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XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU16 991251 20 EKİM 2009 BURSA TUumlRKİYE
Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve Antik Doumlnemden Ortaccedilağ DuumlnyasınaDiğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi
Mozaiklerin Başlangıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografiStil ve Teknik Uumlzerine Sorular
S
11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUMON ANCIENT MOSAICS
OCTOBER 16TH 991251 20TH 2009 BURSA TURKEY
Mosaics of Turkey and Parallel Developments in theRest of the Ancient and Medieval World
Questions of Iconography Style and Technique from theBeginnings of Mosaic until the Late Byzantine Era
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Uludağ Uumlniversitesi Yayınları Uludağ University PressUludağ Uumlniversitesi Mozaik Araştırmaları Merkezi Yayınları Serisi - 1
Uludağ University Mosaic Research Center Series - 1Sempozyum Bildirileri 3 Symposium Papers 3
XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU16 991251 20 EKİM 2009 BURSA TUumlRKİYE
Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve Antik Doumlnemden Ortaccedilağ DuumlnyasınaDiğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi
Mozaiklerin Başlangıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografiStil ve Teknik Uumlzerine Sorular
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11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUMON ANCIENT MOSAICS
OCTOBER 16TH 991251 20TH 2009 BURSA TURKEY
Mosaics of Turkey and Parallel Developments in theRest of the Ancient and Medieval World
Questions of Iconography Style and Technique from theBeginnings of Mosaic until the Late Byzantine Era
Editoumlr Edited by
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XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU
16 991251 20 EKİM 2009 BURSA TUumlRKİYETuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve Antik Doumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına
Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel GelişimiMozaiklerin Başlangıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi
Stil ve Teknik Uumlzerine Sorular
S
11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUMON ANCIENT MOSAICS
OCTOBER 16TH 991251 20TH 2009 BURSA TURKEY
Mosaics of Turkey and Parallel Developments in theRest of the Ancient and Medieval World
Questions of Iconography Style and Technique from theBeginnings of Mosaic until the Late Byzantine Era
Editoumlr Edited by
Mustafa ŞAHİN
Uludağ Uumlniversitesi Uludağ University
Mozaik Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi Mosaic Research Center - AIEMA - TUumlRKİYE
İstanbul 2011
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Bildiriler soyadı sırasına goumlre sıralanmıştır Bu kitapta yayınlanan bildirilerdeki bilimsel iccedilerik ve dil sorumluluğu yazarlarına aittir Kaynak goumlsterilerek alıntı yapılabilir
e papers are arranged in an ordered of surname e content and language responsibility are belong to the authorsIf you show the source you can be quoted e quoted can be showed with source
Bu kitap TUumlBİTAKrsquoın maddi desteği ile basılmıştır
is book was published by the financial support of TUBITAK
TC
KUumlLTUumlRVE TURİZM BAKANLIĞI
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KURULLAR COMMITTEE
Organizasyon Komitesi Organizing Committee
Onursal Başkan Honorary President
Prof Dr Mete CengizRector of Uludag University Uludağ Uumlniversitesi Rektoumlruuml
Onur Kurulu Honorary CommitteeErtuğrul Guumlnay
Kuumlltuumlr ve Turizm Bakanı Minister of Culture and Tourism
Şahabettin HarputBursa Valisi Governor of Bursa
Recep AltepeBursa Buumlyuumlkşehir Belediye Başkanı Mayor of metropolitan municipality of Bursa
Sempozyum Başkanı Symposium PresidentProf Dr Mustafa Şahin
Başkan Yardımcısı Vice PresidentDr Derya Şahin
Sempozyum Sekreterleri Symposium SecretariesAli Altın - Başak Emir
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Bilimsel Komite Scientific CommitteeProf Dr Mustafa ŞahinProf Dr Henri Lavagne
Prof Dr Catherine BalmelleProf Dr David ParrishProf Dr Werner Jobst
Prof Dr Michael Fuchs
Prof Dr Anne-Marie Guimier-SorbetsProf Dr Demetrios MichaelideProf Dr Giordana Trovabene
Prof Dr Janine Balty Prof Dr Federico Guidobaldi
Prof Dr Guadalupe Lopez MonteagudoProf Dr Asher OvadiahDoccedil Dr Guumlrcan PolatDoccedil Dr İ Hakan Mert
Dr Aiumlcha Ben-AbedDr Jean-Pierre Darmon
Dr Derya ŞahinDr Patricia Witts
Miguel Pessoa
Lokal Organizasyon Komitesi Local Organizing CommitteeProf Dr Zeren Tanındı
Prof Dr Selccediluk KırlıProf Dr İsmail Naci Canguumll
Ass Prof Hakan MertAss Prof Guumlrcan Polat
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İCcedilİNDEKİLER TABLE OF CONTENTS
Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xiii
Kısaltmalar Abreviations xix
Giriş xxiii
Foreword xxv
Komait Abdallah
Mosaiumlque drsquoHeacuteraclegraves deacutecouverte agrave Homs (Syrie centrale) 1
Maria Andaloro ndash Paola Pogliani
e 6 th Century Mosaic Floor of the Church of Kuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) A Model for an Integrated Analysis between Knowledge Conservation and Documentation 15
Ayşe Aydın
Das Fussbodenmosaik des Annexbaus in der Kuppelkirche in Kaunos e Floor Mosaics at the Annex Building of the Domed Church 31
Paola Baldassarri
Archaeological Excavations at Palazzo Valentini A Residential Area in the Shade of the Trajanrsquos Forum 43
Catherine Balmelle ndash Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader ndash Fathi Bejaoui La Maison des Deux Lions agrave Carthage 69
Claudia Barsanti
e Marble Floor of St John Studius in Constantinople A Neglected Masterpiece 87
Aiumlcha Ben Abed amp Roger Hanoune
Les pavements mosaiumlqueacutes des ermes agrave lrsquooctagone de Pupput (Hammamet Tunisie) 99
Jesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
e Social Construction of Gender Identities through the Ancient Mosaics from Antioch 107
Veacuteronique Blanc-Bijon ndash Fabienne Olmer avec la collaboration de Marie-Laure Courboulegraves
Une nouvelle mosaiumlque sur lrsquo oppidum de lrsquoErmitage agrave Alegraves (Gard France) 121
Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Mythology in Mosaics of Zeugma and Hispania Similarities and Differences 137
Roberto Bugini ndash Luisa Folli ndash Brunella Portulano ndash Elisabetta Roffia
e Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics A Case-Study in Northern Italy 163
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İccedilindekiler Table of Contents viii
Marija Buzov
e Early Christian Mosaics with Inscription in Croatia 171
Javier Cabrero Piquero
A New Hispano-Roman Mosaic with the Story of Meleager 193
Maria Teresa Caetano ndash Caacutetia Mouratildeo A ldquoPortraitrdquo of Book XII of the AEligneid Mosaic from the laquo House of the Medusa raquo (Alter do Chatildeo Portugal) 205
Birol Can
Technical Stylistic Iconographic Evaluation and Dating of Mosaics of Altıntepe Church 225
Margherita Carucci
An Example of Visual Humour on a Romano-African Mosaic Putting Images in their Context 235
John R Clarke ndash Lea Cline
New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa A Torre Annunziata - Italy - 50 BC ndash AD 79 247
Neil Cookson
Orpheus Some Metaphors in Mosaic 259
Violeta Cvetkovska Ocokoljic ndash Jugoslav Ocokoljic
Parallel Research Fresco Painting of Chora and Sopocani 269
Jean-Pierre Darmon
Une eacutenigme enfin reacutesolue la fausse Iphigeacutenie drsquoAntioche eacutetait une Alceste 283
Carlos Tavares da Silva ndash Joaquina Soares ndash Liciacutenia Nunes Correia Wrench
Les premiegraveres mosaiumlques romaines deacutecouvertes agrave Caetobriga (Setuacutebal Portugal) 295
Anne-Sophie Decriaud
Les Saisons personnifieacutees sur les mosaiumlques romaines tardives (IV e
-VI e
siegravecles) de la partie orientaledu Bassin meacutediterraneacuteen (Turquie Syrie Liban Israeumll Jordanie) 309
Sophie Delbarre-Baumlrtschi
Les mosaiumlques romaines en Suisse 333
Lorella Maria de Matteis
e Mosaics of the Early Christian Basilicas on the Island of Kos 339
Maria de Jesus Duran Kremer
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romaine de Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de lrsquoAlgarve 353
Mercedes Duraacuten Penedo Mosaicos con la iconografiacutea de etis madre de Aquiles en Turquiacutea y en otros enclaves del Imperio 363
Andreas M Foulias
e Basilica of Agioi Saranta Kırklar Tekke in Cyprus and its Mosaics 381
Zaraza Friedman
Ships Depicted in the Madaba Map Mosaic 391
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İccedilindekiler Table of Contents ix
Michel E Fuchs ndash Sophie Delbarre-Baumlrtschi
Derecik Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacuteglise pour deux mosaiumlques 405
Alessandra Guiglia Guidobaldi
e Marble Floor Decoration in Constantinople Prolegomena to a Corpus 413
Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets Les thegravemes dionysiaques sur les mosaiumlques helleacutenistiques drsquoAsie Mineure (Turquie) 437
Bertrand Houix ndash Veacuteronique Blanc-Bijon ndash Jean-Yves Breuil ndash Jean-Pierre Darmon ndashPascale Linant de Bellefonds
Mosaiumlques agrave thegravemes mythologiques reacutecemment deacutecouvertes sous lrsquoavenue Jean-Jaures agrave Nimes (France) 447
Işıl Rabia Işıklıkaya-Laubscher
Mosaics in Perge Preliminary Report on the Mosaics of the Macellum 467
Werner Jobst
Das Mosaikpaviment der fruumlhchristlichen Basilika von GoumlnenGerme in Mysien (Hellespont) 483
Lyudmila G KhrushkovaOpus Sectile Pavements in the Crimea and on the East Coast of the Black Sea 505
Ruth Kolarik
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implications for other Regions 519
Emine Koumlker
Antik Ccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At İkonografisi 531
Maja Kramer
Signs of Progression in the Personifications of the Seasons in Roman Mosaics e Artistic Approach Procedures and Tools Used by the Craftsmen to Relate the Viewer to the Experience of the Passing of Time 547
Delphine Lauritzen
Mosaiumlques drsquoOkeacuteanos et de alassa agrave Zurich Une proposition de mise en perspective 555
Filomena Limatildeo
e Vasersquos Representation (Cantharus Crater) on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Significant Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late Antiquity 565
Virgiacutelio Lopes
Late Antiquity in Portugal e Mosaics 585
Guadalupe Loacutepez Monteagudo
Opora through East and West Abundance Allegories in Mosaics of Spain and Turkey 597
Irene Mantildeas Romero
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of Italica Firmament Images 615
Luz Neira
e Sea iasos of Nereids and Tritons in the Roman Mosaics of Turkey 631
Marek Titien Olszewski
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 655
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İccedilindekiler Table of Contentsx
Marek Titien Olszewski ndash Piotr Zakrzewski
e Decoration of the Dining Rooms at Ptolemais in Cyrenaica (Libya) in the Light of the Last Researches 665
Elda Omari
e History and Development of Mosaics in Albania (4th 3rd Century BC ndash 6 th Century AD) 675
Asher OvadiahConservative Approaches in the Ancient Synagogue Mosaic Pavements in Israele Cases of lsquoEin Gedi and SepphorisZippori 693
Ali Kazım Oumlz
e Mosaics of Metropolis in Ionia 701
Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
Building with Mosaics of Olympos Mosaics of Late Ancient Era ndash Early Byzantine Period 709
David Parrish - Birte Poulsen
Late Antique Tombs with Mosaics in Ancient Halikarnassos 721
Bernard ParzyszUne grande famille de deacutecors geacuteomeacutetriques 735
Silvia Pedone
e Marble Omphalos of Saint Sophia in Constantinople An Analysis of an Opus Sectile Pavement of Middle Byzantine Age 749
Claudia Pelosi ndash Ulderico Santamaria
e 6 th Century AD Floor Mosaic of the Church of Kuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Characterization of the Constitutive Materials Finding of the Quarries of Origin 769
Miguel Pessoa
Stibadium with a Mosaic in the Roman Villa of Rabaccedilal Penela Portugal 779Vania Popova ndash Alexander Lirsch
Corpus of Late Antique and Early Christian Mosaics in Bulgaria 793
Manuel Romero ndash Sebastiaacuten Vargas
Mosaic Workshop Located in the Villa de la Estacioacuten de Antequera Maacutelaga (Espantildea) 823
Idit Sagiv-Hayik
e Hellenistic Mosaic of Dor ndash Figural Image or eatrical Mask 829
Barış Salman
Reflection of Some Cults and Rituels on Mosaics and Reliefs in Osroene and Other Syrian Cultures 843
M Pilar San Nicolaacutes Pedraz
On a Mosaic from Maacutelaga with the Depiction of ZeusJupiter and Antiope 853
Derya Şahin
Myndos Mosaics 865
Y Selccediluk Şener
Mozaiklerin Korunmasında Temel Kriterler 873
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İccedilindekiler Table of Contents xi
Alessandro Taddei
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of Saint Eirene at Constantinople 883
Giordana Trovabene
Knots of Lines like Weaves of reads A Corpus of Early Medieval Mosaics in ldquoVenetordquo 897
Fuumlsun Tuumlleke Bejewelled Lady of Sinope 921
Julia Valeva
Une riche domus de Stara Zagora ( Augusta Trajana-Beroe ) Publication preacuteliminaire 927
Zeev Weiss
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between East and West 941
Patricia Witts
Mosaic Studies and Souvenirs 953
Şehriguumll Yeşil-Erdek
Display of Ancient Mosaics Tourism as an Influential Factor Steering the Decision Making Process 963
Diklah Zohar
Application Procedures of Mosaics and the Division of Production Work Examples from Madaba Beth Alpha and Antioch 969
Hande Koumlkten
A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of Turkey Condition Survey of Mosaics 975
Hande Koumlkten
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as a Management Activity of Archaeological Sites 983
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BİLİMSEL PROGRAM SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
16 October 2009 Fr983145day
0900 - 1040 Open983145ng Ceremony OumlRDEKLİ COMPLEX
HALL A HALL B
Panel 1Moderator Dav983145d Parr983145sh
Panel 2Moderator Werner Jobst
1040 - 1100
La Fausse Iph983145geacuten983145e Dant983145oche Une Eacuten983145gme Enf983145n
ReacutesolueJean - P983145erre Darmon
Les Personn983145f983145cat983145ons Des Sa983145sons Sur Les MosaiumlquesTard983145ves (983145ve-v983145e S983145egravecles) De La Part983145e Or983145entale Du
Bass983145n Meacuted983145terraneacuteen (Turqu983145e Syr983145e Jordan983145ePalest983145ne)Anne-Soph983145e Deacutecr983145aud
1100 - 1120 Intrecc983145 d983145 l983145nee come trame d983145 f983145l983145 Per un corpus de983145mosa983145c983145 altomed983145eval983145 del VenetoG983145ordana Trovabene
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 3Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 4Moderator Anne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
1215 - 1235 Reflect983145on of Cults and R983145tuels on Mosa983145cs andRel983145efs 983145n Osroene and Other Syr983145an CulturesBarış Salman
Aspects Of Euerget983145sm And Soc983145o Econom983145c ForcesIn Byzant983145ne And Early Islam983145c Mosa983145cs In JordanBasema Hamarneh
1235 - 1255Les Pavements des Thermes Agraversquo octogone De PupputAiumlcha Ben Abed - Roger Hanoune
Mosa983145c Decorat983145on 983145n C983145v983145c Context Late ant983145quepavements from PergeIşıl R Işıklıkaya
1255 - 1315
Derec983145k Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacutegl983145se pour deuxmosaiumlquesM983145chel E FuchsSoph983145e Delbarre-Baumlrtsch983145
Bursa Moza983145kler983145Recep Okccedilu
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
HALL A HALL B
Panel 5Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 6Moderator Aiumlcha Ben Abed
1500 - 1520The VI th century floor mosa983145c of the church ofKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Mar983145a Andaloro - Paola Pogl983145an983145
Erz983145ncan - Altıntepe K983145l983145se Moza983145kler983145B983145rol Can
1520 - 1540The Bas983145l983145ca Of Ag983145o983145 Sarantak983145rklar Tekke In CyprusAnd Its Mosa983145csAndreas Foul983145as
D983145onysos et la mer les mosaiumlques agrave lrsquoeacutepoquehelleacuten983145st983145que et au deacutebut de lrsquoeacutepoque 983145mpeacuter983145aleAnne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexiv
1540 - 1600Early Byzant983145ne Mosa983145cs W983145th Person983145f983145cat983145ons FromTurkey And Syr983145aChr983145st983145ne Kondoleon
El Mosa983145co Pav983145mental De La Basiacutel983145ca De L983145lla Del Re983145G983145sela R983145poll Catal983145na MasM983145guel Aacutengel Cau
1600 - 1620Corpus Of Late Ant983145que And Early Chr983145st983145an Mosa983145csIn Bulgar983145aAlexander L983145rsch
Mosa983145cs In Ant983145och A Morpholog983145cal Observat983145onD983145klah Zohar
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630 - 1640 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 7Moderator Mar983145a Andaloro
Panel 8Moderator B983145rol Can
1640 - 1700Pompe983145opol983145s ( Taşkoumlpruuml )Lu983145sa Musso
La Produz983145one Pav983145mentale Pugl983145ese Tra Tardoant983145coE Med983145oevo Evoluz983145one Tecn983145ca E St983145l983145st983145caCarr983145no Rachele
1700 - 1720La ma983145son des deux l983145ons agrave CarthageAiumlcha Ben-AbedBen Khader - Cather983145ne Balmelle
