Details on an archway
A big jumble of antiquities just lying there. If we had a backpack...
Hermes
A youth leading a goat to slaughter
Doreen with Hermes
The Roman Road.
This is where the pedestrian part of the road started. The Chariots could not get through that gate. It is Hercules on both sides
Greek writing
Mosaic floor
Honorary Building. It really was a building, it was just built to honor someone
The Biggest jigsaw puzzle in the world! These guys are putting together tiny pieces of marble to recreat these homes that were destroyed by an earthquake in the 4th century AD
This piece of marble was put together from its shattered remains. Many of the pieces are under 1“ across.
Another piece of busted and reassembled marble.
Some wall frescos
Detail of the wall frescos
Moving the marble! Be very careful...
Pots, in situ
Socrates!
A floor mosaic. all these recent photos were private (rich people's) homes. They have been compared to Pompeii and Herculaneum in Italy.
FLoor mosaic in place
More mosaics. There were seven homes total here, on three levels
More frescos
Close up of a dove (pigeon?) fresco
Fish fresco
The spa
View of the restoration
Bath frescos. One of the guards kept grabbing my camera and snapping photos. He knew what he was doing, though. He took this photo
The Steam Room. Those are chairs. We saw similar seating in the the recently uncovered Roman ruins in Sobesos.
More mosaics
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