Roman Mosaic: Did you mean...?

Mosaics are designs and images created using small pieces (tesserae) of stone or other materials which have been used to decorate floors, walls, ceilings, and precious objects since before written records began. Like pottery, mosaics have...

Roman mosaic of the Evil Eye from Antioch. The eye is pierced by a trident and sword, pecked by a raven, barked at by a dog, and attacked by a centipede, scorpion, cat, and snake. A horned dwarf with a gigantic phallus crosses two sticks...

Mosaic fragment of St. Joseph done by an artist in Rome, Italy. Tesserae and stone, c. 600-725 CE. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)

Roman mosaic from Veii (Isola Farnese, Italy) depicting an African elephant being loaded onto a ship, 3rd-4th century CE. Now in Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Germany.

Coloured stone Roman mosaic flooring from Mediolanum (modern Milan), 2nd to 3rd century CE. (Archaeological Museum, Milan)

This mosaic is made of limestone and marble, and it dates from the 4th century CE. It was found at Quintana del Marco (León), Spain. (Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid)

This mosaic is made from limestone and marble, and it dates from the 4th century CE. It was found at Quintana del Marco (León), Spain. (Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid)

This scene is part of the Nile mosaic of Palestrina (c. 100 BCE), found in Palestrina, Italy. It portrays a group of Ptolemaic Greek soldiers in Egypt on the banks of the Nile. The soldiers are clad in typical Hellenistic equipment including...

This mosaic from the Antakya Archaeological Museum, Hatay Province, Turkey dates to the 2nd Century CE and depicts a black African fisherman.

A Roman mosaic of Euterpe, the Muse of lyric poetry, from Tarraco. 2nd century CE. (Archaeological Museum, Tarragona, Spain)