Rare Illustration of Roman Huntress Identified - Archaeology Magazine

Rare Illustration of Roman Huntress Identified - Archaeology Magazine

Section of the mosaic showing the leopard and the woman BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA—Sports researcher Alfonso Mañas of the University of California, Berkeley, examined an illustration of a third-century a.d. Roman mosaic discovered in 1860 in Reims, France, by archaeologist Jean Charles Loriquet, according to a Live Science report. Most of the mosaic was destroyed by bombing during World War I, but Loriquet’s illustration of the artifact survived in hi…