Each of the five panels folds at the top and bottom to create three illustrations. This book form, called “metamorphosis,” was so popular that thirty-nine editions were printed in America before 1820. Other manuscript copies exist, but all copies are unique.
You can see this book in person in our current exhibition, The Living Book: New Perspectives on From and Function on display through January 5th, 2018.
Crete, Archaeological Museum of Kissamos:
Border details from a dionysiac mosaic floor, the rider hunts a jaguar, while a cupid shoots down a leaping deer.
Dionysiac Mosaic Floor, [Found in] Antonios Skounakis plot (1985), north side of El. Venizelos Square
[…]The composition follows an interesting iconographic program related to Dionysiac ritual. It is divided in panels, that are framed by curving and interwining vine branches, which mimic ceiling decoration.
The central figures are of Dionysus the Victor surrounded by scenes of a sacred hunt and a symbolic wine press. This mosaic probably belonged to the same villa as the Seasons mosaic (exhibited next to it.) It has many ancient restorations, evidence of long use for the building.
End of 2nd - beginning of the 3rd century A.D
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Propylon of the Athena Polias sanctuary
Priene, Ionia, Turkey
25 BCE
7.60 m. in width, 4.5 m in height
Temple of Athena Polias & Altar of Athena Polias
The propylon was a monumental entrance to the Athena Sanctuary. It is not aligned with the central axis of the Temple but instead is situated slightly to the south, providing a visitor to the Sanctuary with a view of the south-east corner of the Altar and the Temple.
It was of an Ionic order; four columns at both east and west facades of the propylon.
In the east, six steps lead from the street level to a courtyard articulated by tetrastyle porticoes at the front and rear; a transverse wall with central door crosses the west end of the propylon.
Pilaster capitals decorated with acanthus decoration once believed to have articulated the interior walls of the propylon are now thought to have come from at least four free-standing pilaster monuments, which once supported bronze statues, and which stood between the south wall of the temple and the south stoa. One of the Ionic column capitals (now in the British Museum) preserves the compass marks used in designing the volute.
(The illustrations show the way the pilasters were believed to have been used at the Propylon prior to more research)
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