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Greek Mosaics: A Postscript

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Martin Robertson
Martin Robertson
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These notes supplement and correct my article ‘Greek Mosaics’ in JHS lxxxv (1965) 72–89 (hereafter GM).

I. Additions:

Miss Elizabeth Ramsden, who is making a corpus of Roman mosaics in Greece, has drawn my attention to three important pebble-mosaics omitted from my survey. I am most grateful to her for this, and for permission to use her descriptions and photographs, reproduced in plates XXIII and XXIV. I am also very grateful to Professor Orlandos for permission to publish the photographs of the mosaic in Sicyon, no. 1; and to the late Dr. N. Verdelis for permission to publish those of the fragment in Athens, no 3. I know these two floors only from photographs and descriptions; nos. 2 and 4 only from the publications.

1. Sicyon Museum, from Sicyon (Kiaton). Found by Professor Orlandos in 1940 and published by him in Praktika 1941, fig. 6 (see also BCH 1940/1 241, fig. 7). Here, plate XXIV. 2.80 × 2.80 m (without entry-panel); blue-black and white pebbles, with a few red.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 87 , November 1967 , pp. 133 - 136
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1967

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1 ARV 2 1319 nos. 2 and 3; CB iii pls. 83–7, pp. 103–5 with refs. and discussion. Deianira's out-stretched right hand corresponds almost exactly in position to the left hand of the centaur in the mosaic. Pirithous, in the groups on the exteriors of the cups, pulls back the centaur's head by the hair, and the figure is much like that of Herakles here, except that he thrusts down with a spit instead of swinging a club; but the centaur there resists, clutching with both hands at the hero's left arm.

2 idemet lacunaria primus pingere instituit, nec camaras ante eum taliter adornan mos fuit. NH xxxv 124; Overbeck 1760; GM 83 and 85.

3 Both are in fact made of three pebbles; but Gnosis uses five for the first upright, the craftsman of the Athenian pavement only four.

4 Mr. Fraser also tells me that he thinks the lettering of Sophilos' Alexandria mosaic dates it in the second century B.C. (GM 88).

5 See Petsas, in MGR (below III, 1), 48Google Scholar; also III, 4.