Putt983145ng In Context Two Mosa983145cs Of Okeanos AndThalassaDelph983145ne Renaut
1720 - 1740
1740 - 1800 DISCUSSION
1900 - 2200 DINNER Mevlev983145 Presentat983145on
17 October 2009 Saturday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 9Moderator Luisa Musso
Panel 10Moderator Asuman Baldıran
0900 - 0920New Mosaics at the Colonia Patricia CordubaFrancesc Josep de Rueda Roigeacute
Parallel Research Fresco Painting Of Chora AndSopocani Violeta C OcokoljicJugoslav Ocokoljic
0920 - 0940Sailing in the Dead Sea - Madaba Map MosaicZaraza Friedman
Mosaique funeacuteraire drsquoOrpheacutee de Jerusalem auMuseacutee Archeacuteologique drsquoIstanbul CompleacutementdrsquoenquecircteMarek Titien Olszewski
0940 - 1000Literary References on Three Roman MosaicPanelsSarah E Cox
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implicationsfor Other RegionsRuth Kolarik
1000 - 1020I Mosaici delle Basiliche Paleocristianedellrsquoisola di CosLorella Maria De Matteis
The Marble Floor Decoration in ConstantinopleProlegomen to a Corpus Alessandra Guiglia
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 11Moderator Derya Şahin
Panel 12Moderator Zaraza Friedman
1040 - 1100
Conservative Approaches In The SynagogueMosaic Pavements In Israel The Cases Of lsquoeinGedi And Sepphoris Zippori Asher Ovadiah
Theatre and Art Mosaics as Evidence forDramatic PerformanceKatherine Dunbabin
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xv
1100 - 1020Late Antique Tombs With Mosaics In AncientHalikarnassosDavid Parrish - Birte Poulsen
A Propos Des Opus Sectile Deacutecouverts Dans LaMaison Du Cours Pourtoules (orange-vaucluse)Eric Morvillez
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 13Moderator Birte Poulsen
Panel 14Moderator Asher Ovadiah
1215 - 1235The Mosaic Pavement of the Early ChristianBasilica At GoumlnenGerme In Mysia laquoHellespontraquoWerner Jobst
Oriental motifs and patterns in the mosaic art ofTarragonaRosario Navarro
1235 - 1255The Vith Century Floor Mosaic Of The Church OfKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) Ulderico Santamaria - Claudia Pelosi
The Marble Omphalos Of The St Sophia OfConstantinople Analysis Of An Opus SectilePavement Of The Middle Byzantine PeriodSilvia Pedone
1255 - 1315Torba Manastır Kompleksi Mozaikleri M Aykut Oumlzet
The Marble Floor Of St John Studius InConstantinople A Forgotten MasterpieceClaudia Barsanti
1315 - 1330Sardisrsquoteki Geccedil Roma-Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaikleriEmine Tok
Mylasa Mozaikleri Abuzer Kızıl
1330 - 1345 DISCUSSION
1400 - 2200 DERECİK ( BUumlYUumlKORHAN ) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
18 October 2009 Sunday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 15Moderator Hakan Mert
Panel 16Moderator Michel E Fuchs
0900 - 0920Basic Criteria for the Preservation of Mosaics AGuide for Archaeologists ISelccediluk Şener
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between Eastand WestZeev Weiss
0920 - 0940
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as aManagement Activity of Archaeological Sites AGuide for Archaeologists IIHande Koumlkten
Une Grande Famille de Deacutecors GeacuteomeacutetriquesBernard Parzysz
0940 - 1000
Display of Ancient Mosaics İn Situ Tourism as anInuential Factor Steering the Decision MakingProcessŞehriguumll Yeşil Erdek
Mosaicos Mitoloacutegicos de Zeugma Y de Hispania Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
1000 - 1020 A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of TurkeyCondition Survey of MosaicsHande Koumlkten
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of SaintEirene at Constantinople Alessandro Taddei
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 2200 IZNIK (NICEA) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexvi
19 October 2009 Monday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 17Moderator Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Panel 18Moderator Veronika Scheibelreiter
0900 - 0920Signs of the Progression of Time in RomanMosaic ArtMaja Kramer
Une Nouvelle Mosaiumlque sur lrsquooppidum drsquoAlegraves(Gard France) Veacuteronique Blanc- BijonFabienne Olmer
0920 - 0940 Antikccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At Ikonograsi Emine Koumlker
The Latest Archaeological Discoveries about theMediana MosaicsGordana Jeremic
0940 - 1000New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa ATorre Annunziata ItalyJohn R Clarke - Lea Cline
Architekturdarstellungen auf roumlmischen MosaikenKleinasienHakan Mert
1000 - 1020Late Antiquity Mosaics in Portugal Virgilio Lopez
Orpheus Some Metaphors in MosaicNeil Cookson
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 19Moderator Selccediluk Şener
Panel 20Moderator Patricia Witts
1040 - 1100Opus Sectile Pavements From Western AsiaMinor Veronika Scheibelreiter
The First Roman Mosaics Discovered in CetobrigaCarlos Tavares da Silva - Joaquina Soares -Liciacutenia Wrench
1100 - 1020
Indagini Archeologiche A Palazzo ValentiniunQuartiere Residenziale Ai Margini Del ForoTraianoPaola Baldassarri
Olympos Mozaikli YapıGeccedil Antik Ccedilağ - Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaiklerinin Teknik ve Stil Değerlendirmesi Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 21Moderator Hande Koumlkten
Panel 22Moderator Liciacutenia Wrench
1215 - 1235Mosaic Studies And Souvenirs Leaving no StoneUnturnedPatricia Witts
The Mosaic of Leukippe and Theonoe in theKointos Villa in ZeugmaPaolo Vitellozzi
1235 - 1255Notice Mosaic of laquothe House of Medusaraquo(portugal Alter do Chatildeo)Maria Teresa Caetano
Metropolis Mozaikleri Ali Kazım Oumlz
1255 - 1315 Zeugma Danae Evinin MozaikleriMehmet Oumlnal
Mosaicos Con la Iconograa de Thethismadre
de Aquiles en Turquia Y en Otros Enclaves delImperio RomanoMercedes Duran Penedo
1315 - 1330 LUNCH
1330 - 1530 AIEMA MEETING
DISENGAGED DINNER
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20 October 2009 Tuesday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 23Moderator Mehmet Onal
Panel 24Moderator Paolo Vitellozzi
0900 - 0920De Que Hablamos Cuando Hablamos de TalleresMusivos Tardios en HispaniaMercedes Torres Carro
The Bejewelled Lady of SinopeFuumlsun Tuumllek
0920 - 0940 A new reading of the Dor mosaicIdit Sagiv-Hayik
Milli Azerbaycan Tarihi Muumlzesinde Hristyan AbideleriFariz Halilli
0940 - 1000Konya Tatkoumly ve Alibeykoumly Houmlyuumlğuuml Mozaikleri Asuman Baldıran- Osman Doğanay
Salamis Kenti Opus Sectile Taban Doumlşemeleri Aytaccedil Coşkun
1000 - 1020Il Mosaico di Metiochos E Parthenope da ZeugmaLucia Romizzi - Andrea Carini
Non-Destructive Investigations on Mosaic of theChurch of the Three HierarchsM Geba - N Vornicu - C Bibire
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 25Moderator Işıl R Işıklıkaya
Panel 26Moderator Luz Neira
1040 - 1100
Late Antique Private Luxury The Mosaic FloorsOf The Urban Mansion Of Sagalassos (ağlasunBurdur)Inge Uytterhoeven - Hande Koumlkten - MarcWaelkens - Markku Corremans
The Role of Late Antique Art in Early ChristianWorship A Reconsideration of the Iconographyof The lsquostarry Skyrsquo in Mosaics of the Late 5th -Early 6th C AdEllen Swift - Anne Alwis
1100 - 1020The Early Christian Mosaics with the Inscriptionsin CroatiaMarija Buzov
La Construccioacuten de las identidades de geacutenero atraveacutes de los mosaicos antioquenosJesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 27Moderator Marija Buzov
Panel 28Moderator Maja Kramer
1215 - 1235Kaunos Kubbeli Kilise Ek Yapısırsquondaki TabanMozaiği Ayşe Aydın
El Thiasos Marino en los Mosaicos Romanos deTurquiacuteaLuz Neira
1235 - 1255
The Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics Bugini RobertoFolli Luisa Portulano BrunellaRofa Elisabetta
A stibadium with a mosaic in the Roman Villa ofRabaccedilal Penela PortugalMiguel Pessoa
1255 - 1315
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romainede Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de AlgarveMaria De Jesus Duran Kremer
Mosaiumlques mythologiques de Zeugma Originaliteacuteet Liens iconographiques avec la peinturepompeacuteienne et les mosaiumlques italiques etafricains du I-II siegravecleLucia Romizzi
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
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HALL A HALL B
Panel 29Moderator Maria Kremer
Panel 30Moderator Miguel Pessoa
1500 - 1520
The Vases Representation (cantharus Crater)on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Signicant
Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late AntiquityFilomena Limatildeo
The Rape of Hylas and the Spectacles of the Amphitheatre on a Floor Mosaic from Volubilis
(Morocco)Margherita Carucci
1520 - 1540The Herakles mosaic discovered in Homs (Syria)Komait Abdallah
Myndos MosaicsDerya Şahin
1540 - 1600Les Mosaiumlques Agrave Thegraveme MythologiqueReacutecemment Deacutecouvertes Agrave NicircmesJean-yves Breuil
A Late Antique Residence in Augusta TraianaProvince of ThraceJulia Valeva
1600 - 1620Floor mosaics from a Roman villa in NinJagoda Meder
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of ItalicaFirmament ImagesIrene Mantildeas Romero
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630FREE TIME- BURSA -
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KISALTMALAR ABBREVIATIONS
AA Archaeologischer Anzeiger
Abulg Archaeologia Bulgarica
Acontia Acontia Revista de arqueologiacutea
ActaInstRomFin Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae
AEspA Archivo espantildeol de arqueologiacutea
AISCOM LrsquoAssociazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico
AJA American Journal of Archaelology
AJug Archaeologia JugoslavicaAM Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts Athenische Abteilung
AMethTh Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
AMS Asia Minor Studien
AnatoliaA Anatolia Antiqua
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der roumlmischen Welt
AnSt Anatolian Studies
AntAfr Antiquiteacutes africaines
AntigCr Antiguumledad y Cristianismo Monografiacuteas histoacutericas sobre la antiguumledad tardiacutea
AntK Antike Kunst
AntTard Antiquiteacute tardive Revue internationale drsquohistoire et drsquoarcheacuteologie
APregl Arheološki pregled Arheološko društvo JugoslavijeAquilNost Aquileia nostra Bollettino dellrsquoAssociazione nazionale per Aquileia
ArchCl Archeologia classica
Archeologia Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Published by the Society ofAntiquaries of London
ArtB The Art Bulletin
ASSAPH Assaph Studies in Art History
AST Araştırma Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
Atiqot Atiqot Journal of the Israel Department of Antiquities
AttiMemIstria Atti e memorie della Societagrave istriana di archeologia e storia patria
AW Antike Welt Zeitschrift fuumlr Archaumlologie und Kulturgeschichte
BAA Bulletin drsquoarcheologie algerienneBABesch Bulletin antieke beschaving Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology
BAcHist Boletiacuten de la Real academia de la historia
Baetica Baetica Estudios de arte geografiacutea e historia
BAR British Archaeological Reports British Series
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BCH Bulletin de correspondance helleacutenique
BCom Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma
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BCTH Bulletin archeacuteologique du Comiteacute des travaux historiques et scientifiques Paris
BdA Bollettino drsquoarte
BEFAR Bibliothegraveque des Ecoles franccedilaises drsquoAthegravenes et de Rome
Belleten Belleten Tuumlrk Tarih Kurumu
BJb Bonner Jahrbuumlcher des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn
BMQ The British Museum Quarterly BMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
Boreas Boreas Muumlnstersche Beitraumlge zur Archaumlologie
BSA The British school of Archaeology at Athens
BSEAA Boletin del Seminario de estudios de arte y arqueologia
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
BT Babylonian Talmud
BullAIEMA Bulletin de lrsquoAssociation internationale pour lrsquoetude de la mosaique antique
BullMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
CArch Cahiers archeacuteologiques
CEDAC CEDAC Bulletin Centre drsquoeacutetudes et de documentation archeacuteologique de la conservation deCartage
CEFR Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome
Chiron Chiron Mitteilungen der Kommission fuumlr Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des DeutschenArchaumlologischen Instituts
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
ClJ The Classical Journal
CMG Convegni di studi sulla Magna Grecia
CMGR I La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane I H STERN - G Ch PICARD (eds) Paris 1965 (Actes du Iercolloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Paris 30 aoucirct-3 septembre 1963)
CMGR II La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane II H STERN - M LE GAY (eds) Paris 1975 (Actes du IIe
colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Vienne-Isegravere 30 aoucirct-4septembre 1971)
CMGR III III Colloquio internazionale sul mosaico antico R FARIOLI CAMPANATI (eacuted) Ravenna1983 (Actes du IIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Ravenna6-10 septembre 1980)
CMGR IV La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane IV J -P DARMON - A REBOURG (eds) Paris 1994 (Actesdu IVe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique TregravevesTrier 8-14 aoucirct1984)
CMGR V Fifth Interneational Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics 1 - 2 P Johnson R Ling D J Smith(eds) Ann Arbor M1 1994 and 1995 (Actes du V e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de lamosaiumlque antique Bath 5-12 septembre 1987) (JRA supp9)
CMGR VI VI Col loquio internacional s obre mosaico ant iquo Palenc ia-Meacuterida Octubre 199 0D Fernandez GALIANO (ed) Guadalajara 1994 (Actes du VIe colloque international pour
lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Palencia-Meacuterida octobre 1990)CMGR VII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VII M ENNAIFER - A REBOURG (eds) Tunis 1999 (Actes
du VIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Tunis 3-7 octobre 1994)
CMGR VIII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VIII D PAUNNIER - Chr SCHMIDT (eds) Lausanne 2001(Actes du VIIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevaleLausanne 6-11 octobre 1997) Cahiers drsquoArcheacuteologie Romande 85-86
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviations xxi
CMGR IX La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine IX Heacutelegravene MORLIER (eacuted) Rome 2005 (Actes du IXe colloqueinternational pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome Eacutecole franccedilaisePalazzo Altemps 5 ndash 10 novembre 2001) (Coll EFR 352) (2 vol)
CMGR X La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine X (in Publised)
CMGR XI XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve AntikDoumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi Mozaiklerin Başlan-gıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi Stil ve Teknik uumlzerine Sorular 11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS Mosaics of Turkey andParallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World Questions ofIconography Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late ByzantineEra Mustafa ŞAHİN (Ed) Bursa 2009 (İstanbul 2011)
DNP Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopaumldie der Antike
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Empuacuteries Empuacuteries Revista de prehistograveria arqueologia i etnologia
EPRO Etudes preacuteliminaires aux religions orientales dans lrsquoempire romain
ExcIsr Excavations and Surveys in Israel
Expedition Expedition The Magazine of Archaeology Anthropology
FiE Forschungen in EphesosForschungen I -III Forschungen in Salona I Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institute
Gallia Gallia Fouilles et monuments archeacuteologiques en France metropolitaine
Habis Habis Universidad de Sevilla Arqueologiacutea filologiacutea claacutesica
Historia Historia Zeitschrift fuumlr Alte Geschichte
HistriaAnt Histria antiqua Casopis Međunarodnog Istraživačkog Centra za Arheologiju Journal of theInternational Research Centre for Archeology
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Iliria Iliria Revisteuml arkeologjike
IMT Paul Gauckler Inventaire des mosaiumlques de la Gaule et de lrsquoAfrique tome II AfriqueProconsulaire (Tunisie) Paris 1910 Suppleacutement Alfred Merlin Paris 1915
IstForsch Istanbuler Forschungen
IstMitt Istanbuler Mitteilungen
IvE Inschriften griechischer Staumldte aus Kleinasien
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JAT Journal of Ancient Topography - Rivista di topografia antica
JbAC Jahrbuch fuumlr Antike und Christentum
JbOumlByz Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JdI Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts
JHS The Journal of Hellenic Studies
JMR Journal of Mosaic Research
JOumlAI Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in WienJOumlB Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
JRS The Journal of Roman Studies
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
Klio Klio Beitraumlge zur alten Geschichte
Kokalos Kώκαλος Studi pubblicati dallacuteIstituto di storia antica dellacuteUniversitagrave di Palermo
