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Zeugma Mandala

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A beautiful Roman mosaic floor created over 2,000 years ago in the ancient city of Zeugma, Türkiye, a major eastern frontier city of the Roman Empire. It can be viewed at the Gaziantep Zeugma Mosaic Museum. The mosaics found in the Roman houses at Zeugma, thought to have been founded by a general in Alexander the Great’s army, date to the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE, depict scenes from Greek and Greco-Roman mythologies and popular novels, some with captions in Greek. Archaeological finds from the sanctuaries of Zeugma show that the city played a key role in Antiochus’ efforts to link the Greek and Persian cultural spheres, in accordance with the kingdom’s key position between these two worlds, on the Euphrates. Photo by Zeugma Mosaic
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