Wonderful early photograph of the Shell mosaic at Verulamium before lifting.
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Just some beautiful #Roman mosaic flowers for #MosaicMonday 🌺

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Happy Mosaic Monday!

Discovered in the 1930s, with a tree growing on top of it, the "shell" mosaic is one of the highlights of the Verulamium Museum collection.

Have you got a favourite Verulamium mosaic?

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We hope your Monday is going better than for this hippo from Pompeii. 🏺 #MosaicMonday

IMAGO image no #01828

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Fragment of an inlay plaque with floral motifs
mosaic glass, 5.2 x 5.2 x 3.6 cm
Alexandria, Egypt; Roman Imperial period, c.1-100 AD
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
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Before 1777, Falerio Picenus was a nearly perfectly-preserved #Roman town. Then Pius VI’s diggers arrived. For #MosaicMonday, we examine this Antonine-era leopard #emblema, stripped from a private #domus and treated as #spolia in the Vatican's Scala Simonetti. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Mosaic with head of Medusa within a shield design. Pompeii, House of the Citharist (I 4, 5-25-28, ala 54). Late Republican period, 50-20 BC. In the collections of Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN) (inv. L.2024.I)
Photo is my own.
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This building no longer exists. There is now a hotel on the site. I love that they have preserved this on the pavement outside to remind us of its history #MosaicMonday #Ireland

A hippo and an antelope at Villa Romana del Casale. 🏺
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Party time....
Triumphant young winged Dionysus (or Cupid?) arrives in celebratory mode w wreath of vine leaves, cup of wine, riding a lion-headed tiger.

#Roman emblema from a triclinium in House of the Faun, #Pompeii. Bordered with tragic masks and garlands.
In MANN, Naples

For this #MosaicMonday, a strip of guilloche looking like mosaic but actually painted. This is the piece I mentioned in the recent post about mosaicists/painters. In Winchester City Museum.
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Late Roman Avian Floor Mosaic from the Bishop's Basilica of Philippopolis, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, a vast early Christian basilica built in the 4th century CE and decorated with elaborate geometric and figural designs; courtesy of Carole Raddato.#RomanArchaeology #Archaeology #MosaicMonday

✨Cave Canem✨ We’re not saying this excellent doggo is particularly dangerous, but they are guarding the Casa di Paquius Proculus in Pompeii, so best be careful! Also this doggo comes with a labrys (double axe) and a shield and spear!

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Better photos of the central motif from the House of Dionysus on Delos, the original of which is in the Mykonos Archaeological Museum. The tesserae on this are *minuscule* - my hand for reference (no, I was not touching it!) Happy #mosaicmonday everyone 😁 #ancientBluesky

Bellerephon slaying the Chimera
Lindos. His lead tipped spear melting in the throat of the fire breathing beast and suffocating it.
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These are a real treat. Winter, in particular, is worth a zoom: she looks so cold and tiny on her handsome boar. The seasonal identity of Spring and Winter is reinforced by their animals - they traditionally represent these seasons.
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#MosaicMonday The temporary (long time) exhibition in Vienne that we saw a week ago is of The Four Seasons. Here are a few of the many panels.

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Part 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 😊