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

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House 1 Room 3

H 2.875 W 2.858 Erotes fishing mosaic. Crowstep borders, black and yellow, one on each side of a border edged in red and containing a red meander enclosing squares and rectangles outlined in black, filled with yellow, with a black center. Emblema border black. Scene of Erotes riding dolphins and fishing. Flesh of Erotes, light grey, greyish tan, pale violet, and pink with pinkish white highlights and shadows dark grey and dark violet; touches of yellow and brown on faces. Hair, dark grey-violet, dark red, and brown with yellow and white highlights. Wings in two shades of grey-blue glass with the top of the wing edged in yellow glass or yellow glass and brown limestone. Fishing poles, brown or yellow with grey lines. Dolphins: back outlined in black or dark olive green; bodies modelled in dark and light emerald green glass, bright blue, pale blue, and two shades of blue-grey glass, with bellies of light grey or green-grey limestone; mouths, red and pink; fins below mouths in various combinations of black, dark violet, dark red-violet, dark olive green, greys, and greyish violet; tail fins in dark violet-grey, dark olive green, and black or dark violet-grey, dark red, and black; eyes encircled with black, or black, dark olive green, and dark violet, filled with various combinations of glass in orange, lemon-yellow, two shades of blue, and white, and limestone in dark red. Other fish modelled in great variety of colors, in combinations of black, greys, dark violets, browns, olive green, reds, pinks, yellow, tan, pinkish white and white limestone, and glass in very dark blue, grey-blues, bright blue, bluish white, white, emerald greens, lemon-yellow, orange, red, and yellow-green. Ground, white.

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