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Where were some of the earliest known pebble mosaic floors discovered?
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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.
The earliest known pebble mosaic floors were discovered in Asia Minor, specifically in the town of Gordion (near modern-day Ankara, Turkey). These floors, which date back to the 8th and 7th centuries BCE, featured primitive geometric patterns created by arranging light-colored pebbles against a background of darker stones set in a basic mortar.12
This technique eventually spread throughout the Greek-speaking world, with significant examples later found in northern Greece at Olynthus and Pella, as well as in Sicily and on the Crimean Peninsula.13