tessera

Converse of object

• use: The tiles and ceramic tesserae used in the mosaics were made at the factory, but the deep red tesserae were imported.
• stick: Students will be taught how to design, choose color, lay and stick tesserae.
• place: You place tesserae of the desired color in the spaces, cutting and fitting smaller shapes if neccessary.
• call: A piece of a Roman mosaic was called a tessera.
• make: By the end of the 3rd century BC mosaics with pebbles were being replaced by those with tesserae made from stone and glass.

Adjective modifier

• small: The small tesserae found in the filling would have related to the mosaic decoration of the dome.
• large: The outer border is as elsewhere, set with the larger tesserae, within which the main decorative panel was placed.
• red: The tiles and ceramic tesserae used in the mosaics were made at the factory, but the deep red tesserae were imported.
• vitreous: They were made in vitreous glass tesserae, using the reverse method, by Greenwich Mural Workshop.
• ceramic: The tiles and ceramic tesserae used in the mosaics were made at the factory, but the deep red tesserae were imported.
• fine: The first border in finer tesserae is of blue triangles set in light gray.

Noun used with modifier

• glass: The Venus head was flanked by peacocks, the colors of which were enhanced by the use of glass tesserae.
• mosaic: No laid tesserae were found, but many loose ones and some small mosaic tesserae.
• marble: We obtained colored marble tesserae and technical advice from the Mosaic Workshop in London.
• terracotta: There was a central corridor with a floor made of red terracotta tesserae and inlaid mosaic panels.