This old Roman mosaic at Conimbriga has me wondering what's up. It seems unlikely that the mosaicists would find themselves surprised to have run out of space but...

(src: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ancient_Roman_mosaics_in_Conimbriga)

Category:Ancient Roman mosaics in Conimbriga - Wikimedia Commons

@cameron it can be fun to google "Roman mosaic mistakes"

@surlyben It's kind of a kickass pattern and I'm tempted to try to reproduce it as a quilt, truncation and all.

And then this one. "Howdy howdy, I'm a wolf!"
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Mosaic_depicting_the_She-wolf_with_Romulus_and_Remus%2C_from_Aldborough%2C_about_300-400_AD%2C_Leeds_City_Museum_%2816025914306%29.jpg

@cameron The artist was like "look. The important thing is the emotional truth of the picture." That's a happy wolf!