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Fethiye Camii / Pammakaristos Church

Güney şapeldeki başmelek Rafael mozaiği / Mosaic depicting archangel Raphael in the south chapel

📷 Tahsin Aydoğmuş, 2015

GABAM Bizans Anıtları Fotoğraf Arşivi / Byzantine Monuments Photograph Archive, GABAM

#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #romanarchaeology #Turkey Hippocampus mosaic from Adana

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Nilotic landscape from the Aventine hill, 2nd century AD.
Museo Nazionale Romano di Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome.
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Mosaic from Cirta, modern-day Constantine, Algeria, circa AD 300-325. Neptune and Amphitrite are depicted riding in a sea-borne chariot, while marine creatures and activities fill out the field.

Discovered in 1842.

Louvre Collections

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#Roman Mosaic (late 2nd - early 3rd Century AD); depicting Leda and the Swan, once central panel (emblema) of a Mosaic Floor. It was discovered in the vicinity of the Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Palaipafos in Cyprus.
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Faro Cathedral, Faro, Portugal
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#mosaicmonday late Roman (4th century) stone mosaic depicting venus holding a circular mirror and surrounded by tritons.

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Get out your tentacles folks, it’s a brand new week! Maybe you need a spare arm to hold up a protest sign, or many hands to offer aid. Take inspiration - this creature has five tentacles which is more than two arms!

🏛 Zeugmas Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep
📸 Dosseman

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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/

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Walking back into (and onto) the late #Roman past

The mosaics of Villa Ventorum, in the Civitas Durotrigum, gloriously reimagined The Newt in Somerset

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Chariot racing mosaic-250-300 AD

This beautifully crafted mosaic was once a central feature of a dining room (triklinion).

These elite horses were part of a triumphant 4-horse chariot team (tethrippon). Their energy and..(1/4).
📷2023
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#MosaicMonday - A detail from the Mosaic of the Aurigas, Mérida: ca. 4th Century AD. The panel focusses upon the victorious charioteer Marcianus and his lead horse, 'Illuminator'. #Roman #Art

Image: Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, Mérida (CE26389). Link - ceres.mcu.es/pages/Main?idt…

#MosaicMonday - A mosaic panel in opus vermiculatum showing a theatrical mask surrounded by the attributes of Dionysus, a thyrsus, a kantharos, and a leopard gnawing at the strap of a tympanum.
From the Sala a Tre Navate (Hall of Three Aisles) of the Imperial Palace complex of…

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From Timgad's eastern gate baths: mosaic of Neptune. Ca. 3rd. century AD. Now at the Museum of Timgad, #Algeria .
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#MosaicMonday From the Naples Archaeological Museum - How many types of fish can you recognize in this mosaic?

A beautifully preserved mosaic is gradually revealed at Insula X, Pompeii 👀😍.

📷BBC Pompeii The New Dig

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#MosaicMonday ; from the Casa Romana on the Greek island of Kos, part of an in situ mosaic from one of the three atria in the reconstructed house depicting a leopard. Dated to the 3rd century CE.

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Have you seen the dolphins at Verulamium Museum? 
This mosaic shows two dolphins wrapped around a wine cup (called a cantharus) and dates back to AD150-155.
stalbansmuseums.org.uk/visit/verulami…
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