KST Kazı Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxxii
LA Liber Annuus Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Jeacuterusalem
Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
Le Deacutecor II C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J-P DARMON S GOZLAN M-P RAYNAUDLe deacutecor geacuteomeacutetrique de la Mosaiumlque Romaine II Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif desdeacutecors centreacutes Paris 2002
LIMC Lexikon iconographicum mythologiae classicaeLLAuml Lexikon der AumlgyptologieLRAC Reallexikon fuumlr Antike und Christentum
LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Mainake Mainake Estudios de arqueologiacutea Malaguentildea
MEFR Melanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome
MEFRA Meacutelanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome Antiquiteacute
MEFRM Meacutelanges de lrsquoEacutecole Franccedilaise de Rome Moyen Age
MitChrA Mitteilungen zur christlichen Archaumlologie
MKKS Muumlze Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu
MM Madrider Mitteilungen
Museacuteon Le Museacuteon Revue drsquoeacutetudes orientales
OumlJh Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in Wien
OpArch Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom Opuscula archaeologica
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Peristil Peristil Zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti
PriloziZagreb Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu
QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine
RA Revue archeacuteologique
RACr Rivista di archeologia cristiana
RB Revue biblique
RBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen Kunst Begruumlndet von K Wessel und M Restle Herausgege-Herausgege-ben von M Restle (Stuttgart)
RCHM Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
RHVaud Revue historique vaudoise
StudMisc Peter Johnson - Roger Ling - David J Smith (ed) Fifth International Colloquium on AncientMosaics held at Bath England on September 5 ndash 12 Ann Arbor Michigan 1994 et 1995(Actes du Ve colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique) (JRA SupplementarySeries 9) (2 vol)
TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
Traditio Traditio Studies in Ancient and Medieval History Thought and Religion
TuumlrkAD Tuumlrk Arkeoloji Dergisi
WO Die Welt des Orients
ZDPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaumlstina-Vereins
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Marek Titien OLSZEWSKI
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 659
1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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Marek Titien Olszewski662
was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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Bildiriler soyadı sırasına goumlre sıralanmıştır Bu kitapta yayınlanan bildirilerdeki bilimsel iccedilerik ve dil sorumluluğu yazarlarına aittir Kaynak goumlsterilerek alıntı yapılabilir
e papers are arranged in an ordered of surname e content and language responsibility are belong to the authorsIf you show the source you can be quoted e quoted can be showed with source
Bu kitap TUumlBİTAKrsquoın maddi desteği ile basılmıştır
is book was published by the financial support of TUBITAK
TC
KUumlLTUumlRVE TURİZM BAKANLIĞI
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KURULLAR COMMITTEE
Organizasyon Komitesi Organizing Committee
Onursal Başkan Honorary President
Prof Dr Mete CengizRector of Uludag University Uludağ Uumlniversitesi Rektoumlruuml
Onur Kurulu Honorary CommitteeErtuğrul Guumlnay
Kuumlltuumlr ve Turizm Bakanı Minister of Culture and Tourism
Şahabettin HarputBursa Valisi Governor of Bursa
Recep AltepeBursa Buumlyuumlkşehir Belediye Başkanı Mayor of metropolitan municipality of Bursa
Sempozyum Başkanı Symposium PresidentProf Dr Mustafa Şahin
Başkan Yardımcısı Vice PresidentDr Derya Şahin
Sempozyum Sekreterleri Symposium SecretariesAli Altın - Başak Emir
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Bilimsel Komite Scientific CommitteeProf Dr Mustafa ŞahinProf Dr Henri Lavagne
Prof Dr Catherine BalmelleProf Dr David ParrishProf Dr Werner Jobst
Prof Dr Michael Fuchs
Prof Dr Anne-Marie Guimier-SorbetsProf Dr Demetrios MichaelideProf Dr Giordana Trovabene
Prof Dr Janine Balty Prof Dr Federico Guidobaldi
Prof Dr Guadalupe Lopez MonteagudoProf Dr Asher OvadiahDoccedil Dr Guumlrcan PolatDoccedil Dr İ Hakan Mert
Dr Aiumlcha Ben-AbedDr Jean-Pierre Darmon
Dr Derya ŞahinDr Patricia Witts
Miguel Pessoa
Lokal Organizasyon Komitesi Local Organizing CommitteeProf Dr Zeren Tanındı
Prof Dr Selccediluk KırlıProf Dr İsmail Naci Canguumll
Ass Prof Hakan MertAss Prof Guumlrcan Polat
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İCcedilİNDEKİLER TABLE OF CONTENTS
Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xiii
Kısaltmalar Abreviations xix
Giriş xxiii
Foreword xxv
Komait Abdallah
Mosaiumlque drsquoHeacuteraclegraves deacutecouverte agrave Homs (Syrie centrale) 1
Maria Andaloro ndash Paola Pogliani
e 6 th Century Mosaic Floor of the Church of Kuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) A Model for an Integrated Analysis between Knowledge Conservation and Documentation 15
Ayşe Aydın
Das Fussbodenmosaik des Annexbaus in der Kuppelkirche in Kaunos e Floor Mosaics at the Annex Building of the Domed Church 31
Paola Baldassarri
Archaeological Excavations at Palazzo Valentini A Residential Area in the Shade of the Trajanrsquos Forum 43
Catherine Balmelle ndash Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader ndash Fathi Bejaoui La Maison des Deux Lions agrave Carthage 69
Claudia Barsanti
e Marble Floor of St John Studius in Constantinople A Neglected Masterpiece 87
Aiumlcha Ben Abed amp Roger Hanoune
Les pavements mosaiumlqueacutes des ermes agrave lrsquooctagone de Pupput (Hammamet Tunisie) 99
Jesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
e Social Construction of Gender Identities through the Ancient Mosaics from Antioch 107
Veacuteronique Blanc-Bijon ndash Fabienne Olmer avec la collaboration de Marie-Laure Courboulegraves
Une nouvelle mosaiumlque sur lrsquo oppidum de lrsquoErmitage agrave Alegraves (Gard France) 121
Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Mythology in Mosaics of Zeugma and Hispania Similarities and Differences 137
Roberto Bugini ndash Luisa Folli ndash Brunella Portulano ndash Elisabetta Roffia
e Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics A Case-Study in Northern Italy 163
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İccedilindekiler Table of Contents viii
Marija Buzov
e Early Christian Mosaics with Inscription in Croatia 171
Javier Cabrero Piquero
A New Hispano-Roman Mosaic with the Story of Meleager 193
Maria Teresa Caetano ndash Caacutetia Mouratildeo A ldquoPortraitrdquo of Book XII of the AEligneid Mosaic from the laquo House of the Medusa raquo (Alter do Chatildeo Portugal) 205
Birol Can
Technical Stylistic Iconographic Evaluation and Dating of Mosaics of Altıntepe Church 225
Margherita Carucci
An Example of Visual Humour on a Romano-African Mosaic Putting Images in their Context 235
John R Clarke ndash Lea Cline
New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa A Torre Annunziata - Italy - 50 BC ndash AD 79 247
Neil Cookson
Orpheus Some Metaphors in Mosaic 259
Violeta Cvetkovska Ocokoljic ndash Jugoslav Ocokoljic
Parallel Research Fresco Painting of Chora and Sopocani 269
Jean-Pierre Darmon
Une eacutenigme enfin reacutesolue la fausse Iphigeacutenie drsquoAntioche eacutetait une Alceste 283
Carlos Tavares da Silva ndash Joaquina Soares ndash Liciacutenia Nunes Correia Wrench
Les premiegraveres mosaiumlques romaines deacutecouvertes agrave Caetobriga (Setuacutebal Portugal) 295
Anne-Sophie Decriaud
Les Saisons personnifieacutees sur les mosaiumlques romaines tardives (IV e
-VI e
siegravecles) de la partie orientaledu Bassin meacutediterraneacuteen (Turquie Syrie Liban Israeumll Jordanie) 309
Sophie Delbarre-Baumlrtschi
Les mosaiumlques romaines en Suisse 333
Lorella Maria de Matteis
e Mosaics of the Early Christian Basilicas on the Island of Kos 339
Maria de Jesus Duran Kremer
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romaine de Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de lrsquoAlgarve 353
Mercedes Duraacuten Penedo Mosaicos con la iconografiacutea de etis madre de Aquiles en Turquiacutea y en otros enclaves del Imperio 363
Andreas M Foulias
e Basilica of Agioi Saranta Kırklar Tekke in Cyprus and its Mosaics 381
Zaraza Friedman
Ships Depicted in the Madaba Map Mosaic 391
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İccedilindekiler Table of Contents ix
Michel E Fuchs ndash Sophie Delbarre-Baumlrtschi
Derecik Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacuteglise pour deux mosaiumlques 405
Alessandra Guiglia Guidobaldi
e Marble Floor Decoration in Constantinople Prolegomena to a Corpus 413
Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets Les thegravemes dionysiaques sur les mosaiumlques helleacutenistiques drsquoAsie Mineure (Turquie) 437
Bertrand Houix ndash Veacuteronique Blanc-Bijon ndash Jean-Yves Breuil ndash Jean-Pierre Darmon ndashPascale Linant de Bellefonds
Mosaiumlques agrave thegravemes mythologiques reacutecemment deacutecouvertes sous lrsquoavenue Jean-Jaures agrave Nimes (France) 447
Işıl Rabia Işıklıkaya-Laubscher
Mosaics in Perge Preliminary Report on the Mosaics of the Macellum 467
Werner Jobst
Das Mosaikpaviment der fruumlhchristlichen Basilika von GoumlnenGerme in Mysien (Hellespont) 483
Lyudmila G KhrushkovaOpus Sectile Pavements in the Crimea and on the East Coast of the Black Sea 505
Ruth Kolarik
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implications for other Regions 519
Emine Koumlker
Antik Ccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At İkonografisi 531
Maja Kramer
Signs of Progression in the Personifications of the Seasons in Roman Mosaics e Artistic Approach Procedures and Tools Used by the Craftsmen to Relate the Viewer to the Experience of the Passing of Time 547
Delphine Lauritzen
Mosaiumlques drsquoOkeacuteanos et de alassa agrave Zurich Une proposition de mise en perspective 555
Filomena Limatildeo
e Vasersquos Representation (Cantharus Crater) on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Significant Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late Antiquity 565
Virgiacutelio Lopes
Late Antiquity in Portugal e Mosaics 585
Guadalupe Loacutepez Monteagudo
Opora through East and West Abundance Allegories in Mosaics of Spain and Turkey 597
Irene Mantildeas Romero
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of Italica Firmament Images 615
Luz Neira
e Sea iasos of Nereids and Tritons in the Roman Mosaics of Turkey 631
Marek Titien Olszewski
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 655
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İccedilindekiler Table of Contentsx
Marek Titien Olszewski ndash Piotr Zakrzewski
e Decoration of the Dining Rooms at Ptolemais in Cyrenaica (Libya) in the Light of the Last Researches 665
Elda Omari
e History and Development of Mosaics in Albania (4th 3rd Century BC ndash 6 th Century AD) 675
Asher OvadiahConservative Approaches in the Ancient Synagogue Mosaic Pavements in Israele Cases of lsquoEin Gedi and SepphorisZippori 693
Ali Kazım Oumlz
e Mosaics of Metropolis in Ionia 701
Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
Building with Mosaics of Olympos Mosaics of Late Ancient Era ndash Early Byzantine Period 709
David Parrish - Birte Poulsen
Late Antique Tombs with Mosaics in Ancient Halikarnassos 721
Bernard ParzyszUne grande famille de deacutecors geacuteomeacutetriques 735
Silvia Pedone
e Marble Omphalos of Saint Sophia in Constantinople An Analysis of an Opus Sectile Pavement of Middle Byzantine Age 749
Claudia Pelosi ndash Ulderico Santamaria
e 6 th Century AD Floor Mosaic of the Church of Kuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Characterization of the Constitutive Materials Finding of the Quarries of Origin 769
Miguel Pessoa
Stibadium with a Mosaic in the Roman Villa of Rabaccedilal Penela Portugal 779Vania Popova ndash Alexander Lirsch
Corpus of Late Antique and Early Christian Mosaics in Bulgaria 793
Manuel Romero ndash Sebastiaacuten Vargas
Mosaic Workshop Located in the Villa de la Estacioacuten de Antequera Maacutelaga (Espantildea) 823
Idit Sagiv-Hayik
e Hellenistic Mosaic of Dor ndash Figural Image or eatrical Mask 829
Barış Salman
Reflection of Some Cults and Rituels on Mosaics and Reliefs in Osroene and Other Syrian Cultures 843
M Pilar San Nicolaacutes Pedraz
On a Mosaic from Maacutelaga with the Depiction of ZeusJupiter and Antiope 853
Derya Şahin
Myndos Mosaics 865
Y Selccediluk Şener
Mozaiklerin Korunmasında Temel Kriterler 873
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Alessandro Taddei
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of Saint Eirene at Constantinople 883
Giordana Trovabene
Knots of Lines like Weaves of reads A Corpus of Early Medieval Mosaics in ldquoVenetordquo 897
Fuumlsun Tuumlleke Bejewelled Lady of Sinope 921
Julia Valeva
Une riche domus de Stara Zagora ( Augusta Trajana-Beroe ) Publication preacuteliminaire 927
Zeev Weiss
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between East and West 941
Patricia Witts
Mosaic Studies and Souvenirs 953
Şehriguumll Yeşil-Erdek
Display of Ancient Mosaics Tourism as an Influential Factor Steering the Decision Making Process 963
Diklah Zohar
Application Procedures of Mosaics and the Division of Production Work Examples from Madaba Beth Alpha and Antioch 969
Hande Koumlkten
A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of Turkey Condition Survey of Mosaics 975
Hande Koumlkten
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as a Management Activity of Archaeological Sites 983
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BİLİMSEL PROGRAM SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
16 October 2009 Fr983145day
0900 - 1040 Open983145ng Ceremony OumlRDEKLİ COMPLEX
HALL A HALL B
Panel 1Moderator Dav983145d Parr983145sh
Panel 2Moderator Werner Jobst
1040 - 1100
La Fausse Iph983145geacuten983145e Dant983145oche Une Eacuten983145gme Enf983145n
ReacutesolueJean - P983145erre Darmon
Les Personn983145f983145cat983145ons Des Sa983145sons Sur Les MosaiumlquesTard983145ves (983145ve-v983145e S983145egravecles) De La Part983145e Or983145entale Du
Bass983145n Meacuted983145terraneacuteen (Turqu983145e Syr983145e Jordan983145ePalest983145ne)Anne-Soph983145e Deacutecr983145aud
1100 - 1120 Intrecc983145 d983145 l983145nee come trame d983145 f983145l983145 Per un corpus de983145mosa983145c983145 altomed983145eval983145 del VenetoG983145ordana Trovabene
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 3Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 4Moderator Anne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
1215 - 1235 Reflect983145on of Cults and R983145tuels on Mosa983145cs andRel983145efs 983145n Osroene and Other Syr983145an CulturesBarış Salman
Aspects Of Euerget983145sm And Soc983145o Econom983145c ForcesIn Byzant983145ne And Early Islam983145c Mosa983145cs In JordanBasema Hamarneh
1235 - 1255Les Pavements des Thermes Agraversquo octogone De PupputAiumlcha Ben Abed - Roger Hanoune
Mosa983145c Decorat983145on 983145n C983145v983145c Context Late ant983145quepavements from PergeIşıl R Işıklıkaya
1255 - 1315
Derec983145k Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacutegl983145se pour deuxmosaiumlquesM983145chel E FuchsSoph983145e Delbarre-Baumlrtsch983145
Bursa Moza983145kler983145Recep Okccedilu
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
HALL A HALL B
Panel 5Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 6Moderator Aiumlcha Ben Abed
1500 - 1520The VI th century floor mosa983145c of the church ofKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Mar983145a Andaloro - Paola Pogl983145an983145
Erz983145ncan - Altıntepe K983145l983145se Moza983145kler983145B983145rol Can
1520 - 1540The Bas983145l983145ca Of Ag983145o983145 Sarantak983145rklar Tekke In CyprusAnd Its Mosa983145csAndreas Foul983145as
D983145onysos et la mer les mosaiumlques agrave lrsquoeacutepoquehelleacuten983145st983145que et au deacutebut de lrsquoeacutepoque 983145mpeacuter983145aleAnne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexiv
1540 - 1600Early Byzant983145ne Mosa983145cs W983145th Person983145f983145cat983145ons FromTurkey And Syr983145aChr983145st983145ne Kondoleon
El Mosa983145co Pav983145mental De La Basiacutel983145ca De L983145lla Del Re983145G983145sela R983145poll Catal983145na MasM983145guel Aacutengel Cau
1600 - 1620Corpus Of Late Ant983145que And Early Chr983145st983145an Mosa983145csIn Bulgar983145aAlexander L983145rsch
Mosa983145cs In Ant983145och A Morpholog983145cal Observat983145onD983145klah Zohar
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630 - 1640 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 7Moderator Mar983145a Andaloro
Panel 8Moderator B983145rol Can
1640 - 1700Pompe983145opol983145s ( Taşkoumlpruuml )Lu983145sa Musso
La Produz983145one Pav983145mentale Pugl983145ese Tra Tardoant983145coE Med983145oevo Evoluz983145one Tecn983145ca E St983145l983145st983145caCarr983145no Rachele
