@durotrigesdig.bsky.socialPart of a 4th century #Roman floor featuring waves, calyx and guilloche
Simple but undeniably effective 🤩
From a villa at Brislington found in 1899, lifted in 1900 by Bristol Museum and now on display in the M Shed on Prince's Wharf
Happy #MosaicMonday 😊
@a3minutewonder.bsky.social#mosaicMonday
Kingston upon Thames
@archaeohawke.bsky.social#MosaicMonday
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.
@kpw1453.bsky.socialPart of a 4th century mosaic floor depicting the head of the Roman sea god Neptune. Originally from Hemsworth Villa at Witchampton in Dorset, the mosaic is now part of the collections at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery in Dorchester. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain
@ideasroadshow.bsky.socialColourful details of mosaic inside the Byzantine Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna, c. 450 AD.
🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #archaeology #mosaicmonday #mosaic #byzantine #museum
@jessstilllife.bsky.socialDetail from the Downton Mosaic, 4th century CE, on display at the Salisbury Museum
#MosaicMonday
@malcolmstoneman.bsky.social👀 Petit Palais, Paris
Staircase & balustrade in Art Nouveau style, designed by Charles Girault. Set off by beautiful mosaic flooring.
The Exposition Universelle of 1900.
@tessellae.bsky.socialFor #MosaicMonday
A must visit in Rome’s Terme di Traiano
@moleymole.bsky.social
@wittspat.bsky.socialA good query came up in the comments to these fabulously interesting frescoes about the respective costs of employing a mosaicist or a painter. Starting a new 🧵in case of interest.
#MosaicMonday
@hi-its-alaa.bsky.social
@drjeball.bsky.socialBeware of the dog!
The Cave Canem entranceway from #Pompeii is such a timeless #Roman mosaic; the dog still symbolically protects his owner's house, nearly 2000 years after it was destroyed when Mt Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 🐶 #Archaeology #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky
@followinghadrian.bsky.social#MosaicMonday – Detail of the Procession of Dionysus mosaic from Augusta Traiana (modern Stara Zagora, Bulgaria). This scene from the Dionysiac thiasos shows female attendants alongside a satyr. Dated to the first half of the 4th century AD.
Regional History Museum, Stara Zagora.
@petervankooten.bsky.socialGoddess Africa surrounded by the four seasons for #MosaicMonday
@lindsaypowell.bsky.socialDetail of the Silchester 'Hexagon' mosaic from House 1 in insula XIV. The mosaic has a geometric design in colour of alternating flowers in hexagons and frets (swastikas), all within braid borders. In the collections of Reading Museum.
Photo is my own. #MosaicMonday
@scotchurchestrust.bsky.socialFor #MosaicMonday, our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, Central Church in Edinburgh has a striking example in the main first floor hallway. Staircases from the entrance and leading to the balconies all converge here.
Read about the church on the SCT site 👇
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/centr...
@colinhazlehurst.bsky.socialLooking around for a mosaic pattern to copy, I landed on the post from @drjeball.bsky.social from last week's #MosaicMonday which shows the entrance to a house in #Pompeii. I got to wondering how to lay out the 4-petalled pattern (bottom right) and fit it into a square of predetermined size.
@bwallower.bsky.social#MosaicMonday
Very pleasingly designed floor in tepidarium of women's baths in Herculaneum.
Feels like a lovely, languid place to catch up with friends.
