The House of the Faun contained the Alexander Mosaic, depicting the Battle ofGaugamela in 331 BC or Issus in 333 BC between Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia.
See:
- Heinrich Fuhrmann, Philoxenos von Eretria: Archaologische Untersuchungen uber zwei Alexandermosaike, Gottingen, 1931
- Nancy Thomson de Grummond, Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology,Routledge 2015
- Tomasz Polański, The Last Achaemenid Army in the Crucial Struggle for Iran and the Persian Gulf in the Graeco-Roman Iconography, in: Collection of Papers pesented to The Third Biennial International Conference of the Persian Gulf (History, Culture and Civilisation), Univeristy of Teheran Press 2013, pp. 447-465
