Currently not on view
Mosaic: discus thrower,
early 3rd century CE
Roman
y1965-214
Information
Title
Mosaic: discus thrower
Dates
early 3rd century CE
Medium
Stone
Dimensions
h. 187.0 cm., w. 157.5 cm., d. 13.0 cm. (73 5/8 x 62 x 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch
Object Number
y1965-214
Place Excavated
Turkey, Seleucia
Culture
Period
Excavated by the Princeton-led team at Antioch-on-the-Orontes, present-day Antakya, Turkey, 1931-1939; with the Museum since 1939
- Richard Stillwell, ed., Antioch-on-the-Orontes III: the excavations 1937–1939, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1941)., cat. no. 83; pl. 30
- Doro Levi, Antioch mosaic pavements, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1947).
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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.
, p. 2–26