A recently-revealed mosaic from Adramytteion includes, among its fifteen panels, depictions of a cat labelled ‘Emerald’ (ΖΜΑΡΑΓΔΙΝ) and a dog named ‘Ocean’ (ΩΚΕΑΝΟΣ) which sre naturally presumed to be pets of whoever commissioned the mosaic. The work is dated to the late second/early third cnturies CE. RANDOM NOTES QUELLEN

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