Recent renovations in the palace of the Bishop, on the hill of Oria have revealed some remains of a magnificent proto-Hellenistic building, including a figured pebble mosaic with the attack of the lion to the deer. The mosaic was made with imported materials. Its high style finds comparison only in Greece with the mosaic of the Hellenistic palaces in Athens, Eretria, Corinth and especially in Pella in Macedonia. W e can assume that it was done in the last third of the fourth century by Greek artists as part of a massive building located on the acropolis of the Messapian city. The presence at Oria of a pebble mosaic of an artistic level unparalleled in Southern Italy can be compared to what we read in Strabo (6, 3, 6) about the existence in ...
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Ejemplar dedicado a: Sacralidad y Arqueología: homenaje al profesor Thilo Ulbert al cumplir 65 años[...
In the transition to the Hellenistic Period, Greece was under the rule of the Macedonian leader, Ale...
International audienceThe corpus of mosaics from the Porta Marina Baths at Ostia is characterized by...
A review ofthe main Systems of decoration found in urban contexts or in villas of the four cities of...
The oldest residential area of Syracuse is located in Ortigia, in the center of the island the excav...
During the older excavation of Messene by Anastasios Orlandos a quite original smaller than life-siz...
During the last campaign in the site of Campo della Fiera, in Orvieto, new tessellated floors were b...
Restoration work in 2004 on the pavement of the temple of Despoina at Lykosoura by the E'Ephorate at...
Si presenta una starordinaria scoperta sull'acropoli di Oria: un mosaico policromo che rinvia al lav...
A triclinium mosaic that was found in 1862 in Portus Magnus near Oran in Algeria, has been and still...
De l'Hellespont à Rhodes et à la Lycie, les cités antiques d'Asie Mineure Occidentale, grecques ou h...
Many Roman mosaics have been preserved in Volubilis, including this sumptuous villa mosaic of the my...
ill.International audienceThe marble pediments of Athena Aphaea's temple at Aegina preserved in the ...
Henri Lavagne, Une peinture romaine oubliée : le paysage du nymphée découvert au palais Barberini en...
Many Roman mosaics have been preserved in Volubilis including this sumptuous villa mosaic of the myt...
Ejemplar dedicado a: Sacralidad y Arqueología: homenaje al profesor Thilo Ulbert al cumplir 65 años[...
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International audienceThe corpus of mosaics from the Porta Marina Baths at Ostia is characterized by...