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2005
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Milun Garcevic, « A Second-Century Roman Mosaic from Aenona (Nin) in Dalmatia, Croatia », Publications de l'École Française de Rome, ID : 10670/1.kan51x
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The large rectangular carpet embellished a banquet-room and set asymmetrically on the white tessellated background. The square panel composed of an orthogonal pattern of octagons and small squares with swastika-meander into which are inserted large square panels that interrupt the repetitive pattern. One of them contains a delicately drawn crater embellished with meander and lotus flower, flanked by dove and phoenix. Octogons framed by swastika meander contain geometrical patterns and animals in silhouette form such as a dog, wild boar, various deer etc. The figurative panels (pseudo-emblemata) made of small tesserrae (under 4 mm) in workshop (indirect method) and turned on setting back in situ. The mosaic field is framed by a black fillet enclosing black and white adjacent parallelograms separated by row of adjacent squares, and by an alternately arcaded and crenellated guillloche band. The chessboard pattern frames the rows of parallelograms.