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Fragment of a Mosaic Pavement with Maenad, from the Constantinian Villa at Daphne-Harbie

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This fragmentary mosaic panel likely represents a maenad. The remaining portion of the pavement depicts a female head, tilted to the right, with hair in shades of brown. The figure carries or wears a bundle of flowers in shades of deep purple and pink stone tesserae. Traces of green glass tesserae frame the bouquet. The figure is surrounded by a pointed frame, which when complete would have formed an elliptical shape.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics Excavated from Constantinian Villa (Turkey Hatay) by the Syrian Department of Antiquities (later the Hatay government) and the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and Its Vicinity (1935-1939) dispersed; to Fogg Art Museum 1939. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and its Vicinity
Title: Fragment of a Mosaic Pavement with Maenad, from the Constantinian Villa at Daphne-Harbie
Description:
This fragmentary mosaic panel likely represents a maenad.
The remaining portion of the pavement depicts a female head, tilted to the right, with hair in shades of brown.
The figure carries or wears a bundle of flowers in shades of deep purple and pink stone tesserae.
Traces of green glass tesserae frame the bouquet.
The figure is surrounded by a pointed frame, which when complete would have formed an elliptical shape.

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