Close up of mosaic edge tesserae depicting border with stag and leopard partially visible, after conservation
- Description:
- Close up of mosaic edge tesserae depicting border with stag and leopard partially visible, after conservation
- Photographer:
- Image captured by Project Staff
- Date Created:
- July 16, 2003
- Collection:
- Greco-Roman Museum Mosaic Conservation
- Series:
- Post-conservation
- Subseries:
- Stag Hunt Mosaic
- Location:
- Alexandria, Egypt and Al Iskandarīyah
- Time Period:
- Hellenistic Period and Ptolemaic Period
- Topic:
- Art, Greco-Roman, Borders, Ornamental (Decorative arts), Animals in art, Mosaics, Tesserae, and Stonework
- Genre:
- color photographs and documentary photography
- Conservation Note:
- The stag has a yellowish-white body with dark gray or black dots made of freely placed tesserae, except for the outer edges. Shading of the inner parts of the legs is made with pink tesserae; the belly and neck are underlined with one row of white tesserae. The head is all white and so are the horns; the ear is shaded with pink and brown. The eye is made of a white stone cut to the required shape and of a black pebble with red highlight. The mouth is pink and the nostrils marked with black cubes. Lead strips were used for the contours and inner details. Facing him, the leopard stands on three legs, lifting the right front leg. Its mouth is open. Pink tesserae were used to depict the nose and the inner part of the ear. The body is creamy-white with black and gray (after cleaning, the bluish tone seen previously turned out not to be so) dots. Pebbles were used for the hair at the end of the tail. Shading of the inner parts of the legs is in pink. The eye is of a black pebble with white and red highlights (Final Remarks Report).
- Copyright Status:
- copyrighted
- Creative Commons License:
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- Local ID:
- arce_ca_mmc_images_0031.tif
- Project History:
- Within the walls of the Greco-Roman Museum, Alexandria, Egypt are three intricate mosaics of very fine quality between the second and third century, BCE. Under the auspices of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), Father Michele Piccirillo of the Studium Biblicum Franciscum directed the conservation of the mosaics. Notably, it resulted in the public viewing of the stag hunt mosaic for the first time since its discovery. Conservation work was made possible with the support of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (formerly the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities).
- Funding Agency:
- Greco-Roman Museum Mosaic Conservation project was made possible with funding by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Grant No. 263-G-00-93-00089-00 and administered by the Egyptian Antiquities Project (EAP) of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE).