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Fragment of floor mosaic depicting dancing boy

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Fragment of floor mosaic depicting dancing boy

Fragment of floor mosaic depicting dancing boy

Fragment of floor mosaic depicting dancing boy

301-400

Physical Qualities Stone and lime mortar, 49 x 24 in. (124.5 x 60.9 cm.); weight: 410 lbs.
Credit Line Antioch Subscription Fund
Object Number 1938.711
Bacchus was the Roman god of wine and merriment, whom the Greeks call Dionysos. In this mosaic, Bacchus dances, raising a shepherd's staff overhead, and twists his body to conform to the space of the elliptical frame. His head is wreathed with large, spiky leaves, and his robust, sunburned body is covered by a spotted panther skin. When Bacchus travels, panthers or tigers pull his chariot.
"Antioch-on-the Orontes, II, The Excavations, 1932-1936," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938, no. 87, p. 200, pl. 67.
Doro Levi, "Antioch Mosaic Pavements," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947, vol. I, p. 244f, vol. II, pl. LVIII-b
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