SEEDD

Labyrinth mosaic from palace 1, room 1 (removed to museum)

Site: Felix Romuliana/Gamzigrad

Modern Country: RS

Roman Province: Dacia Ripensis

Set #: Labyrinth mosaic from palace 1, room 1 (removed to museum) (SEEDD Inv. #: ???)

GPS/Spatial ID#: Zaječar

Current location relative to findspot: Secondary context

Findspot Description: Palace 1, room 1

mosaic

stone

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.

General Photo: :
See folder "Palace 1, Room 1"

late 3rd/ early 4th c. CE

presumed imperial

Honorand: imperial

AHC

2/19/2018