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Mosaic depicting Dionysos and Ariadne

With representations of comedies of Menander in panels and personifications of seasons between.

2nd half of the 3rd c. CE

From the 'House of Dionysos', near the Plateia Agoras in Khania, excavated in 1977.

 

Archaeological Museum of Chania, Crete - Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Χανίων (Interkriti, Wikipedia)

Chania, Ancient Cydonia / Kydonia / Κυδωνία (Pleiades; Wikipedia)

 

 

(note: this is the old, pre-2020, location; a new purpose-built museum opened in 2022)

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Uploaded on April 28, 2013
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