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The Largest Ever Roman Mosaic Unearthed In Southern Turkey
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<blockquote data-quote="Opmmur" data-source="post: 57674" data-attributes="member: 13"><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Ancient floor mosaic art is dated to the second half of 3rd millennium BC.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Many beautiful examples of mosaic floor have already been found, for example at Hadrian's villa, the mosaics in ancient Pompeii, the villa at Piazza Armerina in Sicily and of course the numerous mosaics at Antioch (3rd Century AD).</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Now, archaeologists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have discovered the largest Roman mosaic ever found in southern Turkey.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">It's a meticulously crafted, 1,600-square-foot work of decorative handiwork built during the region’s imperial zenith.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">"It’s believed to be the largest mosaic of its type in the region and demonstrates the reach and cultural influence of the Roman Empire in the area in the third and fourth centuries A.D.," said Michael Hoff, Hixson-Lied professor of art history at UNL and the director of the excavation.</span></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/romanmosaic011.jpg" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/romanmosaic011.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #ff0000">Click on image to enlarge</span></span></span></p><p><em>Credit: Michael Hoff, University of Nebraska-Lincoln</em></p><p> </p><p>S<span style="font-size: 15px">ince 2005, Hoff's team has been excavating the remains of the ancient city of Antiochia ad Cragum on the southern Turkish coast. Antiochus of Commagene, a client-king of Rome, founded the city in the middle of the first century. "This region is not well understood in terms of history and archeology," Michael Hoff, Hixson-Lied professor of art history at UNL and the director of the excavation said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">"It's not a place in which archaeologists have spent a lot of time, so everything we find adds more evidence to our understanding of this area of the Roman Empire.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Antiochia ad Cragum was an ancient Hellenistic city on Cragus mountain overlooking the Mediterranean coast, in the south coastal region of Asia Minor, south of the central Anatolian plateau.</span></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/romanmosaic010.jpg" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/romanmosaic010.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #ff0000">Click on image to enlarge</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>It's believed to be the largest mosaic of its type, it demonstrates the surprising reach and cultural influence of the Roman Empire in the area during the third and fourth centuries A.D. Credit: Michael Hoff, University of Nebraska-Lincoln</em></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">It had temples, baths, markets and colonnaded streets, and thrived during the empire from an economy focused on agricultural products, especially wine and lumber.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">"It's believed to be the largest mosaic of its type in the region and demonstrates the reach and cultural influence of the Roman Empire in the area in the third and fourth centuries A.D."</span></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/romanmosaic012.jpg" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/romanmosaic012.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #ff0000">Click on image to enlarge</span></span></span></p><p><em>Credit: Michael Hoff, University of Nebraska-Lincoln</em></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Excavation has focused on a third-century imperial temple, and also a colonnaded street lined with shops. In July, the team began to explore the mosaic, which was part of a Roman bath. The decoration consists of large squares, each filled with different colored geometric designs and ornamentation.</span></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/romanmosaic013.jpg" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/romanmosaic013.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #ff0000">Click on image to enlarge</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>Researchers, students and workers spent two months unearthing and cleaning the mosaic this summer. Credit: Michael Hoff, University of Nebraska-Lincoln</em></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">"This would have been a very formal associated pavement attached to the bath," Hoff said. "This is a gorgeous mosaic, and its size is unprecedented" - so large, in fact, that work crews have uncovered only an estimated 40 percent of its total area.</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">"It appears the mosaic served as a forecourt for the adjacent large bath, and that at least on one side, evidence shows there was a roof covering the geometric squares that would have been supported by piers."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">"Those piers' remains are preserved," Prof Hoff said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Meanwhile, the middle of the mosaic was outfitted with a marble-lined, 25-foot-long pool, which would have been uncovered and open to the sun. The other half of the mosaic, adjacent to the bath, has yet to be revealed but is expected to contain the same type of decoration, Hoff said.