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Mosaic | Rome
141. MOSAIC. Rome.
Fight between a bull and a bear.
Mosaic. Mid-3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 965.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Octagonal Court, Cabinet of Canova (Perseus), 1.
142. MOSAIC. Rome.
A horseman and a bull.
Mosaic. Mid-3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 964.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Octagonal Court, Cabinet of Canova (Perseus), 5.
143. MOSAIC. Rome.
Mosaic emblema with a lion attacking a bull.
118—125 CE.
Inv. No. 421.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Room of the Animals, 138.
144. MOSAIC. Rome.
Mosaic emblema with bucolic landscape.
30—20 BCE.
Inv. No. 423.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Room of the Animals, 152.
145. MOSAIC. Rome.
Detail of the floor mosaic.
3rd century CE.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Round Room, 2.
146. MOSAIC. Rome.
Fight of an elephant with a bull.
3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 1055.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Vestibule of the Bramante Stairway, 6.
147. MOSAIC. Northern Africa.
Female bust.
Mid-2nd century.
PM0403C.
Royal-Athena Galleries.
148. MOSAIC. Northern Africa.
Orpheus playing a lyre.
North Africa, 3rd century.
38 1/8 × 43 3/4 in. (97 × 111 cm.)
DPD03.
Royal-Athena Galleries.
149. MOSAIC. Rome.
June.
Smalt. 3rd century.
Inv. No. E.1096.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
150. MOSAIC. Rome.
June.
Smalt. 3rd century.
Inv. No. E.1096.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
151. MOSAIC. Rome.
Hylas and Nymphs (perspective view).
Marble, glass, terracotta.
Late 3rd — early 4th cent. CE.
Inv. No. E. 1914.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
152. MOSAIC. Rome.
Attributes of Heracles.
Marble, smalt.
Late 1st — early 2nd century.
Inv. No. E.3133.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
153. MOSAIC. Rome.
Hesiod. Mosaic by Monnus.
4th cent. CE.
Trier (Augusta Treverorum), Rhenish State Museum.
154. MOSAIC. Rome.
Vergilius. Mosaic by Monnus.
4th cent. CE.
Trier (Augusta Treverorum), Rhenish State Museum.
155. MOSAIC. Rome.
Triumph of Neptune.
Mid-2nd century.
Tunis, National Museum of Bardo.
156. MOSAIC. Northern Africa.
Vergil holding the scroll with text of “Aeneid” seated between the muses of history (Clio) and tragedy (Melpomene).
Mosaic.
3rd century.
Inv. No. A 266.
Tunis, National Museum of Bardo.
157. MOSAIC. Rome.
Amorous scene.
Mosaic. Roman. 2nd century CE.
Inv. No. II 9.
Vienna, Museum of Art History.
158. MOSAIC. Rome.
Mosaic with the image of a vase and dolphins.
4th century.
Wiltshire.