Category:Antakya Museum Hotel Mosaics

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During works for a planned hotel extensive mosaics were found in Antakya. The work was halted and the decision made to build the hotel after the mosaics had been excavated. Also, to put the hotel on columns over it, with plenty of space to turn the lower part into a museum. Here pictures of the museum-to-be area are shown.

There are hundreds of square meters of mosaics, surrounded by what seemed to have been public spaces and some buildings, and as piece de resistance a wonderful and huge mosaic. A big central frame with Pegasus, the winged horse, surrounded by water nymphs. Then a smaller but still large frame with muses, some smaller frames with smaller groups, and lots of smallish frames with all kinds of animals, or fishing putti.

Surrounding this there are tens of square meters with fine geometric patterns, that were made more complicated as earthquakes had corrugated them, without causing much damage.

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