A woman's head, turned in three-quarter view, glows against a black ground scattered with lilies, hyacinths and bellflowers. Set from unworked river pebbles in the later fourth century BCE, the elliptical floor lay in a private house in Epidamnos, now Durrës. Austro-Hungarian engineers uncovered it during the First World War, and it is the oldest important mosaic found in Albania.
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A single small yellow and red pebble in her pupil gives the eye its gaze. Her auburn braids are set off from the black ground by a thin white outline.
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