DANAE EVİ’NİN MOZAİKLERİ

Mehmet ÖNAL

Article Details

DANAE EVİ’NİN MOZAİKLERİ

Authors:

Mehmet ÖNAL

Publisher:

Bursa Uludağ University

Journal:

Journal of Mosaic Research 2009 Issue 3, pp.53-69

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

8/2009

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2000488651

Frequency:

Monthly

eISSN:

2619-9165

pISSN:

1309-047X

Abstract:

 

Danae House was unearthed by my responsibility, on head of Gaziantep Museum Directorate in 2003-4
 excavation. The house was named Danae owing to Danae was figured on the mosaics.
 Danae-Diktys mosaics were found in shallow pool (impluvium) of inner court. On this mosaics, the chest
 containing Danae and Perseus washed ashore on the island of Seriphos is described. Danae gets out from
 the box with her baby Perseus who was embraced by her, over agains pirate Diktys extends his hand to baby
 Perseus. One of the fisherman holds cover of the chest, the other looks at inside it. Similar scene like DanaeDiktys
 were find few on the other mosaics. The scene were described on the wall and vase painting. On these
 grounds, the Danae mosaics of Zeugma is rare.
 Geometrics desing mosaics are seen on the ground of perystyle, living room, resting room and latrine. The
 motifs of geometric mosaics are intersecting circles forming quatrefoils, row of tanged outlined with serrated
 fillets, shaded three-strand guilloche, meander and row of tangent four-pointed stars as saltires, with in
 crosslets of 5 poised tesserae. These geometric motifs are also seen on the ground mosaics of the other houses
 of Zeugma.
 Owing to location of Danae House is higher than Birecik Dam lake, its mosaics are left on-site in original
 rooms which they were found.

Article Details

DANAE EVİ’NİN MOZAİKLERİ

Authors: Mehmet ÖNAL

Publisher: Bursa Uludağ University

Journal: Journal of Mosaic Research 2009 Issue 3, pp.53-69

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 8/2009

Document Language: Turkish

Document ID (Org No.): 2000488651

Frequency: Monthly

eISSN: 2619-9165

pISSN: 1309-047X

Issues

Authors:

Mehmet ÖNAL

Publisher:

Bursa Uludağ University

Journal:

Journal of Mosaic Research 2009 Issue 3, pp.53-69

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

8/2009

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2000488651

Frequency:

Monthly

eISSN:

2619-9165

pISSN:

1309-047X