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View of a detail of the central portion of the Domus mosaic. A "rolling wave" design frames the two doves sitting on a "bath." This "drinking doves" pattern was very common in mosaic floors. The design derives from a paitning by Sosos who was from Pergamon.
Pliny the Elder commented:
"Beautiful are the drinking doves whose head cast a reflection on the water of the cantharus."
