In the late 2nd century CE floor mosaic from El Djem, Roman Thysdrus, he is identifiable as Apollo Helios by his effulgent halo, though now even a god's divine nakedness is concealed by his cloak, a mark of increasing conventions of modesty in the later Empire.

File: Mosaic2-plw. jpg | Room 49-Hinton St Mary Mosaic, Roman Britain, circa 4th century ( one of the earliest representations of Christ and the only such portrait on a mosaic floor from anywhere in the Roman Empire )

The Gladiator Mosaic in the Galleria Borghese displays several gladiator types, and the Bignor Roman Villa mosaic from Provincial Britain shows Cupids as gladiators.

Homer in the company of Calliope, the Muse of epic poetry ( replica of Roman Empire | Roman Imperial mosaic, c. 240 AD, from Vichten )

Ancient Rome | Roman mosaic picturing Theseus and the Minotaur.

The labyrinth retains its connection with death and a triumphant return: at Hadrumentum in North Africa ( now Sousse ), a Roman family tomb has a fourfold labyrinth mosaic floor with a dying minotaur in the center and a mosaic inscription: " Enclosed here, he loses life " ( Kern 169 ; Kerényi fig. 31 ).

File: Conímbriga minotauro. jpg | Minotaur in Labyrinth — a Roman mosaic at Conímbriga, Portugal

Roman trireme mosaic from Carthage, Bardo Museum, Tunis.

Satyr pursuing a nymph, on a Roman mosaic

Until the early 20th century, the chief ancient buildings at Sparta were the theatre, of which, however, little showed above ground except portions of the retaining walls ; the so-called Tomb of Leonidas, a quadrangular building, perhaps a temple, constructed of immense blocks of stone and containing two chambers ; the foundation of an ancient bridge over the Eurotas ; the ruins of a circular structure ; some remains of late Roman fortifications ; several brick buildings and mosaic pavements.

Late Roman owners of villae had luxuries like hypocaust-heated rooms with mosaic floors.

Paschal died soon afterwards, but the Roman Curia refused him the honour of burial within St. Peter's Basilica, and he was buried in the basilica of Santa Prassede, which includes the famous Episcopa Theodora mosaic of his mother.

The chief monuments, of which the ruins are still extant within the circuit of the walls, are: the theatre, of which the remains are in imperfect condition, but sufficient to show that it was not of large size, and apparently of Roman construction, or at least, like that of Tauromenium, rebuilt in Roman times upon the Greek foundations ; a large edifice with two handsome stone arches, commonly called a Gymnasium, but the real purpose of which is very difficult to determine ; several other edifices of Roman times, but of wholly uncertain character, a mosaic pavement, and some Roman tombs.

Roman mosaic: Odysseus and the Sirens ( Bardo National Museum )

There are a few remains of the Roman city visible, such as parts of the city walls, a hypocaust still in situ under a mosaic floor and a theatre, which is on land belonging to the Earl of Verulam-as well as items in the Museum ( below ).

Euterpe on the replica of the Roman mosaic in Vichten

The Roman mosaic artist Giacomo Raffaelli made another life-sized copy ( 1809 – 1814 ) in the Viennese Minoritenkirche.

There are baths, public latrines ( for 44 users ), various little bits of mosaic, a harbour wall, a Hellenistic and Roman agora and a temple of Zeus that had the right to grant asylum.

Roman mosaic, 3rd century AD.

There is a mosaic in Paphos, Cyprus, from a Roman villa from the mid 2nd century a. d. which is called " Dionysus House ".

In Roman Britain, the mosaic floor of a villa at Woodchester bore the reminder Worship Bonus Eventus duly.

An example of those are the remains of a villa in the Quirinal gardens, where a mosaic, part of the old floor has been found.

The grand villa at Woodchester preserved its mosaic floors when the Anglo-Saxon parish church was built ( not by chance ) upon its site.

In particular, archaeological digs have revealed the remains of a large Roman villa with a well-preserved mosaic on the playing fields of St Laurence School.

Keynsham Clock TowerEvidence of occupation dates back to prehistoric times, and the town site is scattered with Roman remains, such as the Roman villas at Somerdale which were discovered during the construction of the factory in 1922, and included the discovery of two stone coffins, a villa with nine intact panels of mosaic flooring at Durley Hill and a burial site between Keynsham and Saltford.

Just nearby, Pliny the Younger built his villa in Tuscis, which is identified with walls, mosaic floors and marble fragments surviving at a place now called Colle Plinio, the " Hill of Pliny ".

Excavations at the Roman villa at Caer Mead have revealed that this area was occupied during Roman times for around 350 years ; its bathrooms and the mosaic pavements date from the mid 2nd century AD.

Fine mosaic floors a notable feature of the villa.

A Roman villa was discovered in East Coker in the 18th century and subsequent excavation has discovered artefacts including a mosaic, however further work is needed to fully identify the plan of the building.

In the second century, when Herodes Atticus recast an inherited villa nearby as a great landscaped estate, the natural grotto was formalized as an arched interior with an apsidal end where a statue of Egeria once stood in a niche ; the surfaces were enriched with revetments of green and white marble facings and green porphyry flooring and friezes of mosaic.

The use of uranium glass dates back to at least 79 AD, the date of a mosaic containing yellow glass with 1 % uranium oxide found in a Roman villa on Cape Posillipo in the Bay of Naples, Italy by R. T. Gunther of the University of Oxford in 1912.

A Roman villa was excavated near Batemoor Barn early in the twentieth century and an extensive mosaic documented.

In the summer of 1736 a Romano-British villa was discovered when tesserae from a large mosaic pavement were uncovered during ploughing.

* Remains of a Roman villa at Toscolano, with some mosaic pavements

As the historical novelist Clive Ashman so vividly puts it in “ MOSAIC – the Pavement that Walked ” ( Voreda Books ) his fictionalised account of not only the true-life, 1948 theft of a Roman mosaic from Brough, but also the original fate of the Roman villa it came from ( and of the Ala Picentiana itself ): “ As for the glorious Ala traceable back to Julius Caesar ’ s Gallic Wars, it is an inevitable truth that hundreds of years later there came one final day when its men rode jingling out of Derventio fort, never to be seen there again .”

The villa is in the traditional form of a triclinium ; seats would have been arranged in a U-shape around the mosaic, Roman villa mosaic floor and people would have reclined while dining and drinking, talking and contemplating the mosaic images.

A Roman building considered to be a temple or a basilican villa was unearthed in 1823, which contained a mosaic depicting Bacchus seated on a tiger.

The rich archeological finds prove strong sea links with Greece and the Hellenistic world: recent explorations revealed a rarity, a very well preserved Byzantine mosaic on the floor of a Roman villa.

Another haloed Apollo in mosaic, from Hadrumentum, is in the museum at Sousse.

Triumph of Dionysus on a fragmentary Roman mosaic ( 3rd century, Sousse Archaeological Museum )

The mosaic, which dates from the 3rd Century AD, was discovered in the Hadrumetum in Sousse, Tunisia and is now on display in the Bardo Museum in Tunis, Tunisia.