Guard Dog

Floor Mosaic

Pompeii, 1st century AD

IMAGE: WolfgangReiger

just ran across this perfect 2000-year-old portrait of a pet who knows what he did.

"Dog Mosaic," Ptolemaic period, 2nd century BCE, floor of a house in Alexandria, Egypt. 3.25x3.25m. (Pitcher is probably gold.)

Magnificent Roman floor mosaic of the Villa Romana del casale in Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Italy.

#TilesOnTuesday + #TwoForTuesday:

195 & 318 “Blue Jay”

another pair from the ongoing search for all the animals from the 420 original 1906 Moravian tile mosaics by Henry Mercer on the Pennsylvania Capitol floor.

~ Floor mosaic of circus charioteer with a horse.

Date: First half of the 3rd century

Place of origin: From a cubiculum of the Severan villa in Baccano on XVI mile of via Cassia.

Provinience: Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme (Roma, Museo nazionale romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme).

A massive floor mosaic from the thermal baths of the Seven Wise Men at Ostia Antica, Lazio, ITALY

Floor mosaic of Dionysos riding on a panther, 120—80 BCE, House of the Masks on the island of Delos, Greece.

[Scott Horton]

"The illusion that you could get someone else to do it for you. To think for you. Even though the great emotions, the great truths, were universal; even though the mind of humanity was ultimately one mind, still, each and every single individual had to establish his or her own special, personal, particular, unique, direct, one-to-one, hands-on relationship with reality, with the universe, with the Divine. It might be a pain in the ass, it might be, most of all, lonely - but it was the bottom line. It was as different for everybody as it was the same, so everybody had to take control of their own life, define their own death, and construct their own salvation. And when you finished, you didn't call the Messiah. He'd call you."

- Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

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Floor mosaic in the House of Orpheus in ancient Roman city of Volubilis. Morocco.

Ibex near a Tree

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic: Ibex near a Tree, 400s. Byzantium, Northern Syria, Byzantine period, 5th century.

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MWW Artwork of the Day (9/28/22) Byzantium (c. 350-1453 CE) The Personification of Ktisis (c. 500–550 CE) Marble & glass fragment of floor mosaic, 151.1 x 199.7 x 2.5 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

This monumental bust of a richly bejeweled lady who wears large pearls in her ears, a necklace of delicate stones about her throat, and two brooches—one clasping her yellow mantle and another at the tie of her dress—is an example of the exceptional mosaics created throughout the Early Byzantine world in the first half of the sixth century. Both her elaborate diadem and the neckline of her dress are bordered with alternating black and white tesserae meant to suggest pearls. The addition of blue glass to represent sapphires, or "hyacinths," among the red and green glass gemstones on the mosaic is characteristic of sixth-century Byzantine taste.  The rod that she holds, the measuring tool for the Roman foot, identifies her as a personification of the abstract concept of "Ktisis," or Foundation, and symbolizes the donation, or foundation, of a building.

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Today’s Flickr photo with the most hits: this mosaic roundel. Part of the decorative floor mosaics in the east range of the the Roman villa at Piazza Armerina, Sicily. 

I like to think she’s canoodling with the delivery boy. 

Bathroom - Farmhouse Bathroom

Inspiration for a small farmhouse kids' white tile and ceramic tile ceramic tile bathroom remodel with a drop-in sink, white cabinets, wood countertops and gray walls

Dionysos riding on a panther. Floor mosaic. Ca. 120—80 BC. Delos, House of the Masks

✨Pretty floor mosaics✨

Bathroom - Kids Inspiration for a small cottage kids' white tile and ceramic tile ceramic tile bathroom remodel with a drop-in sink, white cabinets, wood countertops and gray walls