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

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H. 1.65. W. 1.625. Mosaic pavement: "Personification of month" Outer border, black. Border of black indented diamonds, each enclosing a small brown diamond with a single white tessera in center. Inner frame, black. Emblema, month: figure wearing grey cloak with white highlights and touched on the right side with dark red; inner border marked by lines of black, red, pink stones, and dark blue glass; tunic, light red with white highlights and violet-red shadows; garment visible at neck, white with ochre piping and grey shadow; on head, a pink cap outlined in dark red with a bunch of dark green leaves on each side; hair, violet; face and neck outlined in grey with strong shadows of dark red, grey, and brown, touches of pink flesh tones, and white highlights; the pupil of one eye black, the other red; arms, modelled in dark red and pink with brown shadow; left hand holding a flower of dark green and blue glass; legs outlined in grey and dark red with black and brown shadow and pink flesh tones; toes of left foot separated with black. Cast shadows, grey. Pedestal at right, grey with white highlight. Vase on pedestal and that held in figure's right hand, have a plant of dark green and grey, and are outlined in light and dark grey, and brown, with shadows red and brown grading, through yellow, to pink and white highlights.

5/26/1939
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