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Roman Mosaic Art

Collection of ancient mosaics depicting various themes like hunting and mythology, featuring intricate designs and vibrant colors from the Roman period.

Israel, Lower Galilee, floor mosaic from the mishnaic period at Zippori National Park
Israel, Lower Galilee, floor mosaic from the mishnaic period at Zippori National Park
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Ancient Roman mosaic
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Roman Art. Mosaic. Ulysses (Odysseus) king of Ithaca, resists to the sirens. (Odyssey). Vatican Museums. City of the Vatican.
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The bikini girls, sportswomen, mosaic floor, 3rd, 4th century Roman luxury villa, Villa Romana del Casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Italy, Europe
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Italy - Friuli Venezia Giulia region - Aquileia (Udine province) - Patriarchal Basilica of Saint Mary (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1998). 4th-century mosaic flooring representing a cock fighting against a tortoise
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Plaster cast of a relief from the temple of Reit el-Wali, Lower Nubla The cast depicts a military expedition by Rameses II (1279-1213 BC), and the presentation to the pharaoh of the produce of Nubia and the lands of tropical Africa
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France, Herault, Loupian, Gallo Roman villa a few kilometres south of the Via Domitia, excavations have revealed the remains of a Gallo Roman villa very rich in mosaics
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Mosaic Floor Panel. Unknown 4th century A.D.
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Standard of Ur. Sumeria. 2500 BC. Helmeted lancers, charioteers, horses, chariot.
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Ostia Antica. Baths of Buticosus. 1st - 2nd centuries AD. Caldarium. Mosaic depicting Triton and Nereid. Near Rome.
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France,Paris,Louvre,Oriental Antiques Section,Depiction of an Archer on Frieze from Palace of Darius 1st
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Mosaik mit geometrischer Dekoration Mosaic with geometric decoration, Opus tessellatum, 3rd - 4th century AD, San Sebastián Street, Calahorra, Museum of Romanization, Calahorra, La Rioja, Spain, Europe Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 22945883
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A vase-painting: two men accompanying a woman with a basket on her head; a thiasos (). Coloured engraving.
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Amsterdam, Berlage stock exchange
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Tomba dei Leopardi Tomb with frescoes from the 5th century BC, Etruscan Monterozzi Necropolis, Tarquinia, Viterbo Province, Lazio Region Latium, Italy, Europe
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Mosaic floor from a house in Aquae Sulis. Showing horses and other creatures in ocean colours. Aquatic scenes with sea beasts were popular designs in bath houses. Probably 3rd-4th century AD.
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Satiro surprising a nymph (Satiro che sorprende una ninfa), 1st Century, fresco on wall
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Roman mosaic with marine and rural scenes. Late Imperial, late 2nd-3rd C. AD. Detail. Workman with short tunic. Museum Metropolitan. NY. USA.
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Tunisia, Tunis, Bardo Museum, Roman-era mosaics
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rampant deer, Abse of Santa María de Taüll, 12th century, Church of Santa María de Taüll, Boí Valley, MNAC, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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Mosaic with geometric decoration, Opus tessellatum, 3rd - 4th century AD, San Sebastián Street, Calahorra, Museum of Romanization, Calahorra, La Rioja, Spain, Europe.
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roof mosaic in the old city morocco africa and history travel
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Roman mosaic with marine and rural scenes. Late Imperial, late 2nd-3rd C. AD. Detail. Workman with oxes. Museum Metropolitan. NY. USA.
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Lion mosaic and Greek writing, from the Synagogue of Hamat Tiberius, 3rd-5th c. AD, Israel.
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Roman mosaic. Limestones. Secutor versus retiarius. Depiction of the mortal combat between the secutor Astyanax and the retiarius Kalendio. The lanista (gladiator trainer) encourages the combat. Astyanax was the winner (the inscription VICIT appears beside Astyanax). Detail of the scene from the upper half of the mosaic. 3rd century AD. From Rome (Italy). National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain.
