On view
Sueyun & Gene Locks Gallery
Mosaic pavement: head of Medusa,
late 2nd century CE
Roman
y1965-212
Information
Title
Mosaic pavement: head of Medusa
Dates
late 2nd century CE
Medium
Stone
Dimensions
331.0 x 197.4 cm (130 5/16 x 77 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch to Princeton University
Object Number
y1965-212
Place Excavated
Turkey, near Antioch on the Orontes, Daphne Harbie
Period
Materials
Subject
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. 198, pp. 167-168, pl. 41 and 45
- Doro Levi, Antioch mosaic pavements, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1947).
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"Galleries of Ancient Art: given by the Class of 1929," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 25, no. 1/2 (1966): 46–48.
, p. 47 (illus.) -
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) - F. Cimok, ed., Antioch mosaics: a corpus, (Istanbul: A Turizm Yayinlari, 1995)., p. 88-89
