Images

A 1st century BCE Roman floor mosaic emblemata depicting a theatre mask. From a bedroom, domus no.1, Empuries (Emporiae), Spain. (Archaeological Museum, Empuries)

A 1st century BCE Roman floor mosaic emblemata depicting a partridge picking jewellery from a basket. From a bedroom, domus no.1, Empuries (Emporiae), Spain. (Archaeological Museum, Empuries)

A Roman fishing spear from Empuries, Spain. (Archaeological Museum, Empuries)

An Iberian funeral stela from Empuries. The design shows a a coiled iron spear or soliferreum, an action which was customary on burial. 6th century BCE. (Archaeological Museum, Empuries, Spain)

A mosaic flooring in situ from a Roman villa at Empuries (Emporiae), Spain. 1st century CE.

A mosaic flooring in situ from a Roman villa at Empuries (Emporiae), Spain. 1st century CE.

A section of the remains of the stoa or ambulacrum building in the Roman forum of Empuries (Emporiae). 1st century CE. Originally there were 30 such columns in this u-shaped structure.

A Roman lead anchor piece. 1st century CE, rescued from the sea off Empuries (Emporiae), Spain. (Archaeological Museum, Empuries)

A marble altar from the garden of a private Roman home in Empuries (Emporiae). 1st century CE, domus 2B. The sides are decorated with painted scenes of a cockerel and, on the reverse side, a two-handled glass vessel containing a pineapple...

A Roman floor mosaic emblemata depicting the myth of Iphigenia and her (almost) sacrifice by Agamemnon, her father, prior to the Trojan War. From a Roman villa, Empuries, 1st century BCE. (Archaeological Museum, Empuries, Spain)