Fragment of floor mosaic depicting Tethys in a marine background
250
Physical Qualities
Stone and lime mortar, 76 1/4 x 53 5/8 x 2 5/16 in. (193.7 x 136.2 x 5.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Antioch Subscription Fund
Object Number
1937.118
Christine Kondoleon, Worcester Art Museum, "Antioch: The Lost Roman City", October 7, 2000-January 7, 2001, no. 39, pp. 59-61, 71, 152-153, ill. ; circulated to Cleveland Museum of Art, March 18-June 3, 2001, and The Baltimore Museum of Art, September 6-December 30, 2001.
Richard Stillwell, ed., "Antioch-on-the Orontes, II, The Excavations, 1932-1936," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938, p. 185, no. 51, pl. 39.
Doro Levi, "Antioch Mosaic Pavements," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947, vol. I, p. 167 ff, pl. IIxxxix.
"Object of the Week," The Baltimore Sun," Aug. 16, 1960, ill.
R. Stead, "Pavements from a Fabled City," "Pharos," Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, Fall/Winter 1964, pp. 5-8.
Don and Patricia Brothwell, "Food in Antiquity" (expanded ed.), Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1969, cover.
Frances F. Jones, 'Antioch Mosaics in Princeton,' "Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University," 40, no. 2 (1981), p. 16 M50.
Sara M. Wages, 'A Note on the Dumbarton Oaks Tethys Mosaic,' "Dumbarton Oaks Papers 40," (1986), pp. 119-128.
Kondoleon, Christine, ed. Antioch: The Lost Ancient City. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press in association with the Worcester Art Museum, 2000, p. 172, ill.
Rogers, Dylan K. and Claire J. Wiess, eds. A Quaint & Curious Volume: Essays in Honor of John J. Dobbins. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2021
On View: Antioch Court
