A Roman mosaic of snails escaping a basket.
🏛️ Basilica Patricale, Aquileia 🇮🇹
🕰️ 4th century AD
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@carausius286.bsky.socialA Roman mosaic of snails escaping a basket.
🏛️ Basilica Patricale, Aquileia 🇮🇹
🕰️ 4th century AD
@malcolmstoneman.bsky.social👀 Church of St Mary, Old Hunstanton, Norfolk
Mosaic - c1850
The church guide suggests it is based on a design Henry le Strange (of Hunstanton Hall) had seen in Vienna.
@durotrigesdig.bsky.socialModern replica of a #Roman mosaic floor set into the approach to Sudeley Castle Winchcombe #Gloucestershire
The original was found in 1882 during excavations at Spoonley Wood but has since been largely destroyed
📷 Aug 2026
@kpw1453.bsky.socialOne of several mosaics from the Roman Town House at Dorchester in Dorset. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #Dorchester #Dorset
@wittspat.bsky.social@wittspat.bsky.social#MosaicMonday - open access, unusual context
@colinhazlehurst.bsky.socialLast #MosaicMonday, @wittspat.bsky.social invited us to speculate on the subject of the panel below the ‘leopard and gazelle’ fragment from Dewlish Villa (bsky.app/profile/witt...), in particular, the three objects resembling feathers or leaves.
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@edg59.bsky.socialThis is a very poor photo, but shows an unusual take on a Roman mosaic - it is an embroidery created in 1735 from a drawing of a mosaic found near Woodstock in 1712.
If it were clearer, you'd see Bacchus on a panther.
It's in the museum in Woodstock #MosaicMonday
@anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social(I could give many other examples of frescoes of maritime villas, because the subject was incredibly popular among the Roman ruling class. But this is #MosaicMonday, and so this is the end of the thread.)
@anthonymajanlahti.bsky.socialWe are starting the week on the Oppian for #MosaicMonday. These late C1 CE wall #mosaics from beneath the #BathsofTrajan show Roman maritime villas. But they look like ghosts, because Trajan's engineers despoiled the glass tesseræ of the water. #AncientBluesky 🏺
@moleymole.bsky.socialNot sure this qualifies for #mosaicmonday
@romansites.bsky.socialOstia's the place for elephants.
#MosaicMonday
@theromansoc.bsky.socialAnother emperor (there were a LOT of emperors and usurpers so we're not featuring them all). This time in mosaic form for #MosaicMonday it's Justinian I. The mosaic is from the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna.
@romansites.bsky.socialMultiple mosaics, and some intriguing new discoveries, at Chedworth villa.
New blog at: visiting-roman-sites.blogspot.com/2026/09/ched...
@40yearsateacher.bsky.social#mosaicmonday from the marvellous medieval floor at Otranto Cathedral
@archaeohawke.bsky.social#Roman villa of the 4th century: the Largest Floor Mosaic in Cappadocia and Central Anatolia Region Uncovered - 600 square meters (📸: AA; Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality)
#Archaeology #History
