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✨Belated #MosaicMonday with a mosaic thought to personify Autumn✨

We must confess to enjoying the long weekend and entirely missing Monday, but we’re back now! In our corner of the globe, autumn is upon us - though it might very well be the warmest autumn in quite some time. To honour the season, we offer this beautiful mosaic. It’s provenance is not ideal but it is thought to date to the 2nd to 3rd century CE.

#AncientRome #NearEast #Autumn #History

Nina Willburger 1d ago

For #MosaicMonday and #Easter Monday a lovely image of a #rabbit, a detail from a mosaic showing Orpheus surrounded by enchanted #animals.

Found in Antioch, modern-day Antakya, Türkiye. Dating 4th c. AD.

On display at Museum Kestner Hannover.

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#archaeology

Ulla Rajala 1d ago

Detail of a Roman floor mosaic depicting a border of an inhabited acanthus spiral (rinceau) including two birds and an insect. Originally part of a bath from the Via S. Lorenzo in Panisperna (1888). Dated second to early first century BC. Now in the Capitoline Museums. #MosaicMonday

The Partial Historians Mar 30

✨Orpheus✨

This #MosaicMonday we celebrate Orpheus, whose musical gifts were such that he was capable of attracting all manner of animals to his side. In this mosaic panel, found near Edessa and dated to 194 CE, Orpheus plays his lyre and predator and prey alike are soothed by his song.

#AncientRome #History #Orpheus

Nina Willburger Mar 30

For #MosaicMonday a detail of a mosaic in the basilica of #Aquileia depicting #snails in a basket.
The meaning of the motif is unclear. It was suggested that it is a symbol of resurrection, as snails are hibernating animals. But it was also argued that the motif is a symbolic representation of the dishes most favoured by the upper class during holy feasts.

Dating 4th century AD.

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Ulla Rajala Mar 30

The Judgement of Paris dated to the 3rd Century AD. Roman Mosaic from the Villa del Alcaparral in Casariche. Now in Museum of Archaeology, Seville. #MosaicMonday

~meoralis~Mar 28

#FotoVorschlag: Glänzend // Shiny

Ein hübsch glänzendes #Glasmosaik in #Potsdam auf dem #Luisenplatz, das an drei preußische Königinnen erinnern soll.
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A shiny #glass #mosaic in Potsdam's Luisenplatz Square, commemorating three Prussian queens.

#Mosaik #MosaicMonday #Mosaikkunst #mosaicArt #Glas #Krone #crown #art #Kunst #öffentlicheKunst #publicArt

Art History Animalia Mar 24

For #NationalCoyoteDay on #MosaicMonday :
#Coyote Head
Toltec, Early Post-Classic (900-1250 CE)
Offering of the El Corral Shrine, Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico
Ceramic vessel with shell mosaic and bone, H 13 x W 9.6 cm
INAH https://arqueologiamexicana.mx/mexico-antiguo/guerrero-coyote
#IndigenousArt #MesoamericanArt

e.w. niedermeyer Mar 23

wishing you all a very cheeky #mosaicmonday

The Partial Historians Mar 23

✨Cyrene ✨

This #MosaicMonday we celebrate the princess Cyrene who leant her name to the Greek colony in Libya. In myth she is known as the daughter of Hypseus, king of the Lapiths and the Naiad Chlidanope. Her sons by Apollo were Aristaeus and Idmon. Aristaeus sounds like the kind of god we’d love to met as he was the god of animal husbandry, bee-keeping and cheese making. Idmon became a famed seer. Cyrene herself was famous as a huntress, and reputedly called ‘lionkiller’, and was at times a companion of Artemis.

#AncientGreece #AncientRome #History