Can anyone tell me what these three mosaics are made out of?

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Can anyone tell me what these three mosaics are made out of?home theater

tile/glass

the last one is set in cement which is why it looks so stone-like

Can anyone tell me what these three mosaics are made out of?comedy club opera theater

The first one is too small to tell.

The second one is a tile mosaic.

The third one looks like colored stones (not tile).
1. This (I quote ) is a polychrome pebble mosaics at Pella in Macedonia, dating from about 300 bc, are excellent examples of the use of subtle variations in the colour of water-polished stones to create beautiful figural compositions, often depicting light figures against a dark background, delineated by either lead or ceramic stripsSee paragraph starting In Crete and on the Greek mainland http://uk.encarta.msn.com/text_761575462...

2 - Roman mosaic from Fishbourne Palace, England - made from tesserae in process Romans called Opus tessellatum - see http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-905...

3. From Corfu - Byzantine - During the Byzantine Era, mosaics made from pieces of marble, natural stones, colored glass, even gold and silver. The backgrounds in their mosaics were often gold glass tesserae

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