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Mosaic Floor with Diana and Callisto Surrounded by Hunt Scenes, Villelaure, France, Gallo-Roman, 3rd century CE, that I photographed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, California. The central element of this mosaic depicts the nymph Callisto and Diana, the virgin goddess of the hunt. Callisto broke the vow of Diana’s followers to remain chaste and was seduced by Jupiter. Here Diana discovers Callisto’s pregnancy. The mosaic was found in the ruins of an ancient villa (the Villa Laura) in sourthern France, then province of the Roman Empire, near the present-day French town of Villelaure. |