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#MosaicMonday - Late Roman Mosaic of the Vine Harvest depicting the transportation of grapes with donkeys after harvesting wine grapes. It was discovered during illegal excavations in the Hassa district of the Hatay Province in Türkiye, an area with a long history of grape… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 
Turkey’s wine heritage dates back nearly 7,000 years. The red grape, Barburi, is unique to the city of Antakya / Hatay region (Türkiye). In 2009 Hatay-based Antioche Winery brought the grape back from the brink of extinction. 🇹🇷🍇🍷 #TurkishWine
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Turkey is among the largest producers of grapes in the world, though many are consumed as table grapes or raisins. Around 30 of Turkey’s 800 indigenous grape varieties are made into wine in commercial quantities. 🇹🇷🍇🍷 #TurkishWine
winemag.com/2022/02/21/tur…
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The Byzantine mosaics of Hosios Loukas are some of the best available anywhere today for the character of a church interior in the first centuries after the end of Iconoclasm that had ravaged the Roman state (8th & 9th c.).
~Mosaic of Saint Paul, 11th c., Greece
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~Mosaic of Saint Paul, 11th c., Greece
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🧵For #MosaicMonday (aka #MillefioriMonday!) it's got to be these: the pyramid mounts from @NT_SuttonHoo. Made of cloisonne goldwork, garnets & coloured glass, these were the first gold artefacts found during the 1939 excavation 1/ britishmuseum.org/collection/obj…
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As shown in #TheDig, they were found by Lily James's character #PeggyPiggott, who was born in Kent in 1912. She was an experienced archeologist when she arrived @NT_SuttonHoo, she had studied @Cambridge_Uni & @UCLarchaeology, directed her own dig & published several papers 2/
Her career spanned 60 yrs & she is recognised for her field methods, research into prehistoric settlements, burial traditions & artefact studies (particularly glass beads). She reconsidered #FigsburyRing & a bequest from her helped us to acquire meadowland around Silbury Hill 3/
