Stunning 2200-Year-Old Mosaics Discovered in Ancient Greek City

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Three new mosaics were recently discovered in the ancient Greek city of Zeugma, which is located in the present-day province of Gaziantep in southern Turkey. The incredibly well-preserved mosaics date back to 2nd century BC.

Zeugma was considered one of the most important centers of the Eastern Roman Empire and the ancient city has provided a treasure trove of discoveries with 2000-3000 houses in remarkably good condition. Excavations at Zeugma started in 2007 and continue to this day.

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1. Fantastic!

What craftsmanship.

[woodsprite]

2. Thanks for posting! I love mosaics!

My daughter spent several weeks in Italy over the past two years learning how to excavate, move, reassemble, and preserve ancient mosaics (dated about 300 BC). She loved it and now would like to make that her specialty - archaeological art conservation. So many places where that would be needed don't let women do the work on the objects or even let them walk into the buildings. I kind of keep hoping she'll rethink what she wants to specialize in.

[OxQQme]

3. Learned something new today -- Zuegma

A zeugma is a literary term for using one word to modify two other words, in two different ways. An example of a zeugma is, “She broke his car and his heart.”
When you use one word to link two thoughts, you're using a zeugma. Some literary experts distinguish a zeugma from a syllepsis by insisting that in a zeugma, only one of the two thoughts should make literal or grammatical sense. For example, you could use the zeugma, "I lost my keys and my temper." In Greek, zeugma means "a yoking," as in yoking one word to two ideas.

Or, "Let's take a famous example from Star Trek: The Next Generation: "You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit."

[NJCher]

5. now I'll be thinking of zeugmas all day

and check to be sure I don't construct syllepses.


Cher

[woodsprite]

4. OMG! just showed this to my daughter

She said it's the group she worked for that's doing the lead on this excavation!

Cool!

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