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

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H 2.71 W 2.14 Mosaic pavement of corridor in front of apse. "Ge and Karpoi" Inscribed: [GREEK] For description of interlaces, see Panels a-c, e-g of this series. Wavecrest border, dark grey and white. Dentil border, dark red and white. Outer border of emblema, dark grey; inner border, black. Ground, white. Bust of Ge in pale tan circular medallion: hair, violet and dark red shaded in black. Wreath, light grey-green leaves outlined in dark green and black; flowers, pale pink and pale yellow with a pinkish white center. Face outlined in grey-brown and filled in with flesh tones of white, pink, pale tan, and grey-brown; eyes ringed in grey-brown shadow; eyebrows and upper eyelids, black; line of violet shadow above each eyebrow and eyelid, and along left side of nose; highlight on upper eyelids, pink; eyes filled with pale pink and white, the irises violet, pupils black, mouth, pink and dark red with a touch of black between lips; tips of ears visible on both sides of head, pink; earrings, grey-brown loops with a single white tessera as pendant; neck, white at her right, shading through pale yellow to dark grey-brown at her left, with horizontal stripes of light grey; flesh of arm and breast, dark pink shading to white with pale yellow and pale tan shadows. Serpent around neck: line of back, black; body, mottled dark red and dark grey with dark grey-brown belly and a single white tessera for eye. Under-tunic, white shading through pale tan to light grey folds. Drapery over shoulder, pink with dark red folds and a blue-violet outline around shoulder. Cornucopias are in browns with pale yellow highlights and line of black along rim. Fruit, pale yellow; leaves, dark green shaded in black. Karpoi: flesh outlined in dark violet-red and grey-brown, filled in with pale tan and pink shading to white: faces outlined in grey-brown; necks in grey-brown shadow; features outlined in violet; pupils, black; hair, dark violet and light grey-brown. Tunics, light grey and pale tan mottled with pink, highlights, white. Mantles, dark red-violet and dark blue-violet with black shadows.

7/25/1939
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