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Thursday 11 July 2013
A Mosaic from Olynthus
A Mosaic from the Olynthus colony in northern Greece.
The motif of 2 griffins attacking a deer originated in Central Asia and came to Greece via the Persian Empire. Perhaps the artist saw a woven carpet ?
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