Mosaic, Empuries Museum, Empuries, Catalonia, Spain
Tragic theatre mask, mosaic, 1st century BC, from the bedroom of house 1 in Empuries, in the Empuries Museum, or Museo de Arqueologia de Cataluna - Empuries (MAC), near Figueres, on the Costa Brava in Catalonia, Spain. Empuries is an ancient settlement founded in 575 BC by Greek colonists from Phocaea. The town was settled by the Romans from 218 BC and abandoned in the Middle Ages. The site has been undergoing excavation since 1908. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
14117021
Media ID
45919690
Size
5191px x 5315px
(16.1MB)
Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
Date
2009
