c325-M167e

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c325-M167e

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House of the Mysteries of Isis

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House 2

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H. 1.95 W. 1.485 Geometric mosaic pavement of Room 3. Outer border at bottom, red. Border panel has a black border with a row of yellow, indented diamonds. Field, white, enclosing a lozenge edged in red with a yellowish red filling containing a circle outlined in black, then white, with a red center inscribed with a diamond outlined in white with a light grey center. Upper panel with red border enclosing an all-over pattern of rows of circles inscribed with a four-pointed star with a square in the middle, and smaller squares in each of the four sections of the circle outside the star. Circles alternately red and black four-pointed stars, yellow with a square of dark blue glass. The red circles have small squares of light grey glass in their sections, the black circles, squares of light blue glass. Between the rows of circles are small grey squares in a white space the shape of a four-pointed star, which gives the effect of the circles intersecting with the star in the center and the four sections of the circle, red and black, with the small squares of light grey and light blue glass.

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Princeton University

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