Mosaic Art

Creating images and patterns by assembling small pieces of colored stone, glass, or ceramic (tesserae), used for floors and walls.

Core metadata

ID: mosaic_art
Era: Classical
First known date: -750 (decade)
Region: Gordion, Phrygia, Anatolia
Review status: source_checked
Maturity: N/A

Prerequisites

Dependents

Glass Mosaic Tesserae (glass_mosaic_tesserae)

Fields

None.

Node sources

Early Mosaics at Gordion (Penn Museum Expedition Magazine, 1965, museum) • Supports: node
Locator: Penn Museum describes eighth-century BCE Gordion pebble floors and argues mosaic-making was invented and first practiced in Phrygia in the eighth century.

Prerequisite edge evidence

Edge/source evidence summary:

Prerequisite edges: 4
Average edge confidence: 68%
Prerequisite sources: 4
expert_inference: 4

Prerequisite	Type	Confidence	Evidence level	Note	Sources
Masonry (masonry)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Masonry provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	Decision 42 COM 8B.34: Gobekli Tepe (Turkey) (UNESCO World Heritage Centre, 2018, official_agency) • Supports: edge
Glassmaking (glassmaking)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Glassmaking provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	Glass of the Ancient Mediterranean (McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 2013, museum) • Supports: edge
Geometry (geometry)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Geometry provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	Geometry (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2026, textbook) • Supports: edge
Pigment Creation (pigment_creation)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Pigment Creation provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	A 100,000-Year-Old Ochre-Processing Workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa (Science / PubMed, 2011, primary_paper) • Supports: edge

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