1700 - 1720La ma983145son des deux l983145ons agrave CarthageAiumlcha Ben-AbedBen Khader - Cather983145ne Balmelle
Putt983145ng In Context Two Mosa983145cs Of Okeanos AndThalassaDelph983145ne Renaut
1720 - 1740
1740 - 1800 DISCUSSION
1900 - 2200 DINNER Mevlev983145 Presentat983145on
17 October 2009 Saturday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 9Moderator Luisa Musso
Panel 10Moderator Asuman Baldıran
0900 - 0920New Mosaics at the Colonia Patricia CordubaFrancesc Josep de Rueda Roigeacute
Parallel Research Fresco Painting Of Chora AndSopocani Violeta C OcokoljicJugoslav Ocokoljic
0920 - 0940Sailing in the Dead Sea - Madaba Map MosaicZaraza Friedman
Mosaique funeacuteraire drsquoOrpheacutee de Jerusalem auMuseacutee Archeacuteologique drsquoIstanbul CompleacutementdrsquoenquecircteMarek Titien Olszewski
0940 - 1000Literary References on Three Roman MosaicPanelsSarah E Cox
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implicationsfor Other RegionsRuth Kolarik
1000 - 1020I Mosaici delle Basiliche Paleocristianedellrsquoisola di CosLorella Maria De Matteis
The Marble Floor Decoration in ConstantinopleProlegomen to a Corpus Alessandra Guiglia
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 11Moderator Derya Şahin
Panel 12Moderator Zaraza Friedman
1040 - 1100
Conservative Approaches In The SynagogueMosaic Pavements In Israel The Cases Of lsquoeinGedi And Sepphoris Zippori Asher Ovadiah
Theatre and Art Mosaics as Evidence forDramatic PerformanceKatherine Dunbabin
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xv
1100 - 1020Late Antique Tombs With Mosaics In AncientHalikarnassosDavid Parrish - Birte Poulsen
A Propos Des Opus Sectile Deacutecouverts Dans LaMaison Du Cours Pourtoules (orange-vaucluse)Eric Morvillez
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 13Moderator Birte Poulsen
Panel 14Moderator Asher Ovadiah
1215 - 1235The Mosaic Pavement of the Early ChristianBasilica At GoumlnenGerme In Mysia laquoHellespontraquoWerner Jobst
Oriental motifs and patterns in the mosaic art ofTarragonaRosario Navarro
1235 - 1255The Vith Century Floor Mosaic Of The Church OfKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) Ulderico Santamaria - Claudia Pelosi
The Marble Omphalos Of The St Sophia OfConstantinople Analysis Of An Opus SectilePavement Of The Middle Byzantine PeriodSilvia Pedone
1255 - 1315Torba Manastır Kompleksi Mozaikleri M Aykut Oumlzet
The Marble Floor Of St John Studius InConstantinople A Forgotten MasterpieceClaudia Barsanti
1315 - 1330Sardisrsquoteki Geccedil Roma-Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaikleriEmine Tok
Mylasa Mozaikleri Abuzer Kızıl
1330 - 1345 DISCUSSION
1400 - 2200 DERECİK ( BUumlYUumlKORHAN ) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
18 October 2009 Sunday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 15Moderator Hakan Mert
Panel 16Moderator Michel E Fuchs
0900 - 0920Basic Criteria for the Preservation of Mosaics AGuide for Archaeologists ISelccediluk Şener
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between Eastand WestZeev Weiss
0920 - 0940
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as aManagement Activity of Archaeological Sites AGuide for Archaeologists IIHande Koumlkten
Une Grande Famille de Deacutecors GeacuteomeacutetriquesBernard Parzysz
0940 - 1000
Display of Ancient Mosaics İn Situ Tourism as anInuential Factor Steering the Decision MakingProcessŞehriguumll Yeşil Erdek
Mosaicos Mitoloacutegicos de Zeugma Y de Hispania Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
1000 - 1020 A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of TurkeyCondition Survey of MosaicsHande Koumlkten
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of SaintEirene at Constantinople Alessandro Taddei
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 2200 IZNIK (NICEA) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexvi
19 October 2009 Monday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 17Moderator Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Panel 18Moderator Veronika Scheibelreiter
0900 - 0920Signs of the Progression of Time in RomanMosaic ArtMaja Kramer
Une Nouvelle Mosaiumlque sur lrsquooppidum drsquoAlegraves(Gard France) Veacuteronique Blanc- BijonFabienne Olmer
0920 - 0940 Antikccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At Ikonograsi Emine Koumlker
The Latest Archaeological Discoveries about theMediana MosaicsGordana Jeremic
0940 - 1000New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa ATorre Annunziata ItalyJohn R Clarke - Lea Cline
Architekturdarstellungen auf roumlmischen MosaikenKleinasienHakan Mert
1000 - 1020Late Antiquity Mosaics in Portugal Virgilio Lopez
Orpheus Some Metaphors in MosaicNeil Cookson
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 19Moderator Selccediluk Şener
Panel 20Moderator Patricia Witts
1040 - 1100Opus Sectile Pavements From Western AsiaMinor Veronika Scheibelreiter
The First Roman Mosaics Discovered in CetobrigaCarlos Tavares da Silva - Joaquina Soares -Liciacutenia Wrench
1100 - 1020
Indagini Archeologiche A Palazzo ValentiniunQuartiere Residenziale Ai Margini Del ForoTraianoPaola Baldassarri
Olympos Mozaikli YapıGeccedil Antik Ccedilağ - Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaiklerinin Teknik ve Stil Değerlendirmesi Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 21Moderator Hande Koumlkten
Panel 22Moderator Liciacutenia Wrench
1215 - 1235Mosaic Studies And Souvenirs Leaving no StoneUnturnedPatricia Witts
The Mosaic of Leukippe and Theonoe in theKointos Villa in ZeugmaPaolo Vitellozzi
1235 - 1255Notice Mosaic of laquothe House of Medusaraquo(portugal Alter do Chatildeo)Maria Teresa Caetano
Metropolis Mozaikleri Ali Kazım Oumlz
1255 - 1315 Zeugma Danae Evinin MozaikleriMehmet Oumlnal
Mosaicos Con la Iconograa de Thethismadre
de Aquiles en Turquia Y en Otros Enclaves delImperio RomanoMercedes Duran Penedo
1315 - 1330 LUNCH
1330 - 1530 AIEMA MEETING
DISENGAGED DINNER
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xvii
20 October 2009 Tuesday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 23Moderator Mehmet Onal
Panel 24Moderator Paolo Vitellozzi
0900 - 0920De Que Hablamos Cuando Hablamos de TalleresMusivos Tardios en HispaniaMercedes Torres Carro
The Bejewelled Lady of SinopeFuumlsun Tuumllek
0920 - 0940 A new reading of the Dor mosaicIdit Sagiv-Hayik
Milli Azerbaycan Tarihi Muumlzesinde Hristyan AbideleriFariz Halilli
0940 - 1000Konya Tatkoumly ve Alibeykoumly Houmlyuumlğuuml Mozaikleri Asuman Baldıran- Osman Doğanay
Salamis Kenti Opus Sectile Taban Doumlşemeleri Aytaccedil Coşkun
1000 - 1020Il Mosaico di Metiochos E Parthenope da ZeugmaLucia Romizzi - Andrea Carini
Non-Destructive Investigations on Mosaic of theChurch of the Three HierarchsM Geba - N Vornicu - C Bibire
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 25Moderator Işıl R Işıklıkaya
Panel 26Moderator Luz Neira
1040 - 1100
Late Antique Private Luxury The Mosaic FloorsOf The Urban Mansion Of Sagalassos (ağlasunBurdur)Inge Uytterhoeven - Hande Koumlkten - MarcWaelkens - Markku Corremans
The Role of Late Antique Art in Early ChristianWorship A Reconsideration of the Iconographyof The lsquostarry Skyrsquo in Mosaics of the Late 5th -Early 6th C AdEllen Swift - Anne Alwis
1100 - 1020The Early Christian Mosaics with the Inscriptionsin CroatiaMarija Buzov
La Construccioacuten de las identidades de geacutenero atraveacutes de los mosaicos antioquenosJesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 27Moderator Marija Buzov
Panel 28Moderator Maja Kramer
1215 - 1235Kaunos Kubbeli Kilise Ek Yapısırsquondaki TabanMozaiği Ayşe Aydın
El Thiasos Marino en los Mosaicos Romanos deTurquiacuteaLuz Neira
1235 - 1255
The Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics Bugini RobertoFolli Luisa Portulano BrunellaRofa Elisabetta
A stibadium with a mosaic in the Roman Villa ofRabaccedilal Penela PortugalMiguel Pessoa
1255 - 1315
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romainede Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de AlgarveMaria De Jesus Duran Kremer
Mosaiumlques mythologiques de Zeugma Originaliteacuteet Liens iconographiques avec la peinturepompeacuteienne et les mosaiumlques italiques etafricains du I-II siegravecleLucia Romizzi
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexviii
HALL A HALL B
Panel 29Moderator Maria Kremer
Panel 30Moderator Miguel Pessoa
1500 - 1520
The Vases Representation (cantharus Crater)on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Signicant
Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late AntiquityFilomena Limatildeo
The Rape of Hylas and the Spectacles of the Amphitheatre on a Floor Mosaic from Volubilis
(Morocco)Margherita Carucci
1520 - 1540The Herakles mosaic discovered in Homs (Syria)Komait Abdallah
Myndos MosaicsDerya Şahin
1540 - 1600Les Mosaiumlques Agrave Thegraveme MythologiqueReacutecemment Deacutecouvertes Agrave NicircmesJean-yves Breuil
A Late Antique Residence in Augusta TraianaProvince of ThraceJulia Valeva
1600 - 1620Floor mosaics from a Roman villa in NinJagoda Meder
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of ItalicaFirmament ImagesIrene Mantildeas Romero
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630FREE TIME- BURSA -
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KISALTMALAR ABBREVIATIONS
AA Archaeologischer Anzeiger
Abulg Archaeologia Bulgarica
Acontia Acontia Revista de arqueologiacutea
ActaInstRomFin Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae
AEspA Archivo espantildeol de arqueologiacutea
AISCOM LrsquoAssociazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico
AJA American Journal of Archaelology
AJug Archaeologia JugoslavicaAM Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts Athenische Abteilung
AMethTh Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
AMS Asia Minor Studien
AnatoliaA Anatolia Antiqua
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der roumlmischen Welt
AnSt Anatolian Studies
AntAfr Antiquiteacutes africaines
AntigCr Antiguumledad y Cristianismo Monografiacuteas histoacutericas sobre la antiguumledad tardiacutea
AntK Antike Kunst
AntTard Antiquiteacute tardive Revue internationale drsquohistoire et drsquoarcheacuteologie
APregl Arheološki pregled Arheološko društvo JugoslavijeAquilNost Aquileia nostra Bollettino dellrsquoAssociazione nazionale per Aquileia
ArchCl Archeologia classica
Archeologia Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Published by the Society ofAntiquaries of London
ArtB The Art Bulletin
ASSAPH Assaph Studies in Art History
AST Araştırma Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
Atiqot Atiqot Journal of the Israel Department of Antiquities
AttiMemIstria Atti e memorie della Societagrave istriana di archeologia e storia patria
AW Antike Welt Zeitschrift fuumlr Archaumlologie und Kulturgeschichte
BAA Bulletin drsquoarcheologie algerienneBABesch Bulletin antieke beschaving Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology
BAcHist Boletiacuten de la Real academia de la historia
Baetica Baetica Estudios de arte geografiacutea e historia
BAR British Archaeological Reports British Series
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BCH Bulletin de correspondance helleacutenique
BCom Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma
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BCTH Bulletin archeacuteologique du Comiteacute des travaux historiques et scientifiques Paris
BdA Bollettino drsquoarte
BEFAR Bibliothegraveque des Ecoles franccedilaises drsquoAthegravenes et de Rome
Belleten Belleten Tuumlrk Tarih Kurumu
BJb Bonner Jahrbuumlcher des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn
BMQ The British Museum Quarterly BMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
Boreas Boreas Muumlnstersche Beitraumlge zur Archaumlologie
BSA The British school of Archaeology at Athens
BSEAA Boletin del Seminario de estudios de arte y arqueologia
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
BT Babylonian Talmud
BullAIEMA Bulletin de lrsquoAssociation internationale pour lrsquoetude de la mosaique antique
BullMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
CArch Cahiers archeacuteologiques
CEDAC CEDAC Bulletin Centre drsquoeacutetudes et de documentation archeacuteologique de la conservation deCartage
CEFR Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome
Chiron Chiron Mitteilungen der Kommission fuumlr Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des DeutschenArchaumlologischen Instituts
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
ClJ The Classical Journal
CMG Convegni di studi sulla Magna Grecia
CMGR I La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane I H STERN - G Ch PICARD (eds) Paris 1965 (Actes du Iercolloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Paris 30 aoucirct-3 septembre 1963)
CMGR II La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane II H STERN - M LE GAY (eds) Paris 1975 (Actes du IIe
colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Vienne-Isegravere 30 aoucirct-4septembre 1971)
CMGR III III Colloquio internazionale sul mosaico antico R FARIOLI CAMPANATI (eacuted) Ravenna1983 (Actes du IIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Ravenna6-10 septembre 1980)
CMGR IV La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane IV J -P DARMON - A REBOURG (eds) Paris 1994 (Actesdu IVe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique TregravevesTrier 8-14 aoucirct1984)
CMGR V Fifth Interneational Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics 1 - 2 P Johnson R Ling D J Smith(eds) Ann Arbor M1 1994 and 1995 (Actes du V e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de lamosaiumlque antique Bath 5-12 septembre 1987) (JRA supp9)
CMGR VI VI Col loquio internacional s obre mosaico ant iquo Palenc ia-Meacuterida Octubre 199 0D Fernandez GALIANO (ed) Guadalajara 1994 (Actes du VIe colloque international pour
lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Palencia-Meacuterida octobre 1990)CMGR VII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VII M ENNAIFER - A REBOURG (eds) Tunis 1999 (Actes
du VIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Tunis 3-7 octobre 1994)
CMGR VIII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VIII D PAUNNIER - Chr SCHMIDT (eds) Lausanne 2001(Actes du VIIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevaleLausanne 6-11 octobre 1997) Cahiers drsquoArcheacuteologie Romande 85-86
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviations xxi
CMGR IX La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine IX Heacutelegravene MORLIER (eacuted) Rome 2005 (Actes du IXe colloqueinternational pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome Eacutecole franccedilaisePalazzo Altemps 5 ndash 10 novembre 2001) (Coll EFR 352) (2 vol)
CMGR X La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine X (in Publised)
CMGR XI XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve AntikDoumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi Mozaiklerin Başlan-gıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi Stil ve Teknik uumlzerine Sorular 11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS Mosaics of Turkey andParallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World Questions ofIconography Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late ByzantineEra Mustafa ŞAHİN (Ed) Bursa 2009 (İstanbul 2011)
DNP Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopaumldie der Antike
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Empuacuteries Empuacuteries Revista de prehistograveria arqueologia i etnologia
EPRO Etudes preacuteliminaires aux religions orientales dans lrsquoempire romain
ExcIsr Excavations and Surveys in Israel
Expedition Expedition The Magazine of Archaeology Anthropology
FiE Forschungen in EphesosForschungen I -III Forschungen in Salona I Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institute
Gallia Gallia Fouilles et monuments archeacuteologiques en France metropolitaine
Habis Habis Universidad de Sevilla Arqueologiacutea filologiacutea claacutesica
Historia Historia Zeitschrift fuumlr Alte Geschichte
HistriaAnt Histria antiqua Casopis Međunarodnog Istraživačkog Centra za Arheologiju Journal of theInternational Research Centre for Archeology
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Iliria Iliria Revisteuml arkeologjike
IMT Paul Gauckler Inventaire des mosaiumlques de la Gaule et de lrsquoAfrique tome II AfriqueProconsulaire (Tunisie) Paris 1910 Suppleacutement Alfred Merlin Paris 1915
IstForsch Istanbuler Forschungen
IstMitt Istanbuler Mitteilungen
IvE Inschriften griechischer Staumldte aus Kleinasien
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JAT Journal of Ancient Topography - Rivista di topografia antica
JbAC Jahrbuch fuumlr Antike und Christentum
JbOumlByz Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JdI Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts
JHS The Journal of Hellenic Studies
JMR Journal of Mosaic Research
JOumlAI Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in WienJOumlB Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
JRS The Journal of Roman Studies
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
Klio Klio Beitraumlge zur alten Geschichte
Kokalos Kώκαλος Studi pubblicati dallacuteIstituto di storia antica dellacuteUniversitagrave di Palermo
