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

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House of the Drinking Contest
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House 1. Room 1.

Geometric panels of mosaic of "Drinking Contest" Outer border, black. Border of geometric panel and divisions of design within black. Elaborate design in great variety of colors composed of diamonds, squares, triangles, rectangles, elongated hexagons, and equal-armed crosses composed of lozenges, each unit of design containing a separate motif such as rainbows, interlaces, pelta-like ornaments, indented diamonds, square shaded cubes and cylindrical cubes in perspective, stylized floral motif, circle intersected by a curlicew, crosses, four-pointed stars, quatrefoils whose leaves overlap at the top, shaded and superimposed hexafoils, small circles formed and linked by an interlace around a central circle, checkerboards, interlacing squares around a circle etc. Colors: red, yellow, black and white limestone; glass in orange, red, dark emerald green, light green, yellow-green, very dark blue-green, light and dark blue, bluish white and grey-blue.

7/31/1939
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