Thought to be part of a series of the four season, this mosaic depicts a figure with wings wearing a wreath of grapes and holding more grapes in a hold of their gown. The mosaic is a square panel with a wavy border in undulating reds and grays.

✨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.

The Dolphin Mosaic, Fishbourne, with the Mosaic Maker’s Mark, a black bird, at the top

SO, s’funny thing you should mention that!
Was about to follow up my original post with one of the Mosaic Maker’s Mark. I remember taking a closer photo. Could I find it on the phone or camera?
So here’s the best view of the Little Black Bird (top) from the other photos I took.
#MosaicMonday

MOSAIC WITH A LION ATTACKING A BULL, C. 20 BCE (?). VATICAN MUSEUMS This beautiful little emblema was found in Hadrian's Villa in 1779, but the VM catalogue dates it to the early reign of Augustus, well before the existence of the Villa. This is not necessarily a mistake: emblemata were valuable artworks and could be collected. If this is early Augustan, it was almost certainly a Greek import, as Roman mosaicists were not yet capable of such refined work. We see here a desert landscape with rocky outcrops at left and centre. A few shrubs provide a bit of greenery. The space is divided horizontally by a river, on the far side of which a bull looks at the main action, safe from attack. At centre foreground, a lion has pounced on another bull, which is looking across at the bull on the other side. The lion is sinking its teeth into the bull's left haunch. The bull is staggering, its front legs folding. It's a goner. This is a lesson about the savagery of nature.

Let's make a sudden attack on #MosaicMonday with this #emblema from #VillaAdriana! This #mosaic now in the #VaticanMuseums shows how being in the wrong place at the wrong time can really bite you in the hindquarters. #AncientBluesky 🏺

My photo shows a Roman ‘Marine Life’ mosaic from the impluvium (pool for catching rainwater) at the House of the Geometric Mosaics in Pompeii. The mosaic depicts an octopus with its tentacles wrapped around a lobster, surrounded by many different kinds of Mediterranean fish. The octopus is depicted in pale cream and beige tesserae, the lobster in shades of orange, the surrouding fish in a palette of neutral browns, greys, and creams, all set against a black tesserae background

A spectacular googly-eyed octopus does battle with a lobster in this 2,000 year-old Roman mosaic from Pompeii 🐙 🦞

Some fantastic fishy onlookers too!

House of the Geometric Mosaics. On display Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples 📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

#MosaicMonday - The eponymous piece from Casa della Matrona ignota, Pompeii (VI.15.14); discovered #OnThisDay - 6 April 1898: a woman wearing a pearl necklace, with gold and pearl earrings. #Pompeii 🏺

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (124666). Link - mann-napoli.it/mosaici/#gal...

Mosaico de suelo en una casa de Itálica, Sevilla 🇪🇦 España. Finales del siglo II d.C. 📷 A. M.

#MosaicMonday
Mosaico de suelo en una casa de Itálica, Sevilla 🇪🇦 España.
Finales del siglo II d.C.
#Hispania #Roma
#RomanArchaeology
#Archaeology
#AncientBluesky

A roman mosaic in mostly shades of brown featuring 9 panels and a border of stylised waves. Four of the images are head and shoulders shoulder portraits of women who I understand are personifications of the seasons. Each corner panel includes a bird and a stylised image of what I thought might be a jellyfish or medusa but could be something else entirely. The central panel is two men but I’m not certain what they are doing and I can’t find a description.

This is the Mosaic of the Seasons held
in the Palazzo Massimo in Rome. #MosaicMonday My photo.

Cappella Palatina, Palermo, Sicily My photo Sept 2014

Cappella Palatina, Palermo, Sicily My photo Sept 2014

Cappella Palatina, Palermo, Sicily My photo Sept 2014

Cappella Palatina, Palermo, Sicily My photo Sept 2014

For #MosaicMonday I am going back 12 years since I was in Sicily - and would love to return especially to gaze upon the astonishing mosaics in the Cappella Palatina in Palermo.

