Roman Column Pin Badge - Pewter

Product Description: This Roman Column pin badge is made from lead-free pewter and is supplied on a pin with separate clasp. The pin badge is mounted on an information card, which has an image of a Roman mosaic on the front and describes about Roman mosaics on the reverse.

Information: Wealthy Romans lived in houses called villas built from stone and decorated with columns copied from earlier Greek architecture.

The floors of these villas were often richly decorated with mosaics made from stone or glass of different colours known as tesserae. These mosaics usually captured scenes of history and everyday life. Images of animals, birds and creatures from the sea were also used on mosaics. The most popular animals were horses, dogs, lions and elephants; sea creatures were dolphins, fish, octopuses and turtles; birds were owls, peacocks, parrots and ducks.

Many of these creatures were kept as pets, as status symbols or were a delicacy on the dinner table.