Photo: Antakya Archaeological Museum
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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 provides a guided tour from one to the other. This scene is near the start of the tour, on the left side of the border. It shows Antioch along a main colonnaded street. On the left of this portion of the mosaic is the entrance to a house, with grilled windows on either side of the door. Next to the house, a servant steadies a bundle balanced on his head and carries a basket in his left hand. Next, in front of a two-story café with an open balcony on the upper floor, a reclining patron accepts refreshment offered by a servant. A porter carries a rolled carpet or bundle of wood from the direction of a two-story building with a colonnade across the lower story. 450-75 AD, Yakto village near Daphne. Antakya Museum, inv. 1016. Photo © Dick Osseman. Information from Glanville Downey, Ancient Antioch (1963), illustration 48.
Date: 3/18/04 3:43 PM
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