Excavation and mosaic floors of villa.Credit: University of Southern Denmark
Posted on 08/02/2022 12:26:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
...The villa was laid out around two courtyards and the many rooms were adorned with mosaic floors. In addition to geometric patterns, there were also motifs of various mythological figures and scenes taken from Greek mythology; e.g. Princess Europa being abducted by the god Zeus in the form of a bull and Aphrodite at sea in her seashell.
Motifs from the stories of the much younger Roman author Virgil are also represented.
Inscriptions in the floor have revealed that the owner was named Charidemos and that the villa was built in the mid-fifth century.
Mosaic flooring was a costly luxury: expensive raw materials like white, green, black, and other colors of marble had to be transported from distant quarries. Other stone materials, ceramics and glasses also had to be imported...
This conclusion is based on a chemical analysis called inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. With it, the research team has determined the concentrations of no less than 27 elements, some of them all the way down to a concentration of billionths of a gram...
It is of course difficult to extrapolate from only seven glass mosaic tesserae, but the new results fit very well with the picture of Anatolia in late antiquity. As the power of the Roman Empire waned, trade routes were closed or rerouted, which probably led to a shortage of goods in many places—including raw materials for glass production in Anatolia.
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Excavation and mosaic floors of villa.Credit: University of Southern Denmark
Just going to say the concept of recycled is extremely old. The concept of garbage is modern. Of course everything is recycled in ancient times. The coliseum was mostly knocked down to build more modern buildings. Anything that could be reused, was reused.
Maybe we should do that on my driveway!!
Headline: Guy Finds Using Recycled Glass On Driveway Leads To Unforeseen Expenses As Price Of Tires Goes Up With Everything Else
Both set of my grandparents were farm families from Tennessee and Mississippi. When I was a kid I remember pretty much everything on both their farms was made from something that had been recycled. You didn't throw anything away, you figured out something else you could do with it. When a belt became too worn to use as decent clothing it got used to fix a horse bridle, etc.
Eumakadese flooors?
Euwalkondese floors?
Eulayadese floors?
Eulikadese floors??
Euwanadese floors?
Eumopadese floors?
Euwaxadese floors?
Good, good, good, good, good, good, and good.
Too much of. a good thing.
Pompeii - House of the Faun - Echoes of Ancient Rome, Michael Levy
The mosaics and sculptures from House of the Faun in Pompeii.
https://youtu.be/1zGWHMgY4mA
Actually, a lot of digs take place in smelly old garbage dumps. I did a Physics/Art History major and they were digging some old latrine in Philadelphia, as I remember hearing about. Sometimes broken pottery and jewelry is just tossed into a convenient dump.
They had much too much time on their hands.
So econazis destroyed their civilization too.
When mass production, factories, skilled labor (thanks to a plague?) or a large enough market don’t exist, even if you’re rich, you don’t really have the luxury of buying or having new stuff made whenever you need or want it. They didn’t recycle for the same reasons we do.
Exactly right. I was thinking the same thing.
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