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And their names: ΣΜΑΡΑΓΔΙN (Emerald) 🐈and ΩΚΕΑΝΟC (Ocean)! 🐕🐾🏛️

Details from a 1,800-year-old mosaic discovered in Adramyttium (Αδραμύττιοv/ Edremit‎‎/ https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550403) bring to light precious insights into the life of its different inhabitants and their close connection.

https://hispanatolia.com/en/roman-villa-with-mosaics-discovered-in-the-ruins-of-adramytteion-turkey/

#Art #Archaeology #Antiquity #Mosaics #Animalia #Academic #PleiadesGazetteer #GrecoRoman #Adramyttium #Excavation #Apotropaic #RomanVilla #Mediterranean #Histodons #MuratÖgzen #Hellenistic

And their names: ΣΜΑΡΑΓΔΙN (Emerald) 🐈and ΩΚΕΑΝΟC (Ocean)! 🐕🐾🏛️

Details from a 1,800-year-old mosaic discovered in Adramyttium (Αδραμύττιοv/ Edremit‎‎/ https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550403) bring to light precious insights into the life of its different inhabitants and their close connection.

https://hispanatolia.com/en/roman-villa-with-mosaics-discovered-in-the-ruins-of-adramytteion-turkey/

#Art #Archaeology #Antiquity #Mosaics #Animalia #Academic #PleiadesGazetteer #GrecoRoman #Adramyttium #Excavation #Apotropaic #RomanVilla #Mediterranean #Histodons #MuratÖgzen #Hellenistic

And their names: ΣΜΑΡΑΓΔΙN (Emerald) 🐈and ΩΚΕΑΝΟC (Ocean)! 🐕🐾🏛️

Details from a 1,800-year-old mosaic discovered in Adramyttium (Αδραμύττιοv/ Edremit‎‎/ https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550403) bring to light precious insights into the life of its different inhabitants and their close connection.

https://hispanatolia.com/en/roman-villa-with-mosaics-discovered-in-the-ruins-of-adramytteion-turkey/

#Art #Archaeology #Antiquity #Mosaics #Animalia #Academic #PleiadesGazetteer #GrecoRoman #Adramyttium #Excavation #Apotropaic #RomanVilla #Mediterranean #Histodons #MuratÖgzen #Hellenistic

And their names: ΣΜΑΡΑΓΔΙN (Emerald) 🐈and ΩΚΕΑΝΟC (Ocean)! 🐕🐾🏛️

Details from a 1,800-year-old mosaic discovered in Adramyttium (Αδραμύττιοv/ Edremit‎‎/ https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550403) bring to light precious insights into the life of its different inhabitants and their close connection.

https://hispanatolia.com/en/roman-villa-with-mosaics-discovered-in-the-ruins-of-adramytteion-turkey/

#Art #Archaeology #Antiquity #Mosaics #Animalia #Academic #PleiadesGazetteer #GrecoRoman #Adramyttium #Excavation #Apotropaic #RomanVilla #Mediterranean #Histodons #MuratÖgzen #Hellenistic

And their names: ΣΜΑΡΑΓΔΙN (Emerald) 🐈and ΩΚΕΑΝΟC (Ocean)! 🐕🐾🏛️

Details from a 1,800-year-old mosaic discovered in Adramyttium (Αδραμύττιοv/ Edremit‎‎/ https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550403) bring to light precious insights into the life of its different inhabitants and their close connection.

https://hispanatolia.com/en/roman-villa-with-mosaics-discovered-in-the-ruins-of-adramytteion-turkey/

#Art #Archaeology #Antiquity #Mosaics #Animalia #Academic #PleiadesGazetteer #GrecoRoman #Adramyttium #Excavation #Apotropaic #RomanVilla #Mediterranean #Histodons #MuratÖgzen #Hellenistic

🔺️Explore the "Pyramid of Hellinikon" (Πυραμίδα του Ελληνικού), a monument in #Greece, situated along the ancient road to Tegea.
37°35′14″N 22°40′17″E.

Archaeologists have debated its origin and purpose. Although in late antiquity, Pausanias referred to a local "polyandrion"(πολυάνδριον/ collective burial mound), today it is regarded as a fortified watchtower (pyrgion/πυργίον) or a fire-signal tower (fryktoria/φρυκτωρία).

#Architecture #PleiadesGazetteer #Archaeology #Antiquity #pyramid #art

🔺️Explore the "Pyramid of Hellinikon" (Πυραμίδα του Ελληνικού), a monument in #Greece, situated along the ancient road to Tegea.
37°35′14″N 22°40′17″E.

Archaeologists have debated its origin and purpose. Although in late antiquity, Pausanias referred to a local "polyandrion"(πολυάνδριον/ collective burial mound), today it is regarded as a fortified watchtower (pyrgion/πυργίον) or a fire-signal tower (fryktoria/φρυκτωρία).

#Architecture #PleiadesGazetteer #Archaeology #Antiquity #pyramid #art

🔺️Explore the "Pyramid of Hellinikon" (Πυραμίδα του Ελληνικού), a monument in #Greece, situated along the ancient road to Tegea.
37°35′14″N 22°40′17″E.

Archaeologists have debated its origin and purpose. Although in late antiquity, Pausanias referred to a local "polyandrion"(πολυάνδριον/ collective burial mound), today it is regarded as a fortified watchtower (pyrgion/πυργίον) or a fire-signal tower (fryktoria/φρυκτωρία).

#Architecture #PleiadesGazetteer #Archaeology #Antiquity #pyramid #art

🔺️Explore the "Pyramid of Hellinikon" (Πυραμίδα του Ελληνικού), a monument in #Greece, situated along the ancient road to Tegea.
37°35′14″N 22°40′17″E.

Archaeologists have debated its origin and purpose. Although in late antiquity, Pausanias referred to a local "polyandrion"(πολυάνδριον/ collective burial mound), today it is regarded as a fortified watchtower (pyrgion/πυργίον) or a fire-signal tower (fryktoria/φρυκτωρία).

#Architecture #PleiadesGazetteer #Archaeology #Antiquity #pyramid #art

🔺️Explore the "Pyramid of Hellinikon" (Πυραμίδα του Ελληνικού), a monument in #Greece, situated along the ancient road to Tegea.
37°35′14″N 22°40′17″E.

Archaeologists have debated its origin and purpose. Although in late antiquity, Pausanias referred to a local "polyandrion"(πολυάνδριον/ collective burial mound), today it is regarded as a fortified watchtower (pyrgion/πυργίον) or a fire-signal tower (fryktoria/φρυκτωρία).

#Architecture #PleiadesGazetteer #Archaeology #Antiquity #pyramid #art