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The Dionysus mosaic is a Roman mosaic, which was found in a Roman villa in Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium.
The mosaic is 70 m² in size and consists of around 1.5 million tesserae of natural stone, glass and clay and probably formed the floor of the villa's largest room. The villa was located in the north-eastern corner of the Roman city of Colonia Agrippenensis, just inside the city wall near the Rhine river.
The house was probably built during the time of Claudius around AD 50 or shortly thereafter. Two phases of expansion may have been around 80 AD during the Flavian dynasty and around 230 AD. .
After the house served as a city villa for over six generations, it was burned down by the Franks in December 355 Anno Domini in connection with an attack on the city.
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