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THBRoman Stone Mosaic - Men Playing Dice Game
Lot 39c
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Roman, the Levant, late Imperial Period, ca. 3rd to 5th century CE. A fascinating stone mosaic depicting a genre scene of everyday life - two gentleman playing a dice game while seated at a table with a vessel and chalice on the shelf above and at the ready for them to share a festive drink during this day of leisure. Both men wear tunics and sandals. The man at the left sits upon a tree trunk and gestures in the direction of his companion as if he has just tossed the dice, while the man at the right looks as if he is cupping some dice in his hands. All is delineated with finely cut square and rectangular stone tesserae in hues of sienna, golden ochre, cocoa, black, white, peach, and a few that are green and russet red - all against a creamy white wall with a golden yellow ochre floor. Size (mosaic): 44.875" W x 34.1" H (114 cm x 86.6 cm); (frame): 47.3" W x 36.25" H (120.1 cm x 92.1 cm)
Mosaics (opus tesellatum) are some of our most enduring images from the Roman world, exciting not only for their aesthetic beauty, but also because they reveal what Romans chose to depict and see every day decorating their private and public spaces - in this case, two friends enjoying a leisurely day of gaming. In the Roman province of Syria, which encompassed most of the ancient Near East/Levant, mosaics developed as a popular art form from the 3rd to the 5th century CE. Syria was one of Rome's wealthiest provinces, but it was also far removed from Rome itself and Roman culture was overlaid on enduring cultural traditions from Hellenistic Greece and the great civilizations that came before it. Antioch-on-the-Orontes (modern day Antakya, Turkey), was the capital of northern Roman Syria, and its excavations in the 1930s revealed more than three hundred mosaic pavements - of which many embellished public baths.
Provenance: ex-Phoenicia Holyland Antiquities, New York, New York, USA; ex-Fortuna Fine Arts, LLC, New York, New York, USA, collected in the 1990s
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#157322Mounted on a concrete backing and framed. Small chips and losses to some tesserae, with light encrustations, and a couple of stable hairline fissures to some concrete matrix and some tesserae, otherwise in wonderful condition with great preservation of imagery and tesserae colors.Condition
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