Posted on 03/27/2005 5:12:32 PM PST by nickcarraway
There seesm to have been that lots of construction jobs were available back in the ancient days.
I thought this might interest you.
I thought this might interest you.
Sorry!
fascinating story
tomorrow.
Again, no one thought to bring a camera.
"It's always better to leave something where it is," Musso says.
If the objective of archeology is to expand the knowledge of humanity by studying past human life and culture, the focus ought to be on the former as well as the latter. If the objective is to give people like Musso trips to dig sites, what's the bother? I don't care if educated people dig up nifty stuff if no one else ever gets to see it.
Maybe the Libyans should have preserved it better, or transported it more safely, but their judgment on this issue still seems better than Musso's.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)
somewhat related:
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Bernheze Roman Bronze Hoard from the Netherlands
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From Hand-drag to Jumbo: A Millennium of Dredging
[note: this topic *should* have a post about Drusus' canal near the Rhine mouth, but doesn't]
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Laocoön and His Son
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Romans in China?
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The Romans in Ireland
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Roman roads in Britain
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Posted on 10/16/2004 5:46:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Bump
"Maximus Decimus Meridius" bump.
I would like to attempt something like that. Where do you get the tiles and other supplies?
Hi, FreedomCalls! I hope you don't mind, but I am going to post part of an email I wrote to a friend who was thinking about creating a mosaic for his entryway to his house. Here goes:
As for a primer on how to do it ... well, the best thing you can do is get yourself a good book on the subject! As for it being hard -- in one way it is quite easy, in
another it is very hard. Conceptually there's nothing to it, piece o' cake. Basically, what you do is glue the pieces to a piece of special netting (using water-soluble glue), then when it is all done, you use mastic to
stick the netting and tile down to your base (usually cement board). Let that dry, then grout it. Not hard.
The hard part is twofold: one, marble is much harder to work than tile! It is really, really dense and hard, difficult to cut through. (Though thick porcelain tile can be quite hard also.) Think seriously about whether a thinner tile wouldn't work just as well as marble. Also, if you use tile, you could do part of it in mosaic and part of it, maybe the border, in solid (maybe fancy) tile, and save yourself a lot of work. The second hard part is that
this takes FOREVER! We have been working on this project for months. Every time we have to make a cut on a marble bit, you have to either do it by hand (with one of two different kinds of nippers) or step over to the tile saw.
Then like as not, the cut isn't quite right, so you have to fiddle with it a bit more. You end up making 2 or 3 cuts on a single 1/2" x 1/2" piece! So you can see why this is time-consuming.
If you are a marble tesserae junkie, I'd suggest trying to figure out a pattern that uses as few cuts as possible, maybe a geometric. (Curves in the pattern almost always mean cuts! Try not to use curves, unless they are gradual enough that you won't need cuts.) If you could do a pattern in straight geometric lines, or mostly that, it would take a lot less time, since all you would need to do is glue the bits on place, rather than cutting them first.
Another issue is cost. It has turned out to be a bit on the costly side, since it has taken more marble than I originally figured. I have been afraid to add up all my receipts, but I think the materials have run about $400,
and it is only 40" x 43". I also bought two pairs of nippers at about $20 each, and a small tile saw from Home Depot for about $90. (Of course, the nippers and saw will be used for other projects.) You also need a small file
and an edge smoothing stone. Professionals often use a hardie (a small anvil) and special hammer, but I have not been able to find any locally and was reluctant to order something unless I was sure I would like it.
Where do you get this stuff? Almost any tile store, or over the Internet. Comparison shopping is a must! Also, different stores handle different manufacturers, so colors and sizes can be a bit different. It is all about 3/8" thick, but sizes range from 1/2" to 5/8" square. It is available in polished or tumbled. I chose polished since it has more intense color. Prices can also rise, for seemingly inexplicable reasons. The price has doubled on two of the colors since I started, and no one seems to know why.
I'd suggest trying it on a small scale first, maybe do the top of an end table or cover a terra cotta pot, if you have never done mosaic work at all. I have heard stories from many people now about projects they started and abandoned. I would also suggest making the piece first, and then cutting out the spot for it on your floor last, so that you are not walking around an empty spot on your floor for months on end (as we have been!) OTOH, if you do have the patience, it is certainly rewarding. It makes me so happy when I go out to our garage and see our nearly completed piece. I do think it is beautiful, and it is exactly what I wanted.
FVNNY!
Thanks. I saw a beautiful mosaic in Greece once that I have forever regretted not buying. I didn't want to lug it around and didn't want to spend the moeny and have regretted it ever since.
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