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Z45.8 PASIPHAE, DAEDALUS & THE WOODEN COW

Pasiphae, Daedalus & Wooden Cow | Greco-Roman mosaic
DETAILS
Museum Collection Gaziantep Museum of Archaeology, Gaziantep
Catalogue No. -
Type Mosaic
Context Zeugma
Date -
Period Imperial Roman

DESCRIPTION

Queen Pasiphae of Crete receives the wooden cow from the craftsman Daedalus. The queen is seated on a throne and attended by a young handmaiden and an elderly woman, probably her nurse, named Trophos. Daedalus, on the far right, holds a saw and other carpentry tools. Beneath the queen's throne Eros, the winged god of love, pierces the head of the wooden cow with an arrow of desire.

ARTICLES

Pasiphae, Eros

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Eros

Z31.11 Eros