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| Titles |
Mosaic with Animals: |
| Name |
Angela Kalinowski |
| Type of Resource |
three dimensional object |
| Genre |
Mosaic |
| Abstract |
Mosaic depicting various animals including: six panthers, two bears, two boars, two mouflon sheep, two ostriches, one bull, one fallow deer, one bushbuck in a harness, and one addax. Between the panthers of the upper register is an inscription in two lines: MEL (line one) QVAESTURA (line two). A partial inscription is also found on the upper left portion: ...L(?)ETI . M.
Several of the animals have numbers inscribed on their flanks: N XL (bear); N XXV (ostrich); N X (mouflon sheep); N XXX (left bear); N (line one) VI (line two) (left mouflon sheep); N XV (left addax). |
| Physical Location |
Musée Nationale du Bardo, Tunis |
| Extent |
H: 334 cm ; W: 820 cm |
| Form |
tactile material |
| Note |
Dates to c. 3rd century CE. The mosaic was found in the remains of a Roman house 3000 cm east of the amphitheatre. The numbers found on the animals represent each sort of animal that participated in the munus. The mosaic likely decorated the house of the person who held the spectacle, who was a magistrate or a priest, perhaps the quaestor of the colonia Karthago, wich may be the allusion in the inscription MEL QVAESTURA (Poinssot and Quoniam (Karthago, 1952 p. 141). |
| Access Condition |
Attributed to Angela Kalinowski under the license CC-BY-NC 4.0 |
| Access Condition |
CC-BY-NC 4.0 |
| Subject Local Name |
--Mosaic--Animal--Munera--Venatio--Animal Show--Roman--Panther--Bear--Boar--Sheep--Ostrich--Bull--Fallow Deer--Deer--Bushbuck--Antelope--Addax------3rd c. CE |