KST Kazı Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxxii
LA Liber Annuus Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Jeacuterusalem
Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
Le Deacutecor II C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J-P DARMON S GOZLAN M-P RAYNAUDLe deacutecor geacuteomeacutetrique de la Mosaiumlque Romaine II Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif desdeacutecors centreacutes Paris 2002
LIMC Lexikon iconographicum mythologiae classicaeLLAuml Lexikon der AumlgyptologieLRAC Reallexikon fuumlr Antike und Christentum
LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Mainake Mainake Estudios de arqueologiacutea Malaguentildea
MEFR Melanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome
MEFRA Meacutelanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome Antiquiteacute
MEFRM Meacutelanges de lrsquoEacutecole Franccedilaise de Rome Moyen Age
MitChrA Mitteilungen zur christlichen Archaumlologie
MKKS Muumlze Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu
MM Madrider Mitteilungen
Museacuteon Le Museacuteon Revue drsquoeacutetudes orientales
OumlJh Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in Wien
OpArch Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom Opuscula archaeologica
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Peristil Peristil Zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti
PriloziZagreb Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu
QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine
RA Revue archeacuteologique
RACr Rivista di archeologia cristiana
RB Revue biblique
RBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen Kunst Begruumlndet von K Wessel und M Restle Herausgege-Herausgege-ben von M Restle (Stuttgart)
RCHM Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
RHVaud Revue historique vaudoise
StudMisc Peter Johnson - Roger Ling - David J Smith (ed) Fifth International Colloquium on AncientMosaics held at Bath England on September 5 ndash 12 Ann Arbor Michigan 1994 et 1995(Actes du Ve colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique) (JRA SupplementarySeries 9) (2 vol)
TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
Traditio Traditio Studies in Ancient and Medieval History Thought and Religion
TuumlrkAD Tuumlrk Arkeoloji Dergisi
WO Die Welt des Orients
ZDPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaumlstina-Vereins
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Marek Titien OLSZEWSKI
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 659
1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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Marek Titien Olszewski662
was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU
16 991251 20 EKİM 2009 BURSA TUumlRKİYETuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve Antik Doumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına
Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel GelişimiMozaiklerin Başlangıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi
Stil ve Teknik Uumlzerine Sorular
S
11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUMON ANCIENT MOSAICS
OCTOBER 16TH 991251 20TH 2009 BURSA TURKEY
Mosaics of Turkey and Parallel Developments in theRest of the Ancient and Medieval World
Questions of Iconography Style and Technique from theBeginnings of Mosaic until the Late Byzantine Era
Editoumlr Edited by
Mustafa ŞAHİN
Uludağ Uumlniversitesi Uludağ University
Mozaik Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi Mosaic Research Center - AIEMA - TUumlRKİYE
İstanbul 2011
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Bildiriler soyadı sırasına goumlre sıralanmıştır Bu kitapta yayınlanan bildirilerdeki bilimsel iccedilerik ve dil sorumluluğu yazarlarına aittir Kaynak goumlsterilerek alıntı yapılabilir
e papers are arranged in an ordered of surname e content and language responsibility are belong to the authorsIf you show the source you can be quoted e quoted can be showed with source
Bu kitap TUumlBİTAKrsquoın maddi desteği ile basılmıştır
is book was published by the financial support of TUBITAK
TC
KUumlLTUumlRVE TURİZM BAKANLIĞI
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KURULLAR COMMITTEE
Organizasyon Komitesi Organizing Committee
Onursal Başkan Honorary President
Prof Dr Mete CengizRector of Uludag University Uludağ Uumlniversitesi Rektoumlruuml
Onur Kurulu Honorary CommitteeErtuğrul Guumlnay
Kuumlltuumlr ve Turizm Bakanı Minister of Culture and Tourism
Şahabettin HarputBursa Valisi Governor of Bursa
Recep AltepeBursa Buumlyuumlkşehir Belediye Başkanı Mayor of metropolitan municipality of Bursa
Sempozyum Başkanı Symposium PresidentProf Dr Mustafa Şahin
Başkan Yardımcısı Vice PresidentDr Derya Şahin
Sempozyum Sekreterleri Symposium SecretariesAli Altın - Başak Emir
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Bilimsel Komite Scientific CommitteeProf Dr Mustafa ŞahinProf Dr Henri Lavagne
Prof Dr Catherine BalmelleProf Dr David ParrishProf Dr Werner Jobst
Prof Dr Michael Fuchs
Prof Dr Anne-Marie Guimier-SorbetsProf Dr Demetrios MichaelideProf Dr Giordana Trovabene
Prof Dr Janine Balty Prof Dr Federico Guidobaldi
Prof Dr Guadalupe Lopez MonteagudoProf Dr Asher OvadiahDoccedil Dr Guumlrcan PolatDoccedil Dr İ Hakan Mert
Dr Aiumlcha Ben-AbedDr Jean-Pierre Darmon
Dr Derya ŞahinDr Patricia Witts
Miguel Pessoa
Lokal Organizasyon Komitesi Local Organizing CommitteeProf Dr Zeren Tanındı
Prof Dr Selccediluk KırlıProf Dr İsmail Naci Canguumll
Ass Prof Hakan MertAss Prof Guumlrcan Polat
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İCcedilİNDEKİLER TABLE OF CONTENTS
Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xiii
Kısaltmalar Abreviations xix
Giriş xxiii
Foreword xxv
Komait Abdallah
Mosaiumlque drsquoHeacuteraclegraves deacutecouverte agrave Homs (Syrie centrale) 1
Maria Andaloro ndash Paola Pogliani
e 6 th Century Mosaic Floor of the Church of Kuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) A Model for an Integrated Analysis between Knowledge Conservation and Documentation 15
Ayşe Aydın
Das Fussbodenmosaik des Annexbaus in der Kuppelkirche in Kaunos e Floor Mosaics at the Annex Building of the Domed Church 31
Paola Baldassarri
Archaeological Excavations at Palazzo Valentini A Residential Area in the Shade of the Trajanrsquos Forum 43
Catherine Balmelle ndash Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader ndash Fathi Bejaoui La Maison des Deux Lions agrave Carthage 69
Claudia Barsanti
e Marble Floor of St John Studius in Constantinople A Neglected Masterpiece 87
Aiumlcha Ben Abed amp Roger Hanoune
Les pavements mosaiumlqueacutes des ermes agrave lrsquooctagone de Pupput (Hammamet Tunisie) 99
Jesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
e Social Construction of Gender Identities through the Ancient Mosaics from Antioch 107
Veacuteronique Blanc-Bijon ndash Fabienne Olmer avec la collaboration de Marie-Laure Courboulegraves
Une nouvelle mosaiumlque sur lrsquo oppidum de lrsquoErmitage agrave Alegraves (Gard France) 121
Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Mythology in Mosaics of Zeugma and Hispania Similarities and Differences 137
Roberto Bugini ndash Luisa Folli ndash Brunella Portulano ndash Elisabetta Roffia
e Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics A Case-Study in Northern Italy 163
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İccedilindekiler Table of Contents viii
Marija Buzov
e Early Christian Mosaics with Inscription in Croatia 171
Javier Cabrero Piquero
A New Hispano-Roman Mosaic with the Story of Meleager 193
Maria Teresa Caetano ndash Caacutetia Mouratildeo A ldquoPortraitrdquo of Book XII of the AEligneid Mosaic from the laquo House of the Medusa raquo (Alter do Chatildeo Portugal) 205
Birol Can
Technical Stylistic Iconographic Evaluation and Dating of Mosaics of Altıntepe Church 225
Margherita Carucci
An Example of Visual Humour on a Romano-African Mosaic Putting Images in their Context 235
John R Clarke ndash Lea Cline
New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa A Torre Annunziata - Italy - 50 BC ndash AD 79 247
Neil Cookson
Orpheus Some Metaphors in Mosaic 259
Violeta Cvetkovska Ocokoljic ndash Jugoslav Ocokoljic
Parallel Research Fresco Painting of Chora and Sopocani 269
Jean-Pierre Darmon
Une eacutenigme enfin reacutesolue la fausse Iphigeacutenie drsquoAntioche eacutetait une Alceste 283
Carlos Tavares da Silva ndash Joaquina Soares ndash Liciacutenia Nunes Correia Wrench
Les premiegraveres mosaiumlques romaines deacutecouvertes agrave Caetobriga (Setuacutebal Portugal) 295
Anne-Sophie Decriaud
Les Saisons personnifieacutees sur les mosaiumlques romaines tardives (IV e
-VI e
siegravecles) de la partie orientaledu Bassin meacutediterraneacuteen (Turquie Syrie Liban Israeumll Jordanie) 309
Sophie Delbarre-Baumlrtschi
Les mosaiumlques romaines en Suisse 333
Lorella Maria de Matteis
e Mosaics of the Early Christian Basilicas on the Island of Kos 339
Maria de Jesus Duran Kremer
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romaine de Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de lrsquoAlgarve 353
Mercedes Duraacuten Penedo Mosaicos con la iconografiacutea de etis madre de Aquiles en Turquiacutea y en otros enclaves del Imperio 363
Andreas M Foulias
e Basilica of Agioi Saranta Kırklar Tekke in Cyprus and its Mosaics 381
Zaraza Friedman
Ships Depicted in the Madaba Map Mosaic 391
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Michel E Fuchs ndash Sophie Delbarre-Baumlrtschi
Derecik Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacuteglise pour deux mosaiumlques 405
Alessandra Guiglia Guidobaldi
e Marble Floor Decoration in Constantinople Prolegomena to a Corpus 413
Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets Les thegravemes dionysiaques sur les mosaiumlques helleacutenistiques drsquoAsie Mineure (Turquie) 437
Bertrand Houix ndash Veacuteronique Blanc-Bijon ndash Jean-Yves Breuil ndash Jean-Pierre Darmon ndashPascale Linant de Bellefonds
Mosaiumlques agrave thegravemes mythologiques reacutecemment deacutecouvertes sous lrsquoavenue Jean-Jaures agrave Nimes (France) 447
Işıl Rabia Işıklıkaya-Laubscher
Mosaics in Perge Preliminary Report on the Mosaics of the Macellum 467
Werner Jobst
Das Mosaikpaviment der fruumlhchristlichen Basilika von GoumlnenGerme in Mysien (Hellespont) 483
Lyudmila G KhrushkovaOpus Sectile Pavements in the Crimea and on the East Coast of the Black Sea 505
Ruth Kolarik
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implications for other Regions 519
Emine Koumlker
Antik Ccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At İkonografisi 531
Maja Kramer
Signs of Progression in the Personifications of the Seasons in Roman Mosaics e Artistic Approach Procedures and Tools Used by the Craftsmen to Relate the Viewer to the Experience of the Passing of Time 547
Delphine Lauritzen
Mosaiumlques drsquoOkeacuteanos et de alassa agrave Zurich Une proposition de mise en perspective 555
Filomena Limatildeo
e Vasersquos Representation (Cantharus Crater) on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Significant Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late Antiquity 565
Virgiacutelio Lopes
Late Antiquity in Portugal e Mosaics 585
Guadalupe Loacutepez Monteagudo
Opora through East and West Abundance Allegories in Mosaics of Spain and Turkey 597
Irene Mantildeas Romero
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of Italica Firmament Images 615
Luz Neira
e Sea iasos of Nereids and Tritons in the Roman Mosaics of Turkey 631
Marek Titien Olszewski
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 655
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Marek Titien Olszewski ndash Piotr Zakrzewski
e Decoration of the Dining Rooms at Ptolemais in Cyrenaica (Libya) in the Light of the Last Researches 665
Elda Omari
e History and Development of Mosaics in Albania (4th 3rd Century BC ndash 6 th Century AD) 675
Asher OvadiahConservative Approaches in the Ancient Synagogue Mosaic Pavements in Israele Cases of lsquoEin Gedi and SepphorisZippori 693
Ali Kazım Oumlz
e Mosaics of Metropolis in Ionia 701
Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
Building with Mosaics of Olympos Mosaics of Late Ancient Era ndash Early Byzantine Period 709
David Parrish - Birte Poulsen
Late Antique Tombs with Mosaics in Ancient Halikarnassos 721
Bernard ParzyszUne grande famille de deacutecors geacuteomeacutetriques 735
Silvia Pedone
e Marble Omphalos of Saint Sophia in Constantinople An Analysis of an Opus Sectile Pavement of Middle Byzantine Age 749
Claudia Pelosi ndash Ulderico Santamaria
e 6 th Century AD Floor Mosaic of the Church of Kuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Characterization of the Constitutive Materials Finding of the Quarries of Origin 769
Miguel Pessoa
Stibadium with a Mosaic in the Roman Villa of Rabaccedilal Penela Portugal 779Vania Popova ndash Alexander Lirsch
Corpus of Late Antique and Early Christian Mosaics in Bulgaria 793
Manuel Romero ndash Sebastiaacuten Vargas
Mosaic Workshop Located in the Villa de la Estacioacuten de Antequera Maacutelaga (Espantildea) 823
Idit Sagiv-Hayik
e Hellenistic Mosaic of Dor ndash Figural Image or eatrical Mask 829
Barış Salman
Reflection of Some Cults and Rituels on Mosaics and Reliefs in Osroene and Other Syrian Cultures 843
M Pilar San Nicolaacutes Pedraz
On a Mosaic from Maacutelaga with the Depiction of ZeusJupiter and Antiope 853
Derya Şahin
Myndos Mosaics 865
Y Selccediluk Şener
Mozaiklerin Korunmasında Temel Kriterler 873
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Alessandro Taddei
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of Saint Eirene at Constantinople 883
Giordana Trovabene
Knots of Lines like Weaves of reads A Corpus of Early Medieval Mosaics in ldquoVenetordquo 897
Fuumlsun Tuumlleke Bejewelled Lady of Sinope 921
Julia Valeva
Une riche domus de Stara Zagora ( Augusta Trajana-Beroe ) Publication preacuteliminaire 927
Zeev Weiss
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between East and West 941
Patricia Witts
Mosaic Studies and Souvenirs 953
Şehriguumll Yeşil-Erdek
Display of Ancient Mosaics Tourism as an Influential Factor Steering the Decision Making Process 963
Diklah Zohar
Application Procedures of Mosaics and the Division of Production Work Examples from Madaba Beth Alpha and Antioch 969
Hande Koumlkten
A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of Turkey Condition Survey of Mosaics 975
Hande Koumlkten
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as a Management Activity of Archaeological Sites 983
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BİLİMSEL PROGRAM SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
16 October 2009 Fr983145day
0900 - 1040 Open983145ng Ceremony OumlRDEKLİ COMPLEX
HALL A HALL B
Panel 1Moderator Dav983145d Parr983145sh
Panel 2Moderator Werner Jobst
1040 - 1100
La Fausse Iph983145geacuten983145e Dant983145oche Une Eacuten983145gme Enf983145n
ReacutesolueJean - P983145erre Darmon
Les Personn983145f983145cat983145ons Des Sa983145sons Sur Les MosaiumlquesTard983145ves (983145ve-v983145e S983145egravecles) De La Part983145e Or983145entale Du
Bass983145n Meacuted983145terraneacuteen (Turqu983145e Syr983145e Jordan983145ePalest983145ne)Anne-Soph983145e Deacutecr983145aud
1100 - 1120 Intrecc983145 d983145 l983145nee come trame d983145 f983145l983145 Per un corpus de983145mosa983145c983145 altomed983145eval983145 del VenetoG983145ordana Trovabene
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 3Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 4Moderator Anne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
1215 - 1235 Reflect983145on of Cults and R983145tuels on Mosa983145cs andRel983145efs 983145n Osroene and Other Syr983145an CulturesBarış Salman
Aspects Of Euerget983145sm And Soc983145o Econom983145c ForcesIn Byzant983145ne And Early Islam983145c Mosa983145cs In JordanBasema Hamarneh
1235 - 1255Les Pavements des Thermes Agraversquo octogone De PupputAiumlcha Ben Abed - Roger Hanoune
Mosa983145c Decorat983145on 983145n C983145v983145c Context Late ant983145quepavements from PergeIşıl R Işıklıkaya
1255 - 1315
Derec983145k Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacutegl983145se pour deuxmosaiumlquesM983145chel E FuchsSoph983145e Delbarre-Baumlrtsch983145
Bursa Moza983145kler983145Recep Okccedilu
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
HALL A HALL B
Panel 5Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 6Moderator Aiumlcha Ben Abed
1500 - 1520The VI th century floor mosa983145c of the church ofKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Mar983145a Andaloro - Paola Pogl983145an983145
Erz983145ncan - Altıntepe K983145l983145se Moza983145kler983145B983145rol Can
1520 - 1540The Bas983145l983145ca Of Ag983145o983145 Sarantak983145rklar Tekke In CyprusAnd Its Mosa983145csAndreas Foul983145as
D983145onysos et la mer les mosaiumlques agrave lrsquoeacutepoquehelleacuten983145st983145que et au deacutebut de lrsquoeacutepoque 983145mpeacuter983145aleAnne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexiv
1540 - 1600Early Byzant983145ne Mosa983145cs W983145th Person983145f983145cat983145ons FromTurkey And Syr983145aChr983145st983145ne Kondoleon
