Military Camp or Villa

[Musivarius]

I don't want to take this off topic too much but just looking at the 2 websites above have prompted me to point out a couple of things, hopefully to give a little more information out to anyone contemplating buying a copy of a Roman mosaic. There are certain rules to the way the Romans set the tesserae for their mosaics, ignore these and you have a modern mosaic, contemporary mosaic follows no rules therefore it cannot be criticized. The mosaics from the company in the Lebanon are very nice and a fantastic price for the work put in, but they can only be classified as contemporary works. As for the other company, if you use 10mm machine cut cubes the end result is a very 'flat' piece of work,( I know I've tried it) the slight variation in size is what sets it out look as a Roman piece looks.
I don't say this to try to sell my work to anyone here just to help people understand what the difference is between a modern copy of a Roman mosaic and a modern mosaic. If anyone wants me to bore them to death on the difference I'd be happy to post it up.
Lawrence