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Feline powers in Antiquity and beyond: The Nodus Herculaneus ((Herculean knot / Ἡράκλειον ἅμμα) & 'Dionysus’ Panther', (Το αιλουροειδές του Διονύσου) 🐾🏛️🦁🐆

View these two artworks and explore some of their hidden meanings and narratives.

#antiquity #archaeology #Hellenistic #GrecoRoman #artifacts #Dionysus #Hercules #animalia #Museum #Greece #Mediterranean #history #Histodons #PlinyNaturalHistory

And their names: ΣΜΑΡΑΓΔΙN (Emerald) 🐈and ΩΚΕΑΝΟC (Ocean)! 🐕🐾🏛️

Details from a 1,800-year-old mosaic discovered in Adramyttium (Αδραμύττιοv/ Edremit‎‎/ https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550403) bring to light precious insights into the life of its different inhabitants and their close connection.

https://hispanatolia.com/en/roman-villa-with-mosaics-discovered-in-the-ruins-of-adramytteion-turkey/

#Art #Archaeology #Antiquity #Mosaics #Animalia #Academic #PleiadesGazetteer #GrecoRoman #Adramyttium #Excavation #Apotropaic #RomanVilla #Mediterranean #Histodons #MuratÖgzen #Hellenistic

And their names: ΣΜΑΡΑΓΔΙN (Emerald) 🐈and ΩΚΕΑΝΟC (Ocean)! 🐕🐾🏛️

Details from a 1,800-year-old mosaic discovered in Adramyttium (Αδραμύττιοv/ Edremit‎‎/ https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550403) bring to light precious insights into the life of its different inhabitants and their close connection.

https://hispanatolia.com/en/roman-villa-with-mosaics-discovered-in-the-ruins-of-adramytteion-turkey/

#Art #Archaeology #Antiquity #Mosaics #Animalia #Academic #PleiadesGazetteer #GrecoRoman #Adramyttium #Excavation #Apotropaic #RomanVilla #Mediterranean #Histodons #MuratÖgzen #Hellenistic

And their names: ΣΜΑΡΑΓΔΙN (Emerald) 🐈and ΩΚΕΑΝΟC (Ocean)! 🐕🐾🏛️

Details from a 1,800-year-old mosaic discovered in Adramyttium (Αδραμύττιοv/ Edremit‎‎/ https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550403) bring to light precious insights into the life of its different inhabitants and their close connection.

https://hispanatolia.com/en/roman-villa-with-mosaics-discovered-in-the-ruins-of-adramytteion-turkey/

#Art #Archaeology #Antiquity #Mosaics #Animalia #Academic #PleiadesGazetteer #GrecoRoman #Adramyttium #Excavation #Apotropaic #RomanVilla #Mediterranean #Histodons #MuratÖgzen #Hellenistic

And their names: ΣΜΑΡΑΓΔΙN (Emerald) 🐈and ΩΚΕΑΝΟC (Ocean)! 🐕🐾🏛️

Details from a 1,800-year-old mosaic discovered in Adramyttium (Αδραμύττιοv/ Edremit‎‎/ https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550403) bring to light precious insights into the life of its different inhabitants and their close connection.

https://hispanatolia.com/en/roman-villa-with-mosaics-discovered-in-the-ruins-of-adramytteion-turkey/

#Art #Archaeology #Antiquity #Mosaics #Animalia #Academic #PleiadesGazetteer #GrecoRoman #Adramyttium #Excavation #Apotropaic #RomanVilla #Mediterranean #Histodons #MuratÖgzen #Hellenistic

And their names: ΣΜΑΡΑΓΔΙN (Emerald) 🐈and ΩΚΕΑΝΟC (Ocean)! 🐕🐾🏛️

Details from a 1,800-year-old mosaic discovered in Adramyttium (Αδραμύττιοv/ Edremit‎‎/ https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550403) bring to light precious insights into the life of its different inhabitants and their close connection.

https://hispanatolia.com/en/roman-villa-with-mosaics-discovered-in-the-ruins-of-adramytteion-turkey/

#Art #Archaeology #Antiquity #Mosaics #Animalia #Academic #PleiadesGazetteer #GrecoRoman #Adramyttium #Excavation #Apotropaic #RomanVilla #Mediterranean #Histodons #MuratÖgzen #Hellenistic