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Summary

Title Mosaico de la Batalla de Issos.
Description Mosaico que representa la batalla de Alejandro Magno contra Darío (III) el Grande, posiblemente en la Batalla de Issos o batalla de Gaugamela, tal vez después de una pintura anterior griega de Philoxenus de Eretria. Este mosaico fue hallado en Pompeya, en la Casa del Fauno y se encuentra ahora en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Nápoles). Es del siglo I aC.
Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples)
Source/Photographer http://alexandermosaik.de/en/reconstruction_of_the_mosaic.html

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