Floor Mosaic of Personification of Eukarpia (Abundance of the Harvest)
Artist/Culture
Antioch
Artist/Culture
Roman
Date376-400
MediumCubes of marble, limestone and glass embedded in lime mortar
Dimensions80 x 103.5 cm (31 1/2 x 40 3/4 in.)
ClassificationsMosaics
Credit LineExcavation of Antioch and Vicinity funded by the bequests of the Reverend Dr. Austin S. Garver and Sarah C. Garver
Terms
Object number1936.28
DescriptionFemale personification of Eukarpia (Abundance of the Harvest)Woman wreathed with fruit and leaves, wearing a tunic, shoulders bare. Looking to the right. Geometric border. Found in a cemetery near the SE edge of town, not far from the ring of walls near the lowest slopes of Mt. Silpius. This panel part of a wide figured border to Worcester's Funerary Banquet mosaic (see acc. #s 1936.26 and 1936.29) -Kondoleon
ProvenanceExcavation at Antioch; sector 24-L, 1935
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