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Fragment of floor mosaic depicting a dancing maenad
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Fragment of floor mosaic depicting a dancing maenad

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Fragment of floor mosaic depicting a dancing maenad

100

Physical Qualities Stone, glass, lime mortar, 74 1/2 x 44 1/2 x 3 in. (189.2 x 113 x 7.6 cm.)
Credit Line Antioch Subscription Fund
Object Number 1933.52.1
Christine Kondoleon, Worcester Art Museum, "Antioch: The Lost Roman City," October 7, 2000-January 7, 2001, no. 56, p. 62, ill.; circulated to Cleveland Museum of Art, March 18-June 3, 2001, and The Baltimore Museum of Art, September 6-December 30, 2001.
George W. Elderkin, ed., "Antioch-on-the-Orontes I: The Excavations of 1932," Princeton: The Princeton University Press, 1934, p. 42ff and pl. VI.
C.R. Morey, "The Mosaics of Antioch," Longmans, Green & Co., 1938, pp. 27-28, pl. III
Doro Levi, "Antioch Mosaic Pavements," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947, vol. I, pp. 21-23 & 519; vol. II, pl. CXLVII-b.
R. Stead, 'Pavements from a Fabled City,' "Pharos," Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, Fall/Winter 1964, pp. 5-8.
Sheila Campbell, ed., "The Mosaics of Antioch," Toronto, 1988, pp. 21-22, pl. 74.
Kondoleon, Christine, ed. Antioch: The Lost Ancient City. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press in association with the Worcester Art Museum, 2000. pp 170-171, ill.

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