The Excavation of Antioch-on-the-Orontes 1932-1939

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Mosaics See all items with this value

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House of Cilicia (House 1 and Vicinity) See all items with this value

Roman Villa

H. 2.925 W. 1.95. Mosaic pavement of Room 2. For outer and inner borders, see Panel A [crossed out]. Large panel at right and its inner divisions outlined in black. Corner triangles, light grey, each enclosing a smaller triangle outliend in white, then black, with red center containing a horn. Horn, light grey with white highlight and shadows green-grey and black. Perspective treatment of large central lozenge, yellow, enclosing a series of lozenges, the first outlined in white with light grey in lower half and green-grey in upper half; the second, black framing a red center containing two laurel leaf fleurons with lines that repeat the lozenge between them, and in the center an oval ornament like a reel. Leaves and base of each fleuron, yellow with white highlights and black shadow along lower side; stamens, green-grey shading to white with yellow tip, each stamen with a black shadow its entire length. Oval ornament outlined in white, then green-grey with a center of light grey, white, and yellow; shadow beneath, black. For description of two square panels at left, see Panel A of this series.

9/22/1937 See all items with this value

Antioch Museum See all items with this value

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