Image: Ophiotaurus Mosaic, Yorkshire Museum, York (Eboracum) (7685065186)
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Description: As well as recording what they observed in nature, classical artists invented fantastical beasts and monsters. The Roman poet Ovid describes a "shocking monster born of Mother Earth, a bull, whose back half was a serpent".
Title: Ophiotaurus Mosaic, Yorkshire Museum, York (Eboracum) (7685065186)
Credit: Ophiotaurus Mosaic, Yorkshire Museum, York (Eboracum) Uploaded by Marcus Cyron
Author: Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany
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