Labyrinth mosaic from palace 1, room 1 (removed to museum)
Item
- Object Title
- Labyrinth mosaic from palace 1, room 1 (removed to museum)
- Spatial Coverage
- Site: Felix Romuliana/Gamzigrad
- Modern Country: RS
- Roman Province: Dacia Ripensis
- Identifier
- Set #: Labyrinth mosaic from palace 1, room 1 (removed to museum) (SEEDD Inv. #: ???)
- GPS/Spatial ID#: Zaječar
- Pleiades ID# and Canonical URI
- Source
- Current location relative to findspot: Secondary context
- Findspot Description: Palace 1, room 1
- Medium
- mosaic
- Material
- stone
- Description
- Production Marks: N/A
- Iconography: The main motif is a centralized hexagonal shape, made to look like crenelated walls buit of rectalinear bricks with a gate at each angle. Five of the gates are portrayed closed, while the sixth is open, serving as an entrance into the labyrinth depicted with the walls' interior. This interior design does not constitute a true maze, however, since there are no false turns and instead a single path leads from gate-entrance to end at center. Then corner sections outside the hexagon are decorated with 2 alternating ornaments arranged to match across the diagonal: peltas, and an amphora surrounded on either side by a vine of vegetal growth.
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General Photo: :
See folder "Palace 1, Room 1" - Date
- late 3rd/ early 4th c. CE
- Patron
- presumed imperial
- Subject
- Honorand: imperial
- Scribe
- AHC
- Entered
- 2/19/2018
