Junius Bassus on the Esquiline Hill in #Rome .
ca. 2nd quarter of the 4th c. CE.
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KEM-GÖZ Mosaic discovered by French archaeologists in Defne
KAICY (Sana da) depicts the meaning of 'whoever thinks what he thinks about the contents of the house, may he face the same'.
- Hatay Archaeological Museum, Antakya
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Wroxeter - Fragment of mosaic floor from the townhouse excavations in 1914. 📷 My own.
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The Brantingham Tyche Mosaic ~ C4th–C5th CE
Get in touch with your lucky side with Tyche who embodied good fortune. She doesn’t look best pleased herself but hopefully that’s all about to turn around!
🏛 Hull and East Riding Museum