El Mosa983145co Pav983145mental De La Basiacutel983145ca De L983145lla Del Re983145G983145sela R983145poll Catal983145na MasM983145guel Aacutengel Cau
1600 - 1620Corpus Of Late Ant983145que And Early Chr983145st983145an Mosa983145csIn Bulgar983145aAlexander L983145rsch
Mosa983145cs In Ant983145och A Morpholog983145cal Observat983145onD983145klah Zohar
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630 - 1640 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 7Moderator Mar983145a Andaloro
Panel 8Moderator B983145rol Can
1640 - 1700Pompe983145opol983145s ( Taşkoumlpruuml )Lu983145sa Musso
La Produz983145one Pav983145mentale Pugl983145ese Tra Tardoant983145coE Med983145oevo Evoluz983145one Tecn983145ca E St983145l983145st983145caCarr983145no Rachele
1700 - 1720La ma983145son des deux l983145ons agrave CarthageAiumlcha Ben-AbedBen Khader - Cather983145ne Balmelle
Putt983145ng In Context Two Mosa983145cs Of Okeanos AndThalassaDelph983145ne Renaut
1720 - 1740
1740 - 1800 DISCUSSION
1900 - 2200 DINNER Mevlev983145 Presentat983145on
17 October 2009 Saturday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 9Moderator Luisa Musso
Panel 10Moderator Asuman Baldıran
0900 - 0920New Mosaics at the Colonia Patricia CordubaFrancesc Josep de Rueda Roigeacute
Parallel Research Fresco Painting Of Chora AndSopocani Violeta C OcokoljicJugoslav Ocokoljic
0920 - 0940Sailing in the Dead Sea - Madaba Map MosaicZaraza Friedman
Mosaique funeacuteraire drsquoOrpheacutee de Jerusalem auMuseacutee Archeacuteologique drsquoIstanbul CompleacutementdrsquoenquecircteMarek Titien Olszewski
0940 - 1000Literary References on Three Roman MosaicPanelsSarah E Cox
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implicationsfor Other RegionsRuth Kolarik
1000 - 1020I Mosaici delle Basiliche Paleocristianedellrsquoisola di CosLorella Maria De Matteis
The Marble Floor Decoration in ConstantinopleProlegomen to a Corpus Alessandra Guiglia
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 11Moderator Derya Şahin
Panel 12Moderator Zaraza Friedman
1040 - 1100
Conservative Approaches In The SynagogueMosaic Pavements In Israel The Cases Of lsquoeinGedi And Sepphoris Zippori Asher Ovadiah
Theatre and Art Mosaics as Evidence forDramatic PerformanceKatherine Dunbabin
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xv
1100 - 1020Late Antique Tombs With Mosaics In AncientHalikarnassosDavid Parrish - Birte Poulsen
A Propos Des Opus Sectile Deacutecouverts Dans LaMaison Du Cours Pourtoules (orange-vaucluse)Eric Morvillez
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 13Moderator Birte Poulsen
Panel 14Moderator Asher Ovadiah
1215 - 1235The Mosaic Pavement of the Early ChristianBasilica At GoumlnenGerme In Mysia laquoHellespontraquoWerner Jobst
Oriental motifs and patterns in the mosaic art ofTarragonaRosario Navarro
1235 - 1255The Vith Century Floor Mosaic Of The Church OfKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) Ulderico Santamaria - Claudia Pelosi
The Marble Omphalos Of The St Sophia OfConstantinople Analysis Of An Opus SectilePavement Of The Middle Byzantine PeriodSilvia Pedone
1255 - 1315Torba Manastır Kompleksi Mozaikleri M Aykut Oumlzet
The Marble Floor Of St John Studius InConstantinople A Forgotten MasterpieceClaudia Barsanti
1315 - 1330Sardisrsquoteki Geccedil Roma-Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaikleriEmine Tok
Mylasa Mozaikleri Abuzer Kızıl
1330 - 1345 DISCUSSION
1400 - 2200 DERECİK ( BUumlYUumlKORHAN ) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
18 October 2009 Sunday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 15Moderator Hakan Mert
Panel 16Moderator Michel E Fuchs
0900 - 0920Basic Criteria for the Preservation of Mosaics AGuide for Archaeologists ISelccediluk Şener
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between Eastand WestZeev Weiss
0920 - 0940
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as aManagement Activity of Archaeological Sites AGuide for Archaeologists IIHande Koumlkten
Une Grande Famille de Deacutecors GeacuteomeacutetriquesBernard Parzysz
0940 - 1000
Display of Ancient Mosaics İn Situ Tourism as anInuential Factor Steering the Decision MakingProcessŞehriguumll Yeşil Erdek
Mosaicos Mitoloacutegicos de Zeugma Y de Hispania Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
1000 - 1020 A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of TurkeyCondition Survey of MosaicsHande Koumlkten
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of SaintEirene at Constantinople Alessandro Taddei
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 2200 IZNIK (NICEA) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexvi
19 October 2009 Monday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 17Moderator Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Panel 18Moderator Veronika Scheibelreiter
0900 - 0920Signs of the Progression of Time in RomanMosaic ArtMaja Kramer
Une Nouvelle Mosaiumlque sur lrsquooppidum drsquoAlegraves(Gard France) Veacuteronique Blanc- BijonFabienne Olmer
0920 - 0940 Antikccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At Ikonograsi Emine Koumlker
The Latest Archaeological Discoveries about theMediana MosaicsGordana Jeremic
0940 - 1000New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa ATorre Annunziata ItalyJohn R Clarke - Lea Cline
Architekturdarstellungen auf roumlmischen MosaikenKleinasienHakan Mert
1000 - 1020Late Antiquity Mosaics in Portugal Virgilio Lopez
Orpheus Some Metaphors in MosaicNeil Cookson
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 19Moderator Selccediluk Şener
Panel 20Moderator Patricia Witts
1040 - 1100Opus Sectile Pavements From Western AsiaMinor Veronika Scheibelreiter
The First Roman Mosaics Discovered in CetobrigaCarlos Tavares da Silva - Joaquina Soares -Liciacutenia Wrench
1100 - 1020
Indagini Archeologiche A Palazzo ValentiniunQuartiere Residenziale Ai Margini Del ForoTraianoPaola Baldassarri
Olympos Mozaikli YapıGeccedil Antik Ccedilağ - Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaiklerinin Teknik ve Stil Değerlendirmesi Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 21Moderator Hande Koumlkten
Panel 22Moderator Liciacutenia Wrench
1215 - 1235Mosaic Studies And Souvenirs Leaving no StoneUnturnedPatricia Witts
The Mosaic of Leukippe and Theonoe in theKointos Villa in ZeugmaPaolo Vitellozzi
1235 - 1255Notice Mosaic of laquothe House of Medusaraquo(portugal Alter do Chatildeo)Maria Teresa Caetano
Metropolis Mozaikleri Ali Kazım Oumlz
1255 - 1315 Zeugma Danae Evinin MozaikleriMehmet Oumlnal
Mosaicos Con la Iconograa de Thethismadre
de Aquiles en Turquia Y en Otros Enclaves delImperio RomanoMercedes Duran Penedo
1315 - 1330 LUNCH
1330 - 1530 AIEMA MEETING
DISENGAGED DINNER
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xvii
20 October 2009 Tuesday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 23Moderator Mehmet Onal
Panel 24Moderator Paolo Vitellozzi
0900 - 0920De Que Hablamos Cuando Hablamos de TalleresMusivos Tardios en HispaniaMercedes Torres Carro
The Bejewelled Lady of SinopeFuumlsun Tuumllek
0920 - 0940 A new reading of the Dor mosaicIdit Sagiv-Hayik
Milli Azerbaycan Tarihi Muumlzesinde Hristyan AbideleriFariz Halilli
0940 - 1000Konya Tatkoumly ve Alibeykoumly Houmlyuumlğuuml Mozaikleri Asuman Baldıran- Osman Doğanay
Salamis Kenti Opus Sectile Taban Doumlşemeleri Aytaccedil Coşkun
1000 - 1020Il Mosaico di Metiochos E Parthenope da ZeugmaLucia Romizzi - Andrea Carini
Non-Destructive Investigations on Mosaic of theChurch of the Three HierarchsM Geba - N Vornicu - C Bibire
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 25Moderator Işıl R Işıklıkaya
Panel 26Moderator Luz Neira
1040 - 1100
Late Antique Private Luxury The Mosaic FloorsOf The Urban Mansion Of Sagalassos (ağlasunBurdur)Inge Uytterhoeven - Hande Koumlkten - MarcWaelkens - Markku Corremans
The Role of Late Antique Art in Early ChristianWorship A Reconsideration of the Iconographyof The lsquostarry Skyrsquo in Mosaics of the Late 5th -Early 6th C AdEllen Swift - Anne Alwis
1100 - 1020The Early Christian Mosaics with the Inscriptionsin CroatiaMarija Buzov
La Construccioacuten de las identidades de geacutenero atraveacutes de los mosaicos antioquenosJesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 27Moderator Marija Buzov
Panel 28Moderator Maja Kramer
1215 - 1235Kaunos Kubbeli Kilise Ek Yapısırsquondaki TabanMozaiği Ayşe Aydın
El Thiasos Marino en los Mosaicos Romanos deTurquiacuteaLuz Neira
1235 - 1255
The Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics Bugini RobertoFolli Luisa Portulano BrunellaRofa Elisabetta
A stibadium with a mosaic in the Roman Villa ofRabaccedilal Penela PortugalMiguel Pessoa
1255 - 1315
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romainede Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de AlgarveMaria De Jesus Duran Kremer
Mosaiumlques mythologiques de Zeugma Originaliteacuteet Liens iconographiques avec la peinturepompeacuteienne et les mosaiumlques italiques etafricains du I-II siegravecleLucia Romizzi
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
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HALL A HALL B
Panel 29Moderator Maria Kremer
Panel 30Moderator Miguel Pessoa
1500 - 1520
The Vases Representation (cantharus Crater)on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Signicant
Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late AntiquityFilomena Limatildeo
The Rape of Hylas and the Spectacles of the Amphitheatre on a Floor Mosaic from Volubilis
(Morocco)Margherita Carucci
1520 - 1540The Herakles mosaic discovered in Homs (Syria)Komait Abdallah
Myndos MosaicsDerya Şahin
1540 - 1600Les Mosaiumlques Agrave Thegraveme MythologiqueReacutecemment Deacutecouvertes Agrave NicircmesJean-yves Breuil
A Late Antique Residence in Augusta TraianaProvince of ThraceJulia Valeva
1600 - 1620Floor mosaics from a Roman villa in NinJagoda Meder
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of ItalicaFirmament ImagesIrene Mantildeas Romero
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630FREE TIME- BURSA -
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KISALTMALAR ABBREVIATIONS
AA Archaeologischer Anzeiger
Abulg Archaeologia Bulgarica
Acontia Acontia Revista de arqueologiacutea
ActaInstRomFin Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae
AEspA Archivo espantildeol de arqueologiacutea
AISCOM LrsquoAssociazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico
AJA American Journal of Archaelology
AJug Archaeologia JugoslavicaAM Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts Athenische Abteilung
AMethTh Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
AMS Asia Minor Studien
AnatoliaA Anatolia Antiqua
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der roumlmischen Welt
AnSt Anatolian Studies
AntAfr Antiquiteacutes africaines
AntigCr Antiguumledad y Cristianismo Monografiacuteas histoacutericas sobre la antiguumledad tardiacutea
AntK Antike Kunst
AntTard Antiquiteacute tardive Revue internationale drsquohistoire et drsquoarcheacuteologie
APregl Arheološki pregled Arheološko društvo JugoslavijeAquilNost Aquileia nostra Bollettino dellrsquoAssociazione nazionale per Aquileia
ArchCl Archeologia classica
Archeologia Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Published by the Society ofAntiquaries of London
ArtB The Art Bulletin
ASSAPH Assaph Studies in Art History
AST Araştırma Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
Atiqot Atiqot Journal of the Israel Department of Antiquities
AttiMemIstria Atti e memorie della Societagrave istriana di archeologia e storia patria
AW Antike Welt Zeitschrift fuumlr Archaumlologie und Kulturgeschichte
BAA Bulletin drsquoarcheologie algerienneBABesch Bulletin antieke beschaving Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology
BAcHist Boletiacuten de la Real academia de la historia
Baetica Baetica Estudios de arte geografiacutea e historia
BAR British Archaeological Reports British Series
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BCH Bulletin de correspondance helleacutenique
BCom Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxx
BCTH Bulletin archeacuteologique du Comiteacute des travaux historiques et scientifiques Paris
BdA Bollettino drsquoarte
BEFAR Bibliothegraveque des Ecoles franccedilaises drsquoAthegravenes et de Rome
Belleten Belleten Tuumlrk Tarih Kurumu
BJb Bonner Jahrbuumlcher des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn
BMQ The British Museum Quarterly BMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
Boreas Boreas Muumlnstersche Beitraumlge zur Archaumlologie
BSA The British school of Archaeology at Athens
BSEAA Boletin del Seminario de estudios de arte y arqueologia
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
BT Babylonian Talmud
BullAIEMA Bulletin de lrsquoAssociation internationale pour lrsquoetude de la mosaique antique
BullMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
CArch Cahiers archeacuteologiques
CEDAC CEDAC Bulletin Centre drsquoeacutetudes et de documentation archeacuteologique de la conservation deCartage
CEFR Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome
Chiron Chiron Mitteilungen der Kommission fuumlr Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des DeutschenArchaumlologischen Instituts
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
ClJ The Classical Journal
CMG Convegni di studi sulla Magna Grecia
CMGR I La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane I H STERN - G Ch PICARD (eds) Paris 1965 (Actes du Iercolloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Paris 30 aoucirct-3 septembre 1963)
CMGR II La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane II H STERN - M LE GAY (eds) Paris 1975 (Actes du IIe
colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Vienne-Isegravere 30 aoucirct-4septembre 1971)
CMGR III III Colloquio internazionale sul mosaico antico R FARIOLI CAMPANATI (eacuted) Ravenna1983 (Actes du IIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Ravenna6-10 septembre 1980)
CMGR IV La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane IV J -P DARMON - A REBOURG (eds) Paris 1994 (Actesdu IVe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique TregravevesTrier 8-14 aoucirct1984)
CMGR V Fifth Interneational Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics 1 - 2 P Johnson R Ling D J Smith(eds) Ann Arbor M1 1994 and 1995 (Actes du V e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de lamosaiumlque antique Bath 5-12 septembre 1987) (JRA supp9)
CMGR VI VI Col loquio internacional s obre mosaico ant iquo Palenc ia-Meacuterida Octubre 199 0D Fernandez GALIANO (ed) Guadalajara 1994 (Actes du VIe colloque international pour
lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Palencia-Meacuterida octobre 1990)CMGR VII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VII M ENNAIFER - A REBOURG (eds) Tunis 1999 (Actes
du VIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Tunis 3-7 octobre 1994)
CMGR VIII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VIII D PAUNNIER - Chr SCHMIDT (eds) Lausanne 2001(Actes du VIIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevaleLausanne 6-11 octobre 1997) Cahiers drsquoArcheacuteologie Romande 85-86
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CMGR IX La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine IX Heacutelegravene MORLIER (eacuted) Rome 2005 (Actes du IXe colloqueinternational pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome Eacutecole franccedilaisePalazzo Altemps 5 ndash 10 novembre 2001) (Coll EFR 352) (2 vol)
CMGR X La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine X (in Publised)
CMGR XI XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve AntikDoumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi Mozaiklerin Başlan-gıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi Stil ve Teknik uumlzerine Sorular 11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS Mosaics of Turkey andParallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World Questions ofIconography Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late ByzantineEra Mustafa ŞAHİN (Ed) Bursa 2009 (İstanbul 2011)
DNP Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopaumldie der Antike
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Empuacuteries Empuacuteries Revista de prehistograveria arqueologia i etnologia
EPRO Etudes preacuteliminaires aux religions orientales dans lrsquoempire romain
ExcIsr Excavations and Surveys in Israel
Expedition Expedition The Magazine of Archaeology Anthropology
FiE Forschungen in EphesosForschungen I -III Forschungen in Salona I Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institute
Gallia Gallia Fouilles et monuments archeacuteologiques en France metropolitaine
Habis Habis Universidad de Sevilla Arqueologiacutea filologiacutea claacutesica
Historia Historia Zeitschrift fuumlr Alte Geschichte
HistriaAnt Histria antiqua Casopis Međunarodnog Istraživačkog Centra za Arheologiju Journal of theInternational Research Centre for Archeology
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Iliria Iliria Revisteuml arkeologjike
IMT Paul Gauckler Inventaire des mosaiumlques de la Gaule et de lrsquoAfrique tome II AfriqueProconsulaire (Tunisie) Paris 1910 Suppleacutement Alfred Merlin Paris 1915
IstForsch Istanbuler Forschungen
IstMitt Istanbuler Mitteilungen
