mosaic floor
Pieced stone pavement
A mosaic floor is a floor surface decorated with small pieces of colored stone, glass, or tile arranged to form patterns or images.
The technique dates to antiquity—Roman villas often featured elaborate mosaic floors depicting mythological scenes.
Modern mosaic floors appear in churches, museums, and upscale homes: The entryway's mosaic floor showed a compass rose.
- tilesFlat covering pieces
- tesseraeMosaic's constituent pieces
- groutTile joint filler
- RomanOf ancient Italy's capital
- ancient RomeEarly Italian empire city
Byzantine · pattern · villa · atrium · ancient · archaeological dig · inlay · marble · glass · stone · geometric · figurative · dolphins · sea creatures · borders · opus · excavation · piecing together
- FreemasonryMason, Masons, Freemasons, Freemasonry, lodge
- Roman ArchitectureColosseum, Pantheon, forum, aqueduct, amphitheater
- Roman Tombssarcophagus, sarcophagi, mausoleum, catacomb, catacombs
- archaeologyexcavation, dig site, archaeologist, dig, archaeological digs
- ancient architectureziggurat, ziggurats, pyramids, temples, temple
- courtyardsatrium, quad, courtyard, quadrangle, central court
material composition
mosaic floorbare concrete
carpet · wall-to-wall carpet · dirt floor · earthen floor · rubber flooring
aesthetic elaboration
mosaic floorbare concrete