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English: A rotated depiction of the upper right section of Mosaic I from the ruins of the Roman villa at Wellow near Bath, Somerset, England, from the figures decorating the margins of Moll's map of "Somerset Shire" (Somerset), the sixth in his Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales...

The illustration is a somewhat garbled reproduction of the drawing of the mosaic in John Aubrey's Monumenta Britannica or the poor copy reprinted in Thomas Gale's 1709 Antonini Iter Britanniarum. Aubrey's own illustration was from William Holder's copy of a draft made by the surveyor Hugh May on site after the mosaic's discovery in the manor of Edward Hungerford in 1683. At the time, most of the mosaic was still buried under several feet of dirt. Aubrey's own drawing showed a central scene with figures and a side panel with a cantharus flanked by multiple birds and, based on similarities between Aubrey's drawing and Orphic mosaics at Littlecote, Woodchester, and Withington, may have been related to the myths concerning Orpheus. Moll's own drawing, however, only has a single large animal and is largely identical to the engraving produced for the Society of Antiquaries of London after Edmund Prideaux's 1737 excavation of the entire mosaic.

Notes: London: Sold by H. Moll over-against Devereux-Court in the Strand; Tho. Bowles, Print and Map-Seller near the Chapter-House in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and J. Bowles Print and Map-Seller over-against Stocks-Market. 1724.