Eastern Roman Mosaic depicting two gladiators in combat, their names in Greek listed above: Margarites (left) and Hellenikos (right), House of the Gladiators, Kourion, Cyprus. Photo: Carole Raddato #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology #MosaicMonday

The stunning Dolphin mosaic at Fishbourne @romanpalace.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday

Second entry from me for #MosaicMonday. This is the mosaic fragments from the Morants department store in West St, Chichester. (Currently the old House of Fraser store)

First century in date,possibly part of what would have been the Apodyterium (changing room) for the public baths.

For #MosaicMonday This is the David Grieg Mosaic excavated in 1959 at the rear of a premises in East Street, Chichester and now housed in The Novium Museum in Tower Street Chichester.

Conserved originally by the late Margaret Rule, reconserved in 1989.

Probably fourth century in date.

A corner of a Roman mosaic. On the right is a large vine with huge bunches of grapes and a bird perched on one of the branches. A man is moving past the vine towards the left, with his right arm extended in the direction of a large hare which is crouched down, nibbling a shrub. In the foreground and on the left are parts of a delicate scroll border.

For Easter #MosaicMonday, a blissfully unaware bunny in the House of Dionysus at Paphos: look behind you ... !
📷2018 [@simonelliott20.bsky.social - are you there now? Say hello to this one from me.]
#AncientBlueSky 🏺

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Here is the Theotokos (the Virgin Mary & Christ) from the
mosaic of John II Komnenos and
Augusta Eirene in Hagia Sophia.

#Art #History #artwork

#MosaicMonday

1963, a blacksmith discovered a massive, nearly complete #Roman #mosaic at Hinton St Mary in #Dorset. It was considered one of a kind, with a pristine portrait of #Jesus Christ at its center (Constantine has also been suggested).
#Archaeology #art #History

Another #MosaicMonday helping.

This time from #Jerash #Jordan

Roman polychrome mosaic floor from a house in Taranto, End 2nd C to beginning 3rd C AD. It depicts a Satyr and Nymph.
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology
Photo Credit: MARTA/Taranto Archaeological Museum.

The Peacock mosaic from the House of Dionysus at Palaepafos, Cyprus for #mosaicmonday

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A colorful mosaic of Christ on top and some christianity scenes below on the outerwall of a gothc cathedral

Here's a muscular Christ on the wall of Saint Vitus Cathedral of Prague for #MosaicMonday

Earliest depiction of St Ambrose in his Milan Basilica, 5th Century...

#MosaicMonday

Part of a damaged Roman mosaic depicting a leopard jumping onto the back of a gazelle running to the right

Nature: red in tooth and claw

A 4th century #Roman mosaic panel depicting a leopard attacking a dorcas gazelle

Photographed at the moment of discovery during excavations at Dewlish by the #Dorset Institute of Higher Education (now Bournemouth University)

© Bill Putnam 1974

#MosaicMonday

A built up floor, for Roman mosaics and other hard floors

and in order:

Opus Scutulatum
Opus Tessallatum
Opus Scutulatum / opus mixtum

#mosaicmonday #romans #rome #history #archaeology #mosaic #romanbluesky

A Roman mosaic, executed in a naïve style. Beneath is either a rabbit or a hare. above is what may be intended to be a dog but the frankly shocking quality of the mosaic means it could be mistaken for an aardvark or anteater.

Hope you had a great weekend.
Help yourself to this Easter bunny being chased by an aardvark.
#MosaicMonday

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For #MosaicMonday here’s a section of the #MadabaMap #Jordan

The Madaba Map is part of a floor mosaic in the church of Saint George in Madaba, Jordan.

It contains the oldest surviving original cartographic depiction of the Holy Land and especially Jerusalem. The map dates to the sixth century AD.

Roman polychrome mosaic floor from a house in Taranto, 2nd century A.D.
In the decorative frame, a pair of Griffins face each other. There’s a large vessel (now damaged) between them.

📸 my own, Taranto Archaeological Museum.
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology