Hercules Mosaic Floor Paper Bookmark

$1.00 at The Getty Museum.

This bookmark features a detail from the magnificent opus sectile in the Getty Villa's 'Temple of Hercules.' The mosaic reproduces a first century pavement from the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum. Decorating a scenic pavilion overlooking the Bay of Naples, the original Roman floor was the first architectural feature discovered by workers excavating a well in 1750. Its geometric pattern of concentric circles of triangles is composed of yellow giallo antico and dark gray africano marbles, with dark green…