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Orpheus playing his harp for the wild beasts, dates from about 194 CE and is the oldest of the Edessa/Urda mosaics. The artist's name is even engraved in the piece, "Bar Saged."

In the center of this mosaic dating from CE 563 is a symbol representing the four apostles who wrote the four gospels found in the New Testament: Matthew is depicted as a lion; Mark is depicted as an ox; Luke is depicted as a man; and John...

This African man leading a Zebra is a clear indication that Edessa (Sanliurfa) was connected to the massive trade routes that went through the middle east in the 3rd to 4th centuries CE.

Marble head of Germanicus, carved in about 10 CE to commemorate the journey of the Emperor Augustus with his adoptive grandson Germanicus to Pannonia (today Hungary). Now in Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Marble head of Germanicus, found in 1844 in the heart of the city of Beziers (France) where the ancient Forum of Colonia Julia Baeterrae Septimanorum stood. Ca. 14-23 CE. Now in Musée Saint-Raymond, Toulouse.

Basalt bust of the great Roman general Germanicus, from Egypt, about 14-20 CE. In late antiquity Christians broke the nose of the bust and carved a cross on the forehead. Now in British Museum, London.

Second-style Pompeian fresco in the House of Augustus (Domus Augusti) on the Palatine Hill in Rome. The vividly-coloured fresco depicts a two-storey architectural facade in blue, white, yellow and red with perspective rendition of colonnades...

Drusus Julius Caesar (Drusus the Younger) was was the only child of Roman Emperor Tiberius and his first wife, Vipsania Agrippina. He was also a maternal cousin of the Caligula, a paternal cousin of Claudius and a second cousin of Nero...

Roman mosaic with white tesserae featuring a central panel (emblema) in opus vermiculatum (micro tesserae), Floor of the triclinium of a Roman villa in Via Ardeatina in Rome, first quarter of the 1st century BCE. The above panel depicts...

An image of the wine pithos at Tel Kabri's Area D-West in situ during the 2013 excavation. The pithos were excavated out after the photo and this storage room is now covered over for conservation purposes. For purposes of the excavation...