What Is Personification in the Mosaics?

Three mosaics were found in a house in shaba, philipopolus. Mosaics are an imported art to this region and they are expensive. The way that i read them, from the archaeological report, as well as the kinds of gestures and movements that the figures in each of the mosaics demonstrate or represent, it seems that they are tied together in a narrative tha they were meant to be read collectively. And you also write the figures in the mosaics are personifications of certain things. Could you define personification for sure? Yet?

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