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Where can large Roman black-and-white floor mosaics be seen at Ostia?
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Mosaic floor fragment from a synagogue or church, cut stone with mortar from Israel, late 5th–6th century ce; in the Jewish Museum, New York City.
At Ostia, the best-preserved examples of large Roman black-and-white monochrome mosaics can be found in the floors of the city's baths and the courtyards of warehouses dating from the 1st to the 3rd century CE.1