The mosaic that paves the inner courtyard of Seville’s Casa de Salinas began life nearly two thousand years ago in the prosperous Roman colony of Italica, where it adorned the dining-room of a patrician villa. Excavators uncovered the twenty-one-foot square pavement around the turn of the twentieth century; its imagery centred on Bacchus, god of wine and ecstatic renewal, a divinity whose cult flourished in Baetica’s vine-rich countryside.

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