Скачать или смотреть Archeological description Palace of Theodoric

On the first floor of the building, hidden by the mullioned window visible from the Via di Roma, one third of the floor mosaics recovered during the excavations of 1908-14 are exhibited. It is a truly extraordinary complex that traces six centuries of history.
You can see floor fragments in opus sectile of polychrome marble (I-II century AD) coming from the representative rooms of the palatium (apsidal room and triconch), fragments of figured mosaic floor (V century AD) coming from the corridors surrounding the peristyle and mainly representing scenes of circus games, floor fragments (6th century and Theoderician age) decorated with geometric, phytomorphic or floral motifs which, having remained in use longer even after the abandonment of the palace and the dissolution of the Exarchate, survive the next decadence of the executive quality of the 7th century Ravenna mosaic workers.