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Seathiasos 825

From a Roman bathouse there is a series of mosaics, inventory numbers 825, 829 and 830. They represent sea-related scenes. They are on one floor in the new museum, but I here sort the ones with number 825.

In the catalogue it is indicated that they are all from the same room in an Antakya bath house, fourth century AD. I used to have the other mosaics from that bathhouse in a set with these, but decided to order them with the mosaics in general.

From the Wikipedia I understand that a group of followers of a god, often in their ecstacy, was called a thiasos. Most often we see the one of Dionysus, but this must be one of the sea god Poseidon, depicted as a triumphal wedding procession with Amphitrite, attended by figures such as sea nymphs and hippocamps.
Antakya Archaeology Museum Sea Thiasos env 825 mosaic sept 2019 5994.jpg
Antakya Archaeology Museum Sea Thiasos env 825 mosaic sept 2019 5994.jpg
Antakya Museum 7489
Antakya Museum 7489
Antakya Museum 7490b
Antakya Museum 7490b
Antakya dec 2008 6568.jpg
Antakya dec 2008 6568.jpg
Antakya Museum 7624
Antakya Museum 7624
Antakya Archaeology Museum Sea Thiasos env. 825 mosiac sept 2019 5943.jpg
Antakya Archaeology Museum Sea Thiasos env. 825 mosiac sept 2019 5943.jpg
Antakya Archaeology Museum Sea Thiasos env. 825 mosiac sept 2019 5939.jpg
Antakya Archaeology Museum Sea Thiasos env. 825 mosiac sept 2019 5939.jpg