The two famous works of Sosus include:
The Unswept House Asarotos oikos, The Unswept House () depicts the floor of a room covered with the remains of a feast, including fish, fruit and other fragments of food.
Doves Drinking from a Bowl Source: A mosaic from
Hadrian's Villa, now in the
Capitoline Museums, depicts a group of doves on a round bowl. As described by Pliny, one dove is drinking while the others are sunning themselves.
The Doves of Pliny, or the
Capitoline Doves depicts the doves artistically but realistically. The mosaic is made only of cubes of colored marble, without any colored glass as in other mosaics. It was discovered in 1737 during excavations at Hadrian's Villa led by Cardinal
Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti, who thought it was the mosaic that Pliny had described, although other scholars think it is a copy of the original that was made for Hadrian. The Hadrian's villa mosaic has in turn been copied many times in many formats. ==References==