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New mosaic discovered in Amphipolis - Vindex - 10-12-2014
...and it's a beauty!
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/10/12/stunning-mosaic-floor-revealed-in-amphipolis-tomb/
New mosaic discovered in Amphipolis - Gunthamund Hasding - 10-13-2014
beauty doesn't make it right, I have no words to describe this
Thanks a lot hope to see shortly also better quality images
New mosaic discovered in Amphipolis - markusaurelius - 10-13-2014
Wow. Fantastic
New mosaic discovered in Amphipolis - Vindex - 10-13-2014
Some other images - including a close up of Hermes in the mosaic here
New mosaic discovered in Amphipolis - Eleatic Guest - 10-14-2014
It is not a real mosaic in the common style, a tesserae mosaic, but one composed of peebles, that is the early form. This helps establishing a terminus ante quem, while the stone barrel-vault which came into use not before the late 4th century BC gives a terminus post quem.