Mosaic, Empuries Museum, Catalonia, Spain

Partridge taking jewels out of a basket, floor mosaic, 1st century BC, from a bedroom in House no. 1, in the Empuries Museum, near Figueres, on the Costa Brava in Catalonia, Spain. Empuries is an ancient settlement founded in 575 BC by Greek colonists from Phocaea. The town was settled by the Romans from 218 BC and abandoned in the Middle Ages. The site has been undergoing excavation since 1908. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Partridge taking jewels out of a basket, floor mosaic, 1st century BC, from a bedroom in House no. 1, in the Empuries Museum, near Figueres, on the Costa Brava in Catalonia, Spain. Empuries is an ancient settlement founded in 575 BC by Greek colonists from Phocaea. The town was settled by the Romans from 218 BC and abandoned in the Middle Ages. The site has been undergoing excavation since 1908. Picture by Manuel Cohen