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The composition of the Delos mosaics and pavements include simple pebble constructions, chip-pavement made of white marble, ceramic fragments, and pieces of tesserae. [2] [6] [13] The latter falls into two categories: the simpler, tessellated opus tessellatum using large pieces of tesserae, on average eight by eight millimeters, [14] and the finer opus vermiculatum using pieces of tesserae ...
English: Mosaic with pigeons, from Delos Circa 100 BC. Archaeological Museum of Delos. Čeština: Mozaika s holubicemi. Z Délu, kolem roku 100 před n. l ...
English: Large mosaic floor from a house in Delos' "Jewelery Quarter". The central medailon: Athena in golden armour and helmet and Hermes in a chlamys (cloak) and petasos (traveling hat) surround a throning figure that can no longer be identified. Circa 100 BC. Archaeological Museum of Delos.
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Deutsch: Dionysos reitend auf einem Tiger, Fußbodenmosaik aus dem Haus des Dionysos, im Museum von Delos, Kykladen, Griechenland English: A Hellenistic Greek mosaic depicting the god Dionysos as a winged daimon riding on a tiger, from the House of Dionysos at Delos in the South Aegean region of Greece, late 2nd century BC; sources:
In early antiquity, mosaics were formed from naturally formed colored pebbles. By roughly 200 BC cut stone tesserae were being used in Hellenistic-Greek mosaics. For instance, a large body of surviving material from the Hellenistic period can be found in the mosaics of Delos, Greece, dating to the late 2nd century BC.
Mosaics of Delos; S. Stag Hunt Mosaic This page was last edited on 24 August 2017, at 20:35 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
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