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'''Object Description''': Detail showing a head and part-torso of Hesiod, from a late-third-century AD mosaic featuring literary figures, Muses, theatre-masks and personified months. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier inv. 10703-10724. | '''Object Description''': Detail showing a head and part-torso of Hesiod, from a late-third-century AD mosaic featuring literary figures, Muses, theatre-masks and personified months. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier inv. 10703-10724. | ||
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Object Description: Detail showing a head and part-torso of Hesiod, from a late-third-century AD mosaic featuring literary figures, Muses, theatre-masks and personified months. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier inv. 10703-10724.
Object Archaeology: Discovered in 1884 under the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier (Goethert and Goethert-Polaschek 1979; Dahm 1979; Hoffmann 1999: 39-46).
Inscriptions: In this detail: ESIO-DUS.
Dimensions: The straight sides of the mosaic as a whole (of which this detail is only a small part) measure 5.70m (Dahm 1979: 104).
Bibliography
- Dahm, L. 1979 ‘Die neuen Rekonstruktion der im Bereich des Landesmuseums Trier gefigürlichen römischen Mosaiken.’ in Festschrift: 100 Jahre Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier: Beiträge zur Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landeszur Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes. Trier. 97-110.
- Daniel, R. W. 1996. ‘Epicharmus in Trier: A Note on the Monnus-Mosaic.’ ZPE 114: 30-36.
- Goethert, K.-P. and Goethert-Polaschek, K. 1979. “Das Gebäude mit dem Monnus-Mosaik: Die Ausgrabungen unter dem Rheinischen Landesmuseum Trier von 1884-1962.’ in Festschrift: 100 Jahre Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier: Beiträge zur Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landeszur Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes. Trier. 69-96.
- Hoffmann, P. 1999. Römische Mosaike im Rheinischen Landesmuseum Trier: Führer zur Dauerausstellung. Trier. 39-46.
- Richter, G. M. A. 1965. The Portraits of the Greeks. London. 57.
- Richter, G. M. A. and Smith, R. R. R. 1984 The Portraits of the Greeks. London. 134-5.
- Schefold, K. 1997. Die Bildnisse der antiken Dichter, Redner und Denker. Basel. 390-1.