IvE Inschriften griechischer Staumldte aus Kleinasien
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JAT Journal of Ancient Topography - Rivista di topografia antica
JbAC Jahrbuch fuumlr Antike und Christentum
JbOumlByz Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JdI Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts
JHS The Journal of Hellenic Studies
JMR Journal of Mosaic Research
JOumlAI Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in WienJOumlB Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
JRS The Journal of Roman Studies
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
Klio Klio Beitraumlge zur alten Geschichte
Kokalos Kώκαλος Studi pubblicati dallacuteIstituto di storia antica dellacuteUniversitagrave di Palermo
KST Kazı Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxxii
LA Liber Annuus Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Jeacuterusalem
Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
Le Deacutecor II C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J-P DARMON S GOZLAN M-P RAYNAUDLe deacutecor geacuteomeacutetrique de la Mosaiumlque Romaine II Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif desdeacutecors centreacutes Paris 2002
LIMC Lexikon iconographicum mythologiae classicaeLLAuml Lexikon der AumlgyptologieLRAC Reallexikon fuumlr Antike und Christentum
LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Mainake Mainake Estudios de arqueologiacutea Malaguentildea
MEFR Melanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome
MEFRA Meacutelanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome Antiquiteacute
MEFRM Meacutelanges de lrsquoEacutecole Franccedilaise de Rome Moyen Age
MitChrA Mitteilungen zur christlichen Archaumlologie
MKKS Muumlze Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu
MM Madrider Mitteilungen
Museacuteon Le Museacuteon Revue drsquoeacutetudes orientales
OumlJh Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in Wien
OpArch Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom Opuscula archaeologica
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Peristil Peristil Zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti
PriloziZagreb Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu
QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine
RA Revue archeacuteologique
RACr Rivista di archeologia cristiana
RB Revue biblique
RBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen Kunst Begruumlndet von K Wessel und M Restle Herausgege-Herausgege-ben von M Restle (Stuttgart)
RCHM Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
RHVaud Revue historique vaudoise
StudMisc Peter Johnson - Roger Ling - David J Smith (ed) Fifth International Colloquium on AncientMosaics held at Bath England on September 5 ndash 12 Ann Arbor Michigan 1994 et 1995(Actes du Ve colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique) (JRA SupplementarySeries 9) (2 vol)
TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
Traditio Traditio Studies in Ancient and Medieval History Thought and Religion
TuumlrkAD Tuumlrk Arkeoloji Dergisi
WO Die Welt des Orients
ZDPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaumlstina-Vereins
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Marek Titien OLSZEWSKI
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 659
1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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Marek Titien Olszewski662
was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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Bildiriler soyadı sırasına goumlre sıralanmıştır Bu kitapta yayınlanan bildirilerdeki bilimsel iccedilerik ve dil sorumluluğu yazarlarına aittir Kaynak goumlsterilerek alıntı yapılabilir
e papers are arranged in an ordered of surname e content and language responsibility are belong to the authorsIf you show the source you can be quoted e quoted can be showed with source
Bu kitap TUumlBİTAKrsquoın maddi desteği ile basılmıştır
is book was published by the financial support of TUBITAK
TC
KUumlLTUumlRVE TURİZM BAKANLIĞI
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KURULLAR COMMITTEE
Organizasyon Komitesi Organizing Committee
Onursal Başkan Honorary President
Prof Dr Mete CengizRector of Uludag University Uludağ Uumlniversitesi Rektoumlruuml
Onur Kurulu Honorary CommitteeErtuğrul Guumlnay
Kuumlltuumlr ve Turizm Bakanı Minister of Culture and Tourism
Şahabettin HarputBursa Valisi Governor of Bursa
Recep AltepeBursa Buumlyuumlkşehir Belediye Başkanı Mayor of metropolitan municipality of Bursa
Sempozyum Başkanı Symposium PresidentProf Dr Mustafa Şahin
Başkan Yardımcısı Vice PresidentDr Derya Şahin
Sempozyum Sekreterleri Symposium SecretariesAli Altın - Başak Emir
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Bilimsel Komite Scientific CommitteeProf Dr Mustafa ŞahinProf Dr Henri Lavagne
Prof Dr Catherine BalmelleProf Dr David ParrishProf Dr Werner Jobst
Prof Dr Michael Fuchs
Prof Dr Anne-Marie Guimier-SorbetsProf Dr Demetrios MichaelideProf Dr Giordana Trovabene
Prof Dr Janine Balty Prof Dr Federico Guidobaldi
Prof Dr Guadalupe Lopez MonteagudoProf Dr Asher OvadiahDoccedil Dr Guumlrcan PolatDoccedil Dr İ Hakan Mert
Dr Aiumlcha Ben-AbedDr Jean-Pierre Darmon
Dr Derya ŞahinDr Patricia Witts
Miguel Pessoa
Lokal Organizasyon Komitesi Local Organizing CommitteeProf Dr Zeren Tanındı
Prof Dr Selccediluk KırlıProf Dr İsmail Naci Canguumll
Ass Prof Hakan MertAss Prof Guumlrcan Polat
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İCcedilİNDEKİLER TABLE OF CONTENTS
Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xiii
Kısaltmalar Abreviations xix
Giriş xxiii
Foreword xxv
Komait Abdallah
Mosaiumlque drsquoHeacuteraclegraves deacutecouverte agrave Homs (Syrie centrale) 1
Maria Andaloro ndash Paola Pogliani
e 6 th Century Mosaic Floor of the Church of Kuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) A Model for an Integrated Analysis between Knowledge Conservation and Documentation 15
Ayşe Aydın
Das Fussbodenmosaik des Annexbaus in der Kuppelkirche in Kaunos e Floor Mosaics at the Annex Building of the Domed Church 31
Paola Baldassarri
Archaeological Excavations at Palazzo Valentini A Residential Area in the Shade of the Trajanrsquos Forum 43
Catherine Balmelle ndash Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader ndash Fathi Bejaoui La Maison des Deux Lions agrave Carthage 69
Claudia Barsanti
e Marble Floor of St John Studius in Constantinople A Neglected Masterpiece 87
Aiumlcha Ben Abed amp Roger Hanoune
Les pavements mosaiumlqueacutes des ermes agrave lrsquooctagone de Pupput (Hammamet Tunisie) 99
Jesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
e Social Construction of Gender Identities through the Ancient Mosaics from Antioch 107
Veacuteronique Blanc-Bijon ndash Fabienne Olmer avec la collaboration de Marie-Laure Courboulegraves
Une nouvelle mosaiumlque sur lrsquo oppidum de lrsquoErmitage agrave Alegraves (Gard France) 121
Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Mythology in Mosaics of Zeugma and Hispania Similarities and Differences 137
Roberto Bugini ndash Luisa Folli ndash Brunella Portulano ndash Elisabetta Roffia
e Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics A Case-Study in Northern Italy 163
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İccedilindekiler Table of Contents viii
Marija Buzov
e Early Christian Mosaics with Inscription in Croatia 171
Javier Cabrero Piquero
A New Hispano-Roman Mosaic with the Story of Meleager 193
Maria Teresa Caetano ndash Caacutetia Mouratildeo A ldquoPortraitrdquo of Book XII of the AEligneid Mosaic from the laquo House of the Medusa raquo (Alter do Chatildeo Portugal) 205
Birol Can
Technical Stylistic Iconographic Evaluation and Dating of Mosaics of Altıntepe Church 225
Margherita Carucci
An Example of Visual Humour on a Romano-African Mosaic Putting Images in their Context 235
John R Clarke ndash Lea Cline
New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa A Torre Annunziata - Italy - 50 BC ndash AD 79 247
Neil Cookson
Orpheus Some Metaphors in Mosaic 259
Violeta Cvetkovska Ocokoljic ndash Jugoslav Ocokoljic
Parallel Research Fresco Painting of Chora and Sopocani 269
Jean-Pierre Darmon
Une eacutenigme enfin reacutesolue la fausse Iphigeacutenie drsquoAntioche eacutetait une Alceste 283
Carlos Tavares da Silva ndash Joaquina Soares ndash Liciacutenia Nunes Correia Wrench
Les premiegraveres mosaiumlques romaines deacutecouvertes agrave Caetobriga (Setuacutebal Portugal) 295
Anne-Sophie Decriaud
Les Saisons personnifieacutees sur les mosaiumlques romaines tardives (IV e
-VI e
siegravecles) de la partie orientaledu Bassin meacutediterraneacuteen (Turquie Syrie Liban Israeumll Jordanie) 309
Sophie Delbarre-Baumlrtschi
Les mosaiumlques romaines en Suisse 333
Lorella Maria de Matteis
e Mosaics of the Early Christian Basilicas on the Island of Kos 339
Maria de Jesus Duran Kremer
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romaine de Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de lrsquoAlgarve 353
Mercedes Duraacuten Penedo Mosaicos con la iconografiacutea de etis madre de Aquiles en Turquiacutea y en otros enclaves del Imperio 363
Andreas M Foulias
e Basilica of Agioi Saranta Kırklar Tekke in Cyprus and its Mosaics 381
Zaraza Friedman
Ships Depicted in the Madaba Map Mosaic 391
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İccedilindekiler Table of Contents ix
Michel E Fuchs ndash Sophie Delbarre-Baumlrtschi
Derecik Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacuteglise pour deux mosaiumlques 405
Alessandra Guiglia Guidobaldi
e Marble Floor Decoration in Constantinople Prolegomena to a Corpus 413
Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets Les thegravemes dionysiaques sur les mosaiumlques helleacutenistiques drsquoAsie Mineure (Turquie) 437
Bertrand Houix ndash Veacuteronique Blanc-Bijon ndash Jean-Yves Breuil ndash Jean-Pierre Darmon ndashPascale Linant de Bellefonds
Mosaiumlques agrave thegravemes mythologiques reacutecemment deacutecouvertes sous lrsquoavenue Jean-Jaures agrave Nimes (France) 447
Işıl Rabia Işıklıkaya-Laubscher
Mosaics in Perge Preliminary Report on the Mosaics of the Macellum 467
Werner Jobst
Das Mosaikpaviment der fruumlhchristlichen Basilika von GoumlnenGerme in Mysien (Hellespont) 483
Lyudmila G KhrushkovaOpus Sectile Pavements in the Crimea and on the East Coast of the Black Sea 505
Ruth Kolarik
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implications for other Regions 519
Emine Koumlker
Antik Ccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At İkonografisi 531
Maja Kramer
Signs of Progression in the Personifications of the Seasons in Roman Mosaics e Artistic Approach Procedures and Tools Used by the Craftsmen to Relate the Viewer to the Experience of the Passing of Time 547
Delphine Lauritzen
Mosaiumlques drsquoOkeacuteanos et de alassa agrave Zurich Une proposition de mise en perspective 555
Filomena Limatildeo
e Vasersquos Representation (Cantharus Crater) on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Significant Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late Antiquity 565
Virgiacutelio Lopes
Late Antiquity in Portugal e Mosaics 585
Guadalupe Loacutepez Monteagudo
Opora through East and West Abundance Allegories in Mosaics of Spain and Turkey 597
Irene Mantildeas Romero
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of Italica Firmament Images 615
Luz Neira
e Sea iasos of Nereids and Tritons in the Roman Mosaics of Turkey 631
Marek Titien Olszewski
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 655
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İccedilindekiler Table of Contentsx
Marek Titien Olszewski ndash Piotr Zakrzewski
e Decoration of the Dining Rooms at Ptolemais in Cyrenaica (Libya) in the Light of the Last Researches 665
Elda Omari
e History and Development of Mosaics in Albania (4th 3rd Century BC ndash 6 th Century AD) 675
Asher OvadiahConservative Approaches in the Ancient Synagogue Mosaic Pavements in Israele Cases of lsquoEin Gedi and SepphorisZippori 693
Ali Kazım Oumlz
e Mosaics of Metropolis in Ionia 701
Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
Building with Mosaics of Olympos Mosaics of Late Ancient Era ndash Early Byzantine Period 709
David Parrish - Birte Poulsen
Late Antique Tombs with Mosaics in Ancient Halikarnassos 721
Bernard ParzyszUne grande famille de deacutecors geacuteomeacutetriques 735
Silvia Pedone
e Marble Omphalos of Saint Sophia in Constantinople An Analysis of an Opus Sectile Pavement of Middle Byzantine Age 749
Claudia Pelosi ndash Ulderico Santamaria
e 6 th Century AD Floor Mosaic of the Church of Kuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Characterization of the Constitutive Materials Finding of the Quarries of Origin 769
Miguel Pessoa
Stibadium with a Mosaic in the Roman Villa of Rabaccedilal Penela Portugal 779Vania Popova ndash Alexander Lirsch
Corpus of Late Antique and Early Christian Mosaics in Bulgaria 793
Manuel Romero ndash Sebastiaacuten Vargas
Mosaic Workshop Located in the Villa de la Estacioacuten de Antequera Maacutelaga (Espantildea) 823
Idit Sagiv-Hayik
e Hellenistic Mosaic of Dor ndash Figural Image or eatrical Mask 829
Barış Salman
Reflection of Some Cults and Rituels on Mosaics and Reliefs in Osroene and Other Syrian Cultures 843
M Pilar San Nicolaacutes Pedraz
On a Mosaic from Maacutelaga with the Depiction of ZeusJupiter and Antiope 853
Derya Şahin
Myndos Mosaics 865
Y Selccediluk Şener
Mozaiklerin Korunmasında Temel Kriterler 873
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Alessandro Taddei
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of Saint Eirene at Constantinople 883
Giordana Trovabene
Knots of Lines like Weaves of reads A Corpus of Early Medieval Mosaics in ldquoVenetordquo 897
Fuumlsun Tuumlleke Bejewelled Lady of Sinope 921
Julia Valeva
Une riche domus de Stara Zagora ( Augusta Trajana-Beroe ) Publication preacuteliminaire 927
Zeev Weiss
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between East and West 941
Patricia Witts
Mosaic Studies and Souvenirs 953
Şehriguumll Yeşil-Erdek
Display of Ancient Mosaics Tourism as an Influential Factor Steering the Decision Making Process 963
Diklah Zohar
Application Procedures of Mosaics and the Division of Production Work Examples from Madaba Beth Alpha and Antioch 969
Hande Koumlkten
A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of Turkey Condition Survey of Mosaics 975
Hande Koumlkten
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as a Management Activity of Archaeological Sites 983
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BİLİMSEL PROGRAM SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
16 October 2009 Fr983145day
0900 - 1040 Open983145ng Ceremony OumlRDEKLİ COMPLEX
HALL A HALL B
Panel 1Moderator Dav983145d Parr983145sh
Panel 2Moderator Werner Jobst
1040 - 1100
La Fausse Iph983145geacuten983145e Dant983145oche Une Eacuten983145gme Enf983145n
ReacutesolueJean - P983145erre Darmon
Les Personn983145f983145cat983145ons Des Sa983145sons Sur Les MosaiumlquesTard983145ves (983145ve-v983145e S983145egravecles) De La Part983145e Or983145entale Du
Bass983145n Meacuted983145terraneacuteen (Turqu983145e Syr983145e Jordan983145ePalest983145ne)Anne-Soph983145e Deacutecr983145aud
1100 - 1120 Intrecc983145 d983145 l983145nee come trame d983145 f983145l983145 Per un corpus de983145mosa983145c983145 altomed983145eval983145 del VenetoG983145ordana Trovabene
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 3Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 4Moderator Anne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
1215 - 1235 Reflect983145on of Cults and R983145tuels on Mosa983145cs andRel983145efs 983145n Osroene and Other Syr983145an CulturesBarış Salman
Aspects Of Euerget983145sm And Soc983145o Econom983145c ForcesIn Byzant983145ne And Early Islam983145c Mosa983145cs In JordanBasema Hamarneh
1235 - 1255Les Pavements des Thermes Agraversquo octogone De PupputAiumlcha Ben Abed - Roger Hanoune
Mosa983145c Decorat983145on 983145n C983145v983145c Context Late ant983145quepavements from PergeIşıl R Işıklıkaya
1255 - 1315
Derec983145k Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacutegl983145se pour deuxmosaiumlquesM983145chel E FuchsSoph983145e Delbarre-Baumlrtsch983145
Bursa Moza983145kler983145Recep Okccedilu
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
HALL A HALL B
Panel 5Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 6Moderator Aiumlcha Ben Abed
1500 - 1520The VI th century floor mosa983145c of the church ofKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Mar983145a Andaloro - Paola Pogl983145an983145
Erz983145ncan - Altıntepe K983145l983145se Moza983145kler983145B983145rol Can
1520 - 1540The Bas983145l983145ca Of Ag983145o983145 Sarantak983145rklar Tekke In CyprusAnd Its Mosa983145csAndreas Foul983145as
D983145onysos et la mer les mosaiumlques agrave lrsquoeacutepoquehelleacuten983145st983145que et au deacutebut de lrsquoeacutepoque 983145mpeacuter983145aleAnne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
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1540 - 1600Early Byzant983145ne Mosa983145cs W983145th Person983145f983145cat983145ons FromTurkey And Syr983145aChr983145st983145ne Kondoleon
