Mosaic of Alexander the Great
This mosaic depicting Alexander’s victory over the Persian king Darius III at the battle of Issus in 333 BCE was discovered in the 1830s in the House of the Faun in Pompeii. This house is thought to have been constructed soon after the Roman conquest of Pompeii as a residence for a member of the Roman ruling class. The piece contains more than one million mosaic
stones.
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Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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