A 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.
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Beware 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

#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.

Goddess Africa surrounded by the four seasons for #MosaicMonday

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No photo, no mosaic, just a text - the abstract of my 10k word paper on play and humour in early figural mosaics Now where to publish

Detail 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

For #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...

Looking 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.

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Very pleasingly designed floor in tepidarium of women's baths in Herculaneum.
Feels like a lovely, languid place to catch up with friends.

Late Roman Chicken mosaic within geometric floor patterns from the Bishop's Basilica of Philippopolis, a vast early Christian basilica built in the 4th century CE at Plovdiv, Bulgaria; courtesy of Carole Raddato. #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology #MosaicMonday

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Some #MosaicMonday offerings here.

Here's a new one for #MosaicMonday - this one is thought to depict the hunters Atalanta and Meleager, heading off to hunt the Calydonian boar

From 4th century AD, found near Burgos, Northern Spain

📍Now in the Burgos Museum

📸 Mine 🏺 #archaeology #ancientbluesky

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In a change from the scheduled momument of Roman mosaics, we now present instead Hans Tisdall – ‘The Alchemist’s Elements’ at Manchester University (1967) [restored and relocated in 2022].

A fantastic Roman mosaic from the Musée de la Romanité in Nîmes. #MosaicMonday #Nîmes #Roman

For #MosaicMonday, a c. 60-50 BCE #mosaic floor from the basis villæ, the Late Republican core of Hadrian's Villa. If his wife Vibia #Sabina inherited this estate, her Antonine relatives held a 200-year connection to these local stones, unified by descent rather than adoption. #AncientBluesky 🏺

And of course I should have added: #MosaicMonday !

As some of us have been discussing the possible Dewlish triton recently, who might have supported a circle, for this #MosaicMonday here's a snaky-legged person to compare and contrast. From the Horkstow mosaic, holding up the circular scenes in the central panel. 1/2

✨ #MosaicMonday in Cologne Cathedral: Spain is personified as a crowned woman holding a model of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral — part of a wider allegorical programme of Christian nations.
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