Ancient Roman Floor Mosaic of an Octopus and Fishing Boats

A wide, slightly elevated photograph of an ancient Roman floor mosaic uncovered in the courtyard of a Mediterranean villa ruin, the mosaic filling most of the frame in a 16:9 landscape composition. The mosaic shows a lively marine scene made of thousands of small hand-cut stone and glass tesserae: in the center a large octopus in terracotta red and burnt orange with curling tentacles outlined in dark charcoal tiles, its suckers picked out in cream; around it swim striped sea bream, a moray eel, ...