Aion mosaic at the Arles Archaeological Museum
Item
Title
Aion mosaic at the Arles Archaeological Museum
Location (Site/Findspot)
Villa de la Verrerie de la Trinquetaille, Room X
Type
Medium
Subject
Aion
Description
Mosaic from a dining room (triclinium). Central scene depicts Aion/Annus, personification of the year, who turns a zodiac wheel. Entrance scene depicts drunken Dionysus. Recovered via salvage excavation, 1982-84.
Repository/Authority
Bibliography
Heijmans, Marc, Jean-Maurice Rouquette, and Claude Sintes. Arles antique. Paris: Editions du Patrimoine, 2006, 8, 108-11.
Rights Holder
Photographs by Kimberly Cassibry