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Opmmur, post: 57674, member: 13"] [SIZE=4]Ancient floor mosaic art is dated to the second half of 3rd millennium BC.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Many beautiful examples of mosaic floor have already been found, for example at Hadrian's villa, the mosaics in ancient Pompeii, the villa at Piazza Armerina in Sicily and of course the numerous mosaics at Antioch (3rd Century AD).[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Now, archaeologists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have discovered the largest Roman mosaic ever found in southern Turkey.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]It's a meticulously crafted, 1,600-square-foot work of decorative handiwork built during the region’s imperial zenith.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]"It’s believed to be the largest mosaic of its type in the region and demonstrates the reach and cultural influence of the Roman Empire in the area in the third and fourth centuries A.D.," said Michael Hoff, Hixson-Lied professor of art history at UNL and the director of the excavation.[/SIZE] [URL='http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/romanmosaic011.jpg'] [IMG]http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/romanmosaic011.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [SIZE=2][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#ff0000]Click on image to enlarge[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [I]Credit: Michael Hoff, University of Nebraska-Lincoln[/I] S[SIZE=4]ince 2005, Hoff's team has been excavating the remains of the ancient city of Antiochia ad Cragum on the southern Turkish coast. Antiochus of Commagene, a client-king of Rome, founded the city in the middle of the first century. "This region is not well understood in terms of history and archeology," Michael Hoff, Hixson-Lied professor of art history at UNL and the director of the excavation said.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]"It's not a place in which archaeologists have spent a lot of time, so everything we find adds more evidence to our understanding of this area of the Roman Empire.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Antiochia ad Cragum was an ancient Hellenistic city on Cragus mountain overlooking the Mediterranean coast, in the south coastal region of Asia Minor, south of the central Anatolian plateau.[/SIZE] [URL='http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/romanmosaic010.jpg'] [IMG]http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/romanmosaic010.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [SIZE=2][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#ff0000]Click on image to enlarge[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][I]It's believed to be the largest mosaic of its type, it demonstrates the surprising reach and cultural influence of the Roman Empire in the area during the third and fourth centuries A.D. Credit: Michael Hoff, University of Nebraska-Lincoln[/I][/SIZE] [SIZE=4]It had temples, baths, markets and colonnaded streets, and thrived during the empire from an economy focused on agricultural products, especially wine and lumber.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]"It's believed to be the largest mosaic of its type in the region and demonstrates the reach and cultural influence of the Roman Empire in the area in the third and fourth centuries A.D."[/SIZE] [URL='http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/romanmosaic012.jpg'] [IMG]http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/romanmosaic012.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [SIZE=2][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#ff0000]Click on image to enlarge[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [I]Credit: Michael Hoff, University of Nebraska-Lincoln[/I] [SIZE=4]Excavation has focused on a third-century imperial temple, and also a colonnaded street lined with shops. In July, the team began to explore the mosaic, which was part of a Roman bath. The decoration consists of large squares, each filled with different colored geometric designs and ornamentation.[/SIZE] [URL='http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/romanmosaic013.jpg'] [IMG]http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/romanmosaic013.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [SIZE=2][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#ff0000]Click on image to enlarge[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][I]Researchers, students and workers spent two months unearthing and cleaning the mosaic this summer. Credit: Michael Hoff, University of Nebraska-Lincoln[/I][/SIZE] [SIZE=4]"This would have been a very formal associated pavement attached to the bath," Hoff said. "This is a gorgeous mosaic, and its size is unprecedented" - so large, in fact, that work crews have uncovered only an estimated 40 percent of its total area.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]"It appears the mosaic served as a forecourt for the adjacent large bath, and that at least on one side, evidence shows there was a roof covering the geometric squares that would have been supported by piers."[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]"Those piers' remains are preserved," Prof Hoff said.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Meanwhile, the middle of the mosaic was outfitted with a marble-lined, 25-foot-long pool, which would have been uncovered and open to the sun. The other half of the mosaic, adjacent to the bath, has yet to be revealed but is expected to contain the same type of decoration, Hoff said.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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