Fragment of floor mosaic depiciting Europa and the bull

201

Scroll

201

Physical Qualities Stone, glass, and lime mortar, 61 x 75 in. (155 x 190.5 cm.); weight: 1593.75 lbs.

Credit Line Antioch Subscription Fund

Object Number 1937.129

"Antioch-on-the Orontes, II, The Excavations, 1932-1936," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938, no. 46, p. 183, pl. 33c.

Doro Levi, "Antioch Mosaic Pavements," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947, p. 167ff, pl. XXXVa-b.

R. Stead, "Pavements from a Fabled City," "Pharos," Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, Fall/Winter 1964, pp. 5-8.

Rogers, Dylan K. and Claire J. Wiess, eds. A Quaint & Curious Volume: Essays in Honor of John J. Dobbins. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2021

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