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Image: Delos Museum Mosaik Dionysos 05

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Description: A Hellenistic Greek mosaic depicting the god Dionysos as a winged daimon riding on a tiger, from the House of Dionysos at Delos in the South Aegean region of Greece, late 2nd century BC; sources: * Brecoulaki, Hariclia (2016), “Greek Interior Decoration: Materials and Technology in the Art of Cosmesis and Display”, in Irby, Georgia L., editor, A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World), volume 1, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 9781118372678, page 678 * Dunbabin, Katherine, M. D. (1999) Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521002303, page 32
Title: Delos Museum Mosaik Dionysos 05
Credit: Self-photographed by Olaf Tausch (talk · contribs), 24 September 2013
Author: Unknown artistUnknown artist
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