Abstract
Danae House was unearthed by my responsibility, on head of Gaziantep Museum Directorate in 2003-4
excavation. The house was named Danae owing to Danae was figured on the mosaics.
Danae-Diktys mosaics were found in shallow pool (impluvium) of inner court. On this mosaics, the chest
containing Danae and Perseus washed ashore on the island of Seriphos is described. Danae gets out from
the box with her baby Perseus who was embraced by her, over agains pirate Diktys extends his hand to baby
Perseus. One of the fisherman holds cover of the chest, the other looks at inside it. Similar scene like DanaeDiktys
were find few on the other mosaics. The scene were described on the wall and vase painting. On these
grounds, the Danae mosaics of Zeugma is rare.
Geometrics desing mosaics are seen on the ground of perystyle, living room, resting room and latrine. The
motifs of geometric mosaics are intersecting circles forming quatrefoils, row of tanged outlined with serrated
fillets, shaded three-strand guilloche, meander and row of tangent four-pointed stars as saltires, with in
crosslets of 5 poised tesserae. These geometric motifs are also seen on the ground mosaics of the other houses
of Zeugma.
Owing to location of Danae House is higher than Birecik Dam lake, its mosaics are left on-site in original
rooms which they were found.
Details
| Other ID | JA25PY97EE |
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| Journal Section | Article |
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| Publication Date | September 1, 2009 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2009 Issue: 3 |