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There has been much discussion about the age of the Nile Mosaic and of the building that it was a part of. In his comprehensive study, Meyboom has argued that the forum complex of Praeneste was built between 125 and 120 BCE.[3] After the complex was completed, it was time to provide it with decorations. Meyboom assumes the Nile Mosaic and its companion piece, the Fish Mosaic, were made between 120 and 110 BCE.[4] There is now a general consensus that the mosaic was indeed made towards the end of the second century BCE, although even in modern publications, we sometimes find a later date. In their Arms and Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier, published in 2009, Summer and D’Amato argue that the Nile Mosaic was made in ca. 30 BCE and identify the soldiers in the lower part of the mosaic as praetorians in the Roman army.[5] This makes no sense, as the men carry arms and armour that are clearly Hellenistic (see below). To conclude, we should accept a dating of ca. 120-110 BCE and discard any theory that argues that the mosaic depicts a visit of Romans such as Caesar, Augustus, Agrippa or even the emperor Hadrianus to Egypt.

 

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  4)Dutch archaeologist Paul Meyboom’s 1995 dissertation The Nile Mosaic of Palestrina. Early Evidence of Egyptian Religion in Italy.[1] The mosaic was featured in Italy Unpacked, Series 2, Episode 3 (“A Home away From Rome”; the Palestrina part starts around 25:20)
 [5] Arms and Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier, p. 205.