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Fragment of floor mosaic depicting a peddler of Erotes
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Fragment of floor mosaic depicting a peddler of Erotes

201

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Fragment of floor mosaic depicting a peddler of Erotes

201

Physical Qualities Stone, glass, and lime mortar, 87 x 97 1/2 x 2 in. (221 x 247.7 x 5.1 cm.)
Credit Line Antioch Subscription Fund
Object Number 1937.128
C. R. Morey, Museum Quarterly II, BMA, 1937-1938, no. 4, p. 4.
"Antioch-on-the Orontes, II, The Excavations, 1932-1936," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938, no. 64, pp. 189-190, pl. 48.
C.R. Morey, "The Mosaics of Antioch," Longmans, Green & Co., 1938, p. 32, pl. VII.
Doro Levi, "Antioch Mosaic Pavements," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947, vol. I, pp. 191-193, fig. 71, vol. II, pl. XLIII-a.
R. Stead, "Pavements from a Fabled City," "Pharos," Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, Fall/Winter 1964, pp. 5-8.
Panosky, Erwin. Essais d'iconologie: Themes humanistes dans l'art de la Renaissance. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 2021
Valladares, Hérica. (Translated from English by Philippe Hunt). "Comment peindre une ekphrasis? L'offrand à Vénus de Titien et les limites de la description." La Part de l'Oeil 37 (2023): 82-109. ill. p. 90.

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