For #MosaicMonday a mosaic with a three dimensional cube pattern in a house on the #Greek island of #Delos , dating 2nd century BC.

#Archaeology

#MosaicMonday - Zeus, transformed into a bull, is portrayed stealing the goddess Europa.

An archive shot for #MosaicMonday . Cleaning the grand dining room mosaic. No need to wear a suit these days 😉

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Roman mosaic- Love Scene-1st century AD - Centocelle - Rome - KHM - Vienna.
📷Alberto Fernandez Fernandez

When we think of Troy it's easy to forget its Roman phase, but this perky little boar is now on display in the excellent new museum. (Apologies for the reflected lights - hard to avoid.) #MosaicMonday

Mosaic of Achilles from the ancient city of Tipasa, Algeria. Detail showing Ulysses (with the 'pileus', a felt cap) and Achilles, naked, 2nd century AD; on display at the National Museum of Antiquities, Algiers, Algeria.

#Algeria #Numidia #MosaicMonday

The incredible Low Ham Mosaic, on display at Museum of Somerset.
It depicts the tragic love story of Dido and Aeneas, and was discovered by chance in 1938 by farmer Herbert Cook.
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Let's take a look at this actor, playing the character of a blind old man, likely in an Oedipus' play. It once decorated the pavement of a rich theatre aficionado's house in Corduba, which had the largest theatre in the empire only after Rome's.
Because today it's #MosaicMonday .

#MosaicMonday - The eponymous mosaic from the House of the Synaristosai, Zeugma: ca. 3rd Century AD. A scene from Menander's lost comedy 'Synaristosai' - 'Ladies Who Lunch'. #Art

Image: Directorate General of Cultural Assets and Museums of Türkiye. Link - g.co/arts/jyaJF8wfx…

Remains of a floral mosaic from Fishbourne Roman Palace in West Sussex. The mosaic dates to 75 AD when the palace was built . #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain 📸 My own.

#MosaicMonday - Excavated in the 1930s, this fantastic mosaic depicts the personification of Summer, making the golden brown hues particularly appropriate: ca. 3rd Century AD. #Ancient #Art

Image: Archaeological Museum, Thessaloniki (ΜΘ 6727). Link - amth.gr/en/exhibitions…

Fingernail sized prancing horse to sit on the helmet visor… just need to make the other now 😅 #mosaicmonday #ferrari #keepfightingmichael

#MosaicMonday #Dawlish #Railway #Station #Devon

#MosaicMonday is going to work when you have seen the lights. 👀🤣

#Roman floor mosaic depicting the god Pan from a domus in Genazzano, Lazio, Italy ca 138/192 AD - National Roman Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, #Rome
#History #Art #Art work #Archaeology

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Black Prince Road, Vauxhall. former headquarters for Doulton.

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Byzantine #mosaic panel, Syria, 5th/6th century depicting in multicolored tesserae a large krater flanked by two ducks with heads turned back. A tabula ansata above the scene contains five lines of #Greek dedicatory inscription. (See Alt )
#Art #History

For #MosaicMonday , a rarity in the Roman world: a mosaic portrait. Made of extremely small tesserae - opus vermiculatum - it depicts a staid young woman, almost matronly. She was found in the floor of a cubiculum (bedroom) of the Casa della Matrona Ignota, #Pompeii . 1/

📸 me

👀 Mount Stewart, #CountyDown

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For #MosaicMonday the Victorian frontage of the Horniman Museum. Entitled 'Humanity in the House of Circumstance' it contains over 17,000 tiles and is 10ft high x 32ft wide🤗