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Mosaic with Alexander the Great as a boy

Mosaic, 4th century B.C. From Baalbek, Lebanon National Museum of Beirut Alexander the Great as a boy with a Nymph This Mosaic from Baalbek-Soueidie shows the newborn Alexander the Great being bathed in a circular fluted basin by a female figure labelled ‘Nymphe’, while his mother Olympias reclines on a bed watched by an attendant. […]



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