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This #MosaicMonday we travel metaphorically to the Bardo Museum in Tunis to see this beautiful marine scene with what looks to be a goddess holding a ... (fedia.io)
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This #MosaicMonday we travel metaphorically to the Bardo Museum in Tunis to see this beautiful marine scene with what looks to be a goddess holding a rope. I’m not familiar with this iconography, but have seen this scene repeated in other mosaics, so if you know what’s going on here, I’d love to learn more.

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Mosaic shows a marine scene populated by various fish, shellfish, and what looks like a bull in the lower left corner. Two angry looking dolphins appear to swim near the central figure, a goddess nude except for jewellery and holding a substantial rope.
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

If it's from Tunis, is that Roman or Carthaginian?

Suddenly it occurs to me that I've never thought of Carthaginian mosaics and art as a thing or category until right at this very moment.

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