The Achilles Mosaic from the 'Villa with a View' in Ptolemais (Libya)

• Authors: Mikocki T.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This is a publication of a fragmentary mosaic that originally adorned an upper-floor room of the 3rd cent. 'Villa with a View' in Ptolemais. Among hundreds of smaller pieces and loose tesserae found in the debris above the Mosaic of Dionysus in the triclinium, several scenes illustrating the myth of Achilles could be identified, including that of the unmasking of Achilles on Skyros and a group of three figures (Thetis entrusting Achilles to the care of Lykomedes?). Further reconstruction and conservation works are needed.

Keywords

EN

ACHILLES MOSAIC; POLISH EXCAVATIONS; PTOLEMAIS

Discipline

• ARCHAEOLOGY: ARCHAEOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Archeologia
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 56
• Pages: 57-68
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Mikocki T.

• T. Mikocki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Archeologii, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA01874015