File:Mosaic showing a theatre scene, from the Villa del Cicerone in Pompeii, 150 - 125 BC, signed by Dioskurides of Samos, Naples National Archaeological Museum (14633800159).jpg
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This exceptional mosaic bears the signature, like another small scene from the same villa, of Dioskourides of Samos. It exemplifies the Hellenistic tradition at its best, and a recent hypothesis dates it to the third rather than the latter part of the second century B.C. The scene portrayed is either from Aristophanes’s comedy Synaristoi or from a play of the New Comedy. Three women carrying masks are seated round a circular table, two of them youthful and the other an old hag. The presence of vases on the table suggests that the sorceress might be preparing love potions, assisted by a serving girl seen on the right. The mosaic reproduces a painting characterised by pastel hues with colours that blend into one another and by a remarkable sense of volume, well embodied at the bottom by the steps and overhead by the perspective created by the wings in graded colours. |
| Date | Taken on 4 July 2014, 11:55 |
| Source | Mosaic showing a theatre scene, two women consult a sorceress (the three of them wear theatre masks), from the Villa del Cicerone in Pompeii, 150 - 125 BC, signed by Dioskurides of Samos, Naples National Archaeological Museum |
| Author | Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Following Hadrian at https://flickr.com/photos/41523983@N08/14633800159. It was reviewed on 21 September 2023 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0. |
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