Portrait of a woman
Name for small pieces of stone, glass or marble.
Tessarae
King Darius III
The name of the warm room in the bath house?
tepidarium
The name of the tiered seating
Cavea
What is Terentius Nero holding?
A papyrus scroll with a wax seal and red ribbon
English translation of Opus vermiculatum
worm like
Which battle does the mosaic portray?
The Battle of Issus in 333 BC
The name of the cold room in the bath house?
Frigidarium
Built around this year?
70 BC
What is his wife holding?
A wooden wax writing tablet (diptych) in her left hand and a stylus used for writing and smoothing over the wax in right hand.
Place in Egypt where mummy portraits found.
Fayum
What artwork is the mosaic said to have been based on?
An earlier Greek painting which is now lost, from the 5th or 4th century BC.
The name of the heating system in the bath house?
The hypocaust
The name of the awning or shade to protect spectators from the sun and perhaps the rain?
Velarium
What profession was Terentius Nero
A lawyer.
The general name for a prefabricated mosaic made in a workshop and set into a panel.
emblemata
What name is given to the cavalry that Alexander is leading, having charged across the river and breaking through the Persian lines?
Companion cavalry.
The name of the changing room?
Apodyterium
The spectators rioted with this group during the gladiatorial games.
Nucerians
What size is the wall painting?
58 cm by 65 cm.
Shadow under the women's chin gives a sense of what?
depth or volume.
To the nearest 100,000 how many tesserae were used in the mosaic?
about 2 million
The exercise area in the bath house.
The palaestra
Another name for early amphitheatres.
Spectacula
Why do the couple have slightly uneasy expressions?
Perhaps the name has a humble background - a Samnite - and wearing the toga is an attempt to hide these origins.