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Nile mosaic (Palestrina)

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Uniform title headingNile mosaic (Palestrina)
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Variant(s)Barberini mosaic (Palestrina)
Nilotic mosaic (Palestrina)
Palestrina mosaic
Found inAllied bombing of central Italy, 2024: CIP t.p. (Nile Mosaic) galley (Nile Mosaic, a first century BCE portrayal of Nile River life; the Barberini succeeded them by purchasing the princely title and the town, along with the Nile Mosaic, its greatest treasure)
Art full text, Apr. 13, 2023 (subjects: Nile mosaic (Palestrina); abstract: late-second-century-BCE so-called Nile Mosaic)
Bryn Mawr classical review (via Internet), Apr. 23, 1999 (great Nilotic Mosaic from Palestrina)
   <https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/1999/1999.04.23>
Oxford art online, Apr. 13, 2023 (famous Nile (or Barberini) mosaic (4.31x5.85 m; Palestrina, Pal. Barberini); the Nile mosaic is the earliest and the most elaborate example of an Egyptian scene in Roman Italy)
   <https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T069176>
Wikipedia, Apr. 13, 2023 (The Palestrina Mosaic or Nile mosaic of Palestrina is a late Hellenistic floor mosaic depicting the Nile in its passage from the Blue Nile to the Mediterranean. The mosaic was part of a Classical sanctuary-grotto in Palestrina, a town east of Ancient Rome)
Woltmann, A. History of painting (via Google books), 1880: v. 1, p. 97 (the Nile mosaic discovered at Palestrina, and still preserved there)
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