1. Two 𝐌𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐚 mosaics were found near #Antioch, in the village of Yakto. Let’s begin with the one excavated in 2009 during hotel construction works. Set against a creamy background, a female bust in central medallion is surrounded by vivid, coloured flock of birds

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1. This rare Roman mosaic has been found in 2022, during civil war, in Rastan near Homs (ancient Emesa) in Syria. The mosaic, measuring 20 x 6m (1,300 square feet ), it displays scenes from the Trojan War, along with unique portrayals of Amazon warriors
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4. The original context of mosaic still has much to reveal. “We can’t identify the type of the building, whether it’s a public bathhouse or something else” - said Humam Saad, the associate director of excavation and archaeological research.
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7. This image functions as a medium of glocal visual communication.
Local sartorial traditions and gestures are embedded within a widely shared Roman banquet schema, negotiating identity between local practice and imperial visual conventions.
#Palmyra #RomanSyria #VisualCulture #Glocalization

2. Amazon warriors were shown alongside the people of Troy as well as Hercules slaying the Amazon queen Hippolyta. It also depicts the Roman god of the sea, Neptune, with 40 of his mistresses.
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3. The mosaic dates to the 4th century CE - the revolutionary period of very dynamic developent of mosaic industry in Syria, which, during Constantinian renaissance were used to convey ideological statements in Pagan/Christian polemics.
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1/ The coin of Julia Domna with an eagle (symbolising Zeus, Baal) holding a sacred rock (baetylus) of Elagabalus between his claws. Kept in Pergamonmuseum. Photo: Lotz Jürgen Lubke. Source: Syria's Expat Artifacts. The mint I guess was local #RomanSyria.

Has anyone got an up-to-date #RomanSyria or #Romanneareast map (that isn't the Ted Kaiser one)?

or should I just make one myself....

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Rural Cult Centres in the #Hauran as Part of a Broader Network of the Near East (100 BC–AD 300)

#RomanNearEast #RomanSyria #AncientLevant
www.academia.edu/37487488/Rur...

This god is your god, this god is my god: local identities at sacralized places in #RomanSyria

#RomanNearEast #AncientSyria #AncientLevant #RomanReligion #AncientLebanon #CanaaniteReligion #Polytheism #AncientReligions
www.academia.edu/42734335/Thi...