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The museum's Mosaic Collection includes a number of important mosaics recovered from the ruins of Pompeii and the other Vesuvian cities. This includes the Alexander Mosaic, dating from c. 100 BC, originally from the House of the Faun in Pompeii. It depicts a battle between the armies of Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia. Another ...
Plato's Academy mosaic is a free standing mosaic panel found in the villa of T. Siminius Stephanus in Pompeii. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is roughly a square, 86 cm x 85 cm, and can be seen presently at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples , where it is kept as item MANN 124545 .
Sculptures in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples (18 P) Pages in category "Collection of the National Archaeological Museum, Naples" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
A mosaic from the floor of an ancient Roman villa has been uncovered on the seabed in the waters off Naples.. Now underwater, the marble floor would originally have been located in the “protiro ...
The mosaic is considered Roman based on the broader context of its time and location in relation to the later Roman Republic. [1] The original is preserved in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples. The mosaic is believed to be a copy of a late 4th or early 3rd-century BC Hellenistic painting, perhaps by Philoxenus of Eretria or Apelles. [3]
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The most notable of the artworks found in the House of the Faun is the Alexander Mosaic; a reconstructed version of the mosaic can be seen today, but it was originally removed from the floor where it was found and placed in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. [9]
Naples (Italy) and its immediate surroundings preserve an archaeological heritage of inestimable value and among the best in the world. For example, the archaeological park of the Phlegraean Fields (Cumae, Baiae, the Flavian Amphitheatre and the Pozzuoli forum) is directly connected to the centre of Naples through the Cumana railway, and the nearby sites of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae and ...