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06-Jun-2013 Dick Osseman

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There is a mosaic in the southern quarter of the city which, although it is in the Archaelogical Museum, is in situ. [T]he now isolated rectangular room (5.37 m x 3.58 m) is decorated with a square composition consisting of four trees laden with fruit and placed in each of the four corners. At the center, the top-most branches of the trees meet a medallion on which there is an image of a man's head with his hair arranged like a helmet. In the space between the tree-trunks, along the sides of the panel, there are figures of paired animals facing each other: two rams, two hares, and two birds which are either ducks or geese. On the northern side, a lion and a zebu face each other from opposite sides of of a bush. [T]he composition, which has been interpreted as a scene of filia (friendship) among animals, may have been used here as a symbolic representation of the Biblical Eden or Paradise. -- Piccirillo p128
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