
The Many Different Mosaic Materials & Types of Tesserae
The word “tessares,” meaning four, is thought to originate from the Greeks and eventually became “tessera” in Latin. A tessera, to the Romans, was a 4-sided tablet made of wood, stone, or bone and it was used for a variety of purposes, from ticketing to identification. Tesserae, the plural of tessera, thus was an appropriate […]
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