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Part of the border of the Megalopsychia Hunt Mosaic, which depicts a "day in the life" of fifth-century Antioch and Daphne and provided a guided tour from one to the other. This section of the border is along the bottom as you face the Megalopsychia, as here (it would be upside down to the viewer).
This portion of the tour is in Daphne, the resort suburb of Antioch. The buildings are three villas bearing the names of their masters (Maieourinos, Heliades and Leontois), suggesting that the owner of this mosaic instructed the artist to include the residences of special friends. A man and a small boy stand next to the first villa, possibly Maieourinos and his son.
The third villa is seen fully in the next photo.
450-75 AD, Yakto village near Daphne. Antakya Museum, inv. 1016. Photo © Dick Osseman. Information from Glanville Downey, Ancient Antioch (1963), illustration 56.
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