Provenance vs. provenience, what's the difference? April’s theme for #ConnectingCollections explores questions about these terms. Provenance describes the ownership history of an object over time, and provenience refers to an object’s specific documented findspot. This ancient Roman mosaic shows how provenance research leads to new discoveries about the object’s original context. First discovered in 1899, this mosaic was one of three pavements found in a private vineyard in Saint-Romain-en-Gal, a small town in Southern France. Three years later, an additional three mosaics were unearthed nearby, all likely from the same ancient villa. These exciting discoveries were described in local newspapers and in national archaeological reports. Because the mosaics were large and expensive to excavate, most of the floors were reburied. Then, ten years later the site was re-excavated, and the remaining mosaics were sold or eventually donated to local archaeological museums. The Brummer Gallery...