Paphos - Roman mosaics (around 300-400 A.D.) [280°]

©polytropos, on August 29, 2007, said:

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petercurry, on August 29, 2007, said:

Nice, picture!!!

Tony Reid, on June 25, 2008, said:

How old are these mosaics?

©polytropos, on June 25, 2008, said:

@ Toni Reid. At the roman period Paphos was the capital of Cyprus. The town is divided in an upper town and a lower town. There were settlements in several periods.

It's said that somewhere in the 60's a farmer found in the lower town (Kato Paphos) this mosaics while he was ploughing the fields by accident. Archeologists date them to the 3nd/4th century AD. Today the imposing mosaics of Aion, Orpheus, Herakles, Dionysos and others are sheltered by wooden roofs.