Search Results: Mosaic

Mosaic of the Three Graces from Caesarea in Mauretania (modern-day Cherchell in Algeria). Dated to the 4th century CE. Archaeological Museum of Cherchell, Algeria.

Fragment of a mosaic pavement with the head of Medusa. From Sparta (Greece), dated to the second half of the 3rd century CE. Archaeological Museum of Sparta, Greece.

Mosaic with a huge portrait head of Oceanus, surrounded by four nereids and three lines of Latin verse. From Ain Temouchent near Sétif, late 4th or early 5th century CE. Musée national des Antiquités, Algiers, Algeria.

Mosaic in the House of the Planetarium in Italica (an archaeological site located in modern-day Santiponce, 9 kilometres (5.5 miles) north of Seville in Spain) with busts of the planetary deities who gave their names to the days of the week...

Fragments of the mosaic flooring form the first floor promenade of the Baths of Caracalla, Rome (c. 235 CE).

Roman mosaic panel depicting a Thraex, or Thracian (left) fighting a murmillo (right), dated to the 3rd century CE. Römerhalle, Bad Kreuznach, Germany.

Mosaic of the nymph Cyrene, a Thessalian princess (the daughter of King Hypseus of the Lapiths), and later, the queen and ruler of the North African city of Cyrene. She holds a flagon in her left hand and a reed in her right. From Lambaesis...

Mosaic representing four charioteers from different parts of a Roman circus and their horses, Roman work (end of the 3rd century CE) from the villa located near the Baccano wood, and exhibited at the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme in Rome (Italy...

Mosaic depicting two gladiators being separated by a referee, late-3rd century CE. House of the Gladiators, Kourion, Cyprus.

Mosaic depicting a quadriga of the factio prasina (‘the Greens,’ representing the spring), 3rd century CE, from Rome. (National Archaeological Museum of Spain, Madrid) The green team is victorious. Their admired steeds have performed splendidly...