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Fructus being served a drink by his slave Myro, mosaic, 3rd century AD, Roman from Uthina, Tunisia
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Ancient Roman mosaic, fighting and hunting, Villa Romana del Casale, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Piazza Armerina, Province of Enna, Sicily, Italy, Europe
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Krater depicting Zeus and gods of Olympus, detail depicting Zeus and another god holding horn of plenty
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England, London, British Museum, Reconstruction of a Kerma Culture Burial from Nubia dated 2050-1750 BC
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Lazio Roma Rome S. Cecilia in Trastevere53. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Architectural sculpture, architectural fragments, sculptural fragments, sculpture, mosaics, floor tiling. Post-medieval: Painting, frescoes, architectural sculpture, sculpture, architecture, stucco, marble, gilding Antiquities: Mosaics, architectural fragments Object Notes: Built over an already existing church of the 5th century by Pope S. Pasquale I in the 9th century. Suffered damaged and plundering; rebuilt in 1110. Completely redone in 15th century, 17th century and 18th century. Styles from 10th-present century are existent here. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Rena
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Knossos (alternative spellings Knossus, Cnossus, Greek s), also known as Labyrinth, or Knossos Palace, is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and probably the ceremonial and political centre of the Minoan civilization and culture. The palace appears as a maze of workrooms, living spaces, and store rooms close to a central square. Detailed images of Cretan life in the late Bronze Age are provided by images on the walls of this palace. It is also a tourist destination today, as it is near the main city of Heraklion and has been substantially restored by archaeologist Arthur Evans. The city of Knossos remained important through the Classical and Roman periods, but its population shifted to the new town of Chandax (modern Heraklion) during the 9th century AD. By the 13th century, it was called Makryteikhos or 'Long Wall'; the bishops of Gortyn continued to call themselves Bishops of Knossos until the 19th century. Today, the name is used only for the archaeological sit
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Mosaic of female gymnasts in bikinis, Hall of Female Gymnasts, Villa Romana del Casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Italy
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A young Greek warrior takes leave of his family Date: circa 5 BC
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Susa; Winged Griffin. First millennium B.C.
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19th century Idealised illustration of Ancient Greek warriors
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Italy - Sicily Region - Piazza Armerina. Villa Romana del Casale (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1997), mosaic of ten women exercising in a gymnasium (known as the 'Bikini Girls mosaic', 4th century A.D.). Detail
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Banquet under a pergola, detail from the Nilotic mosaic of the flooding of the river Nile in Egypt, from the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina, Lazio, Italy. Roman civilization, 1st century BC.
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Mosaic with charioteers in the Palazzo Massimo, National Museum of Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe
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Roman Mosaic, Dionysus with Panther, c4th century. Artist: Unknown.
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Ruins of Milreu. Roman Villa (1st - 4th century A.D.). Mosaic detail. Estoi, near Faro. Algarve. Portugal.
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Byzantine mosaic, Adam and Eve eat from the tree of sin, the expulsion from Paradise, Cappella Palatina, Palatine Chapel of the Palace of the Normans or Royal Palace of Palermo, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, Europe
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Astral sign of Virgo in mosaic in Galleria Umberto, Naples, Campania, Italy, Europe
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Plaster cast of a relief from the temple of Beit el-Wali, depicting a military expedition by Ramesses II. Dated 1279 BC
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Wall painting from tomb of Sennefer, Abydos, 18th Dynasty, showing boat on the Nile with square-rigged sail and oarsmen.
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Babylon's lion. Lions and flowers decorated the Processional Wal (Ishtar Gate). 575 BC. Pergamon Museum. Museum Island. Berlin. Germany.
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From the Standard of Ur (Peace side). Sumerian artefact (circa 2600 BC) excavated from the royal tomb in the city of Ur in the 1920's. South of what is now Baghdad in Iraq. It is an historical account of ancient warfare, and shows a king, subjects, musicians, soldiers and animals.
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Funerary Couch Mosaic. The central figure reclines on a couch, a stoup of wine in his left hand. His wife, in elegant robes and a high head-dress, sits on his left, and their younger children are disposed around them. Dated 278 A.D.
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Orestes takes part in a chariot race. Horses from Thessaly.
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MOSAICO DE LOS DIAS DE LA SEMANA. Location: CASA DEL PLANETARIO, ITALICA.
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Ishtar Gate. Babylon. 575 BC. Decoration with aurochs and dragons. Archaeological Museum. Museum of Ancient Orient. Istanbul. Turkey.
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Historical print from the 19th century, facsimile of the Greek theatre on a vase painting from the 7th century BC depicting Dionysus with Satyrs or demons with two faces, Greece, Europe, digitally altered, Europe
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Cido-Carolingian pagan mercenary leader, El Gran Soldano, tempera drawings on paper, ca. 1470, Museum Castelgrande, Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland, Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland, Europe