TY - JOUR TT - Floral and Geometrical Motives of the Pavement Mosaics in East and West. The Example of the Roman Villa of Abicada AU - Duran Kremer, Maria de Jesus PY - 2012 DA - December JF - Journal of Mosaic Research JO - JMR PB - Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 1309-047X SP - 59 EP - 70 IS - 5 KW - Mosaics KW - decorative discourse KW - influences KW - east and west KW - floral and geometrical motives N2 - Even if the figurative mosaics are usually the ones to catch the attention of the archeologists and the public, we cannot deny the meaning of the geometrical and the floral motives for the study of the mosaics landscape in the roman world. The combination of the different motives, the colors chosen for each motive and their combination can help to identify the influences that determined the making of the pavements. East and West of the Roman Empire are no exceptions to this phenomenon UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/jmr/issue//306262 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/294063 ER -