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

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H. 2.625 W. 5.765 Tethys mosaic. Border as on other panels of this series. Fish at lower right: dorsal fins, light blue-grey outlined in grey touched with violet; back, grey touched with violet and barred with black, shading to blue-grey and light blue-grey; upper half of tail, light blue-grey, lower half, grey and violet; black shadow underneath body; gills and mouth, red and dark red glass; black shadow to right of eye; eye ringed with lemon-yellow glass; eye, white, black, light yellow-green glass, light blue-green glass, with lemon-yellow glass pupil. Fish at upper right: dorsal fins and tail, light blue-grey outlined with grey and violet; upper part of body, grey and violet barred with black, shading to brown-grey barred with yellow and shading to yellow-grey; large patch of light blue-grey on upper part of body; along upper part of body is a row of glass squares in dark blue and light blue-green alternately, above which are squares of dark violet glass; head, black at upper edge, shading to grey and light blue-grey; mouth and gill slit in red and in dark red glass; eye ringed with lemon-yellow glass with dark violet glass above; light yellow glass below pupil, which is black glass with lemon-yellow glass center. Fish at upper left: dorsal fins and tail light blue-grey outlined with brown-grey; back outlined in black shading to brown-grey with black bars, which shades to light blue-grey with white highlights; light yellow-grey shadow along belly; black shadow below belly; gill slit and mouth, red; highlights on head, light pink and white; gill fin outlined in black above and dark blue glass below, shading to light blue glass and light blue and grey above eye, which is ringed with black; eye, lemon-yellow glass, light yellow-green glass and yellow-orange glass and white stone with black glass pupil. Two other fish below are similar.

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