Image code: 61216

Emblem with festoon with masks, flowers, leaves and fruit. Mosaic. Detail

A festooned emblem of flowers and fruit, adorned with two Greek theatre masks. It was placed in the atrium of the House of the Faun. It is a polychrome mosaic panel, with masks with elaborate hairstyles in wigs and ringlets, set in a festoon of flowers and fruit. The mosaic is the work of Alexandrian craftsmen and is in the 1st style and dates back to the late 2nd century, early 1st century BC The detail shows a mask and part of the festoon with flowers, leaves and fruit, among which pomegranate, apple and grape stand out.

Filters


Research