Currently not on view
Mosaic pavement: Menander, Glykera, Spirit of Comedy (Komodia),
late 3rd century CE
Roman
y1940-435
Information
Title
Mosaic pavement: Menander, Glykera, Spirit of Comedy (Komodia)
Dates
late 3rd century CE
Medium
Stone
Dimensions
h. 225.0 cm., w. 135.0 cm., d. 11.1 cm. (88 9/16 x 53 1/8 x 4 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch to Princeton University
Object Number
y1940-435
Place Excavated
Turkey, Daphne Harbie
Culture
Period
Subject
Excavated by the Princeton-led team at Antioch-on-the-Orontes, present-day Antakya, Turkey, 1931-1939; with the Museum since 1939
- Doro Levi, Antioch mosaic pavements, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1947).
- Margarete Beiber, The History of Greek and Roman Theatre (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961)
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Frances F. Jones, "Antioch mosaics in Princeton", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 40, no. 2 (1981): p. 2–26.
, fig. 16, p. 9 (illus) - T. B. L. Webster, Monuments illustrating new comedy, (London: Institute of Classical Studies, University of London School of Advanced Study, 1995)., p. 381, no. 4XT3a, pl. 49
- J. Michael Padgett, "The collections of ancient art: the early years," in "An art nuseum for Princeton: the early years", special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 55, no. 1/2, (1996): p. 107-124., p. 113, fig. 6
- Clifford Ashby, Classical Greek theatre: new views on an old subject, (Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1999)
- Fatih Cimok, Antioch Mosaics: A Corpus (Istanbul:A Turizm Yayinlari, 2000), p. 180-181
- Sebastiana Nervegna, Menander in antiquity: the contexts of reception, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013)., frontispiece and vii (illus.)
