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Mosaic

Images or patterns composed of small, regularly shaped pieces of durable material, usually stone or colored glass.

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Ancient and Byzantine mosaic materials

Mosaics in the early Islamic world

Works of Art

House of Neptune and Amphitrite at Herculaneum

before 79 C.E.

Icon with the Virgin Hodegetria Dexiokratousa

first quarter of 13th century

Santa Pudenziana

4th century C.E.

Standard of Ur and other objects from the Royal Graves

c. 2600–2400 B.C.E.

Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome

c. 5th century and 13th century

San Vitale and the Justinian and Theodora Mosaics

begun c. 526–527

begun c. 526–27, consecrated 547, with later restorations

540s

Mosaic decoration at the Hammath Tiberias synagogue

286–337 C.E.

Baths of Caracalla

212–235 C.E.

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