Why Elite Romans Decorated Their Floors With Garbage
This mosaic is trash.
Why Elite Romans Decorated Their Floors With Garbage
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A close up of the Profane Museum s unswept room mosaic in the Vatican. DeAgostini/Getty Images
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In the Vatican’s Profane Museum, there’s one artifact that looks out of place among the ornate sarcophagi and marble statues: a mosaic floor that seems to be covered in the picked-over refuse of a meal.
When you first look down at the mosaic, it looks like the kitchen trash tipped over: Nutshells, olive pits, fruit rinds, and grape stems are strewn about. But if you look closer, the food scraps dissolve into chunks of stone and chips of glass. It’s a
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St Stephen s School in Rome gets major donation for Classics
25 May, 2021
Lyceum academic programme to be named after retired Classics teacher at St Stephen s School.
St Stephen’s in Rome has received a major donation in support of the school s Lyceum programme which offers students International Baccalaureate courses in Classical Greek and Latin languages as well as Classical Greek and Roman studies.
A group of alumni, parents and former staff members have pledged $675,000 towards the signature project in what is the biggest contribution to an academic programme in the history of St Stephen’s, an
American international school located near the Circus Maximus in the
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The discovery was made in 2014 during works to earthquake-proof the foundations of the 1950s-era building not far from the Circus Maximus. AFP
Ancient Roman ‘domus’ with mosaic floors tucked right under modern flats
Thu, 13 May 2021
It doesn t look like much from the outside, but a building in central Rome holds a hidden treasure in the basement: the remains of a Roman era home, including elaborate mosaics.
At the entrance of the 1950s building at the foot of Rome’s Aventine Hill, all appears normal, with a resident loaded with shopping bags kindly holding the door.
But venture a bit further, and down a short flight of stairs one arrives at the prize, hiding behind an ordinary grey metal door.