I just saw this report from the BBC about a Roman temple found in Zippori, Israel. The report mentions in passing that Zippori is famous for its mosaics, and being a sucker for mosaics, I looked for more information. The dig website has a page on mosaics. Another site has more pictures but no explanatory text.
Just to whet your appetite, here is a public domain picture from wikimedia commons:
Bedfordshire, the hay, and the sack
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Inspired by Anatoly Liberman's *Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of
English Idioms* (which I've reviewed for the *International Journal of
Lexicography*...
4 days ago
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