Roma, May 25th,2025.
Acquedotto Alessandrino e Parco Sangalli
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Roman Late Republican period, ca. 80 BCE
From Praeneste (see on Pleiades), Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia (A HREF="https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/7963799">Pleiades), apsidal hall; detached in the early 17th c., by the 18th c. in the collection of W. von Bayreuth; passed by inheritance to Kaiser Friedrich II
The scene, detached from the much larger mosaic still in Palestrina, is interpreted as a ritual banquet in honor of the flooding of the Nile.
Phototographed at, and in the collection of, the Altes Museum, Berlin
Antikensammlung Inv. Mos 3
id.smb.museum/object/697090/szene-aus-dem-nilmosaik-von-p...
Roman Late Republican period, ca. 80 BCE
From Praeneste (see on Pleiades), Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia (A HREF="https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/7963799">Pleiades), apsidal hall; detached in the early 17th c., by the 18th c. in the collection of W. von Bayreuth; passed by inheritance to Kaiser Friedrich II
The scene, detached from the much larger mosaic still in Palestrina, is interpreted as a ritual banquet in honor of the flooding of the Nile.
Phototographed at, and in the collection of, the Altes Museum, Berlin
Antikensammlung Inv. Mos 3
id.smb.museum/object/697090/szene-aus-dem-nilmosaik-von-p...
Roman Late Republican period, ca. 80 BCE
From Praeneste (see on Pleiades), Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia (A HREF="https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/7963799">Pleiades), apsidal hall; detached in the early 17th c., by the 18th c. in the collection of W. von Bayreuth; passed by inheritance to Kaiser Friedrich II
The scene, detached from the much larger mosaic still in Palestrina, is interpreted as a ritual banquet in honor of the flooding of the Nile.
Phototographed at, and in the collection of, the Altes Museum, Berlin
Antikensammlung Inv. Mos 3
id.smb.museum/object/697090/szene-aus-dem-nilmosaik-von-p...
Roman Imperial period, ca. 2nd c. CE
From Bologna (see Felsina/Bononia on Pleiades)
In the collection of, and photographed on display at, the Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna, Italy