Placing bed for the marble chips. Laying the first section of the mosaic floor at the north end. Note the sequence above the main slab: a thin layer of sand, tar paper underbed with wire-mesh, metal strips ... AMS 5016 ... 4 Jul 1956
Commercial Attalos II of Pergamon Conglomerate, Limestone, Pentelic Marble, Hymettian Marble Fully Restored ... Ca. 150 B.C.