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Z47.9 ANDROMEDA & PERSEUS

Andromeda & Perseus | Greco-Roman mosaic
DETAILS
Museum Collection Bardo National Museum, Tunis
Catalogue No. -
Type Mosaic
Context -
Date C3rd A.D.
Period Late Roman

DESCRIPTION

Perseus frees Andromeda from her chains on the rocks. The hero wears a red cloak, and holds a sword and the head of the Gorgon Medusa in one hand. The god Pontus or Oceanus, the sea personified, reclines below the pair. He wears a blue-grey robe and is crowned with a pair of lobster-antennae "horns."

ARTICLES

Perseus, Ethiopian Cetus, Medusa, Pontus, Oceanus