El Mosa983145co Pav983145mental De La Basiacutel983145ca De L983145lla Del Re983145G983145sela R983145poll Catal983145na MasM983145guel Aacutengel Cau
1600 - 1620Corpus Of Late Ant983145que And Early Chr983145st983145an Mosa983145csIn Bulgar983145aAlexander L983145rsch
Mosa983145cs In Ant983145och A Morpholog983145cal Observat983145onD983145klah Zohar
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630 - 1640 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 7Moderator Mar983145a Andaloro
Panel 8Moderator B983145rol Can
1640 - 1700Pompe983145opol983145s ( Taşkoumlpruuml )Lu983145sa Musso
La Produz983145one Pav983145mentale Pugl983145ese Tra Tardoant983145coE Med983145oevo Evoluz983145one Tecn983145ca E St983145l983145st983145caCarr983145no Rachele
1700 - 1720La ma983145son des deux l983145ons agrave CarthageAiumlcha Ben-AbedBen Khader - Cather983145ne Balmelle
Putt983145ng In Context Two Mosa983145cs Of Okeanos AndThalassaDelph983145ne Renaut
1720 - 1740
1740 - 1800 DISCUSSION
1900 - 2200 DINNER Mevlev983145 Presentat983145on
17 October 2009 Saturday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 9Moderator Luisa Musso
Panel 10Moderator Asuman Baldıran
0900 - 0920New Mosaics at the Colonia Patricia CordubaFrancesc Josep de Rueda Roigeacute
Parallel Research Fresco Painting Of Chora AndSopocani Violeta C OcokoljicJugoslav Ocokoljic
0920 - 0940Sailing in the Dead Sea - Madaba Map MosaicZaraza Friedman
Mosaique funeacuteraire drsquoOrpheacutee de Jerusalem auMuseacutee Archeacuteologique drsquoIstanbul CompleacutementdrsquoenquecircteMarek Titien Olszewski
0940 - 1000Literary References on Three Roman MosaicPanelsSarah E Cox
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implicationsfor Other RegionsRuth Kolarik
1000 - 1020I Mosaici delle Basiliche Paleocristianedellrsquoisola di CosLorella Maria De Matteis
The Marble Floor Decoration in ConstantinopleProlegomen to a Corpus Alessandra Guiglia
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 11Moderator Derya Şahin
Panel 12Moderator Zaraza Friedman
1040 - 1100
Conservative Approaches In The SynagogueMosaic Pavements In Israel The Cases Of lsquoeinGedi And Sepphoris Zippori Asher Ovadiah
Theatre and Art Mosaics as Evidence forDramatic PerformanceKatherine Dunbabin
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1100 - 1020Late Antique Tombs With Mosaics In AncientHalikarnassosDavid Parrish - Birte Poulsen
A Propos Des Opus Sectile Deacutecouverts Dans LaMaison Du Cours Pourtoules (orange-vaucluse)Eric Morvillez
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 13Moderator Birte Poulsen
Panel 14Moderator Asher Ovadiah
1215 - 1235The Mosaic Pavement of the Early ChristianBasilica At GoumlnenGerme In Mysia laquoHellespontraquoWerner Jobst
Oriental motifs and patterns in the mosaic art ofTarragonaRosario Navarro
1235 - 1255The Vith Century Floor Mosaic Of The Church OfKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) Ulderico Santamaria - Claudia Pelosi
The Marble Omphalos Of The St Sophia OfConstantinople Analysis Of An Opus SectilePavement Of The Middle Byzantine PeriodSilvia Pedone
1255 - 1315Torba Manastır Kompleksi Mozaikleri M Aykut Oumlzet
The Marble Floor Of St John Studius InConstantinople A Forgotten MasterpieceClaudia Barsanti
1315 - 1330Sardisrsquoteki Geccedil Roma-Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaikleriEmine Tok
Mylasa Mozaikleri Abuzer Kızıl
1330 - 1345 DISCUSSION
1400 - 2200 DERECİK ( BUumlYUumlKORHAN ) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
18 October 2009 Sunday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 15Moderator Hakan Mert
Panel 16Moderator Michel E Fuchs
0900 - 0920Basic Criteria for the Preservation of Mosaics AGuide for Archaeologists ISelccediluk Şener
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between Eastand WestZeev Weiss
0920 - 0940
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as aManagement Activity of Archaeological Sites AGuide for Archaeologists IIHande Koumlkten
Une Grande Famille de Deacutecors GeacuteomeacutetriquesBernard Parzysz
0940 - 1000
Display of Ancient Mosaics İn Situ Tourism as anInuential Factor Steering the Decision MakingProcessŞehriguumll Yeşil Erdek
Mosaicos Mitoloacutegicos de Zeugma Y de Hispania Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
1000 - 1020 A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of TurkeyCondition Survey of MosaicsHande Koumlkten
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of SaintEirene at Constantinople Alessandro Taddei
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 2200 IZNIK (NICEA) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
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19 October 2009 Monday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 17Moderator Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Panel 18Moderator Veronika Scheibelreiter
0900 - 0920Signs of the Progression of Time in RomanMosaic ArtMaja Kramer
Une Nouvelle Mosaiumlque sur lrsquooppidum drsquoAlegraves(Gard France) Veacuteronique Blanc- BijonFabienne Olmer
0920 - 0940 Antikccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At Ikonograsi Emine Koumlker
The Latest Archaeological Discoveries about theMediana MosaicsGordana Jeremic
0940 - 1000New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa ATorre Annunziata ItalyJohn R Clarke - Lea Cline
Architekturdarstellungen auf roumlmischen MosaikenKleinasienHakan Mert
1000 - 1020Late Antiquity Mosaics in Portugal Virgilio Lopez
Orpheus Some Metaphors in MosaicNeil Cookson
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 19Moderator Selccediluk Şener
Panel 20Moderator Patricia Witts
1040 - 1100Opus Sectile Pavements From Western AsiaMinor Veronika Scheibelreiter
The First Roman Mosaics Discovered in CetobrigaCarlos Tavares da Silva - Joaquina Soares -Liciacutenia Wrench
1100 - 1020
Indagini Archeologiche A Palazzo ValentiniunQuartiere Residenziale Ai Margini Del ForoTraianoPaola Baldassarri
Olympos Mozaikli YapıGeccedil Antik Ccedilağ - Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaiklerinin Teknik ve Stil Değerlendirmesi Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 21Moderator Hande Koumlkten
Panel 22Moderator Liciacutenia Wrench
1215 - 1235Mosaic Studies And Souvenirs Leaving no StoneUnturnedPatricia Witts
The Mosaic of Leukippe and Theonoe in theKointos Villa in ZeugmaPaolo Vitellozzi
1235 - 1255Notice Mosaic of laquothe House of Medusaraquo(portugal Alter do Chatildeo)Maria Teresa Caetano
Metropolis Mozaikleri Ali Kazım Oumlz
1255 - 1315 Zeugma Danae Evinin MozaikleriMehmet Oumlnal
Mosaicos Con la Iconograa de Thethismadre
de Aquiles en Turquia Y en Otros Enclaves delImperio RomanoMercedes Duran Penedo
1315 - 1330 LUNCH
1330 - 1530 AIEMA MEETING
DISENGAGED DINNER
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20 October 2009 Tuesday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 23Moderator Mehmet Onal
Panel 24Moderator Paolo Vitellozzi
0900 - 0920De Que Hablamos Cuando Hablamos de TalleresMusivos Tardios en HispaniaMercedes Torres Carro
The Bejewelled Lady of SinopeFuumlsun Tuumllek
0920 - 0940 A new reading of the Dor mosaicIdit Sagiv-Hayik
Milli Azerbaycan Tarihi Muumlzesinde Hristyan AbideleriFariz Halilli
0940 - 1000Konya Tatkoumly ve Alibeykoumly Houmlyuumlğuuml Mozaikleri Asuman Baldıran- Osman Doğanay
Salamis Kenti Opus Sectile Taban Doumlşemeleri Aytaccedil Coşkun
1000 - 1020Il Mosaico di Metiochos E Parthenope da ZeugmaLucia Romizzi - Andrea Carini
Non-Destructive Investigations on Mosaic of theChurch of the Three HierarchsM Geba - N Vornicu - C Bibire
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 25Moderator Işıl R Işıklıkaya
Panel 26Moderator Luz Neira
1040 - 1100
Late Antique Private Luxury The Mosaic FloorsOf The Urban Mansion Of Sagalassos (ağlasunBurdur)Inge Uytterhoeven - Hande Koumlkten - MarcWaelkens - Markku Corremans
The Role of Late Antique Art in Early ChristianWorship A Reconsideration of the Iconographyof The lsquostarry Skyrsquo in Mosaics of the Late 5th -Early 6th C AdEllen Swift - Anne Alwis
1100 - 1020The Early Christian Mosaics with the Inscriptionsin CroatiaMarija Buzov
La Construccioacuten de las identidades de geacutenero atraveacutes de los mosaicos antioquenosJesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 27Moderator Marija Buzov
Panel 28Moderator Maja Kramer
1215 - 1235Kaunos Kubbeli Kilise Ek Yapısırsquondaki TabanMozaiği Ayşe Aydın
El Thiasos Marino en los Mosaicos Romanos deTurquiacuteaLuz Neira
1235 - 1255
The Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics Bugini RobertoFolli Luisa Portulano BrunellaRofa Elisabetta
A stibadium with a mosaic in the Roman Villa ofRabaccedilal Penela PortugalMiguel Pessoa
1255 - 1315
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romainede Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de AlgarveMaria De Jesus Duran Kremer
Mosaiumlques mythologiques de Zeugma Originaliteacuteet Liens iconographiques avec la peinturepompeacuteienne et les mosaiumlques italiques etafricains du I-II siegravecleLucia Romizzi
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
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HALL A HALL B
Panel 29Moderator Maria Kremer
Panel 30Moderator Miguel Pessoa
1500 - 1520
The Vases Representation (cantharus Crater)on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Signicant
Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late AntiquityFilomena Limatildeo
The Rape of Hylas and the Spectacles of the Amphitheatre on a Floor Mosaic from Volubilis
(Morocco)Margherita Carucci
1520 - 1540The Herakles mosaic discovered in Homs (Syria)Komait Abdallah
Myndos MosaicsDerya Şahin
1540 - 1600Les Mosaiumlques Agrave Thegraveme MythologiqueReacutecemment Deacutecouvertes Agrave NicircmesJean-yves Breuil
A Late Antique Residence in Augusta TraianaProvince of ThraceJulia Valeva
1600 - 1620Floor mosaics from a Roman villa in NinJagoda Meder
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of ItalicaFirmament ImagesIrene Mantildeas Romero
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630FREE TIME- BURSA -
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KISALTMALAR ABBREVIATIONS
AA Archaeologischer Anzeiger
Abulg Archaeologia Bulgarica
Acontia Acontia Revista de arqueologiacutea
ActaInstRomFin Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae
AEspA Archivo espantildeol de arqueologiacutea
AISCOM LrsquoAssociazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico
AJA American Journal of Archaelology
AJug Archaeologia JugoslavicaAM Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts Athenische Abteilung
AMethTh Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
AMS Asia Minor Studien
AnatoliaA Anatolia Antiqua
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der roumlmischen Welt
AnSt Anatolian Studies
AntAfr Antiquiteacutes africaines
AntigCr Antiguumledad y Cristianismo Monografiacuteas histoacutericas sobre la antiguumledad tardiacutea
AntK Antike Kunst
AntTard Antiquiteacute tardive Revue internationale drsquohistoire et drsquoarcheacuteologie
APregl Arheološki pregled Arheološko društvo JugoslavijeAquilNost Aquileia nostra Bollettino dellrsquoAssociazione nazionale per Aquileia
ArchCl Archeologia classica
Archeologia Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Published by the Society ofAntiquaries of London
ArtB The Art Bulletin
ASSAPH Assaph Studies in Art History
AST Araştırma Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
Atiqot Atiqot Journal of the Israel Department of Antiquities
AttiMemIstria Atti e memorie della Societagrave istriana di archeologia e storia patria
AW Antike Welt Zeitschrift fuumlr Archaumlologie und Kulturgeschichte
BAA Bulletin drsquoarcheologie algerienneBABesch Bulletin antieke beschaving Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology
BAcHist Boletiacuten de la Real academia de la historia
Baetica Baetica Estudios de arte geografiacutea e historia
BAR British Archaeological Reports British Series
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BCH Bulletin de correspondance helleacutenique
BCom Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxx
BCTH Bulletin archeacuteologique du Comiteacute des travaux historiques et scientifiques Paris
BdA Bollettino drsquoarte
BEFAR Bibliothegraveque des Ecoles franccedilaises drsquoAthegravenes et de Rome
Belleten Belleten Tuumlrk Tarih Kurumu
BJb Bonner Jahrbuumlcher des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn
BMQ The British Museum Quarterly BMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
Boreas Boreas Muumlnstersche Beitraumlge zur Archaumlologie
BSA The British school of Archaeology at Athens
BSEAA Boletin del Seminario de estudios de arte y arqueologia
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
BT Babylonian Talmud
BullAIEMA Bulletin de lrsquoAssociation internationale pour lrsquoetude de la mosaique antique
BullMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
CArch Cahiers archeacuteologiques
CEDAC CEDAC Bulletin Centre drsquoeacutetudes et de documentation archeacuteologique de la conservation deCartage
CEFR Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome
Chiron Chiron Mitteilungen der Kommission fuumlr Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des DeutschenArchaumlologischen Instituts
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
ClJ The Classical Journal
CMG Convegni di studi sulla Magna Grecia
CMGR I La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane I H STERN - G Ch PICARD (eds) Paris 1965 (Actes du Iercolloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Paris 30 aoucirct-3 septembre 1963)
CMGR II La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane II H STERN - M LE GAY (eds) Paris 1975 (Actes du IIe
colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Vienne-Isegravere 30 aoucirct-4septembre 1971)
CMGR III III Colloquio internazionale sul mosaico antico R FARIOLI CAMPANATI (eacuted) Ravenna1983 (Actes du IIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Ravenna6-10 septembre 1980)
CMGR IV La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane IV J -P DARMON - A REBOURG (eds) Paris 1994 (Actesdu IVe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique TregravevesTrier 8-14 aoucirct1984)
CMGR V Fifth Interneational Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics 1 - 2 P Johnson R Ling D J Smith(eds) Ann Arbor M1 1994 and 1995 (Actes du V e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de lamosaiumlque antique Bath 5-12 septembre 1987) (JRA supp9)
CMGR VI VI Col loquio internacional s obre mosaico ant iquo Palenc ia-Meacuterida Octubre 199 0D Fernandez GALIANO (ed) Guadalajara 1994 (Actes du VIe colloque international pour
lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Palencia-Meacuterida octobre 1990)CMGR VII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VII M ENNAIFER - A REBOURG (eds) Tunis 1999 (Actes
du VIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Tunis 3-7 octobre 1994)
CMGR VIII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VIII D PAUNNIER - Chr SCHMIDT (eds) Lausanne 2001(Actes du VIIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevaleLausanne 6-11 octobre 1997) Cahiers drsquoArcheacuteologie Romande 85-86
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviations xxi
CMGR IX La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine IX Heacutelegravene MORLIER (eacuted) Rome 2005 (Actes du IXe colloqueinternational pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome Eacutecole franccedilaisePalazzo Altemps 5 ndash 10 novembre 2001) (Coll EFR 352) (2 vol)
CMGR X La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine X (in Publised)
CMGR XI XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve AntikDoumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi Mozaiklerin Başlan-gıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi Stil ve Teknik uumlzerine Sorular 11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS Mosaics of Turkey andParallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World Questions ofIconography Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late ByzantineEra Mustafa ŞAHİN (Ed) Bursa 2009 (İstanbul 2011)
DNP Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopaumldie der Antike
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Empuacuteries Empuacuteries Revista de prehistograveria arqueologia i etnologia
EPRO Etudes preacuteliminaires aux religions orientales dans lrsquoempire romain
ExcIsr Excavations and Surveys in Israel
Expedition Expedition The Magazine of Archaeology Anthropology
FiE Forschungen in EphesosForschungen I -III Forschungen in Salona I Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institute
Gallia Gallia Fouilles et monuments archeacuteologiques en France metropolitaine
Habis Habis Universidad de Sevilla Arqueologiacutea filologiacutea claacutesica
Historia Historia Zeitschrift fuumlr Alte Geschichte
HistriaAnt Histria antiqua Casopis Međunarodnog Istraživačkog Centra za Arheologiju Journal of theInternational Research Centre for Archeology
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Iliria Iliria Revisteuml arkeologjike
IMT Paul Gauckler Inventaire des mosaiumlques de la Gaule et de lrsquoAfrique tome II AfriqueProconsulaire (Tunisie) Paris 1910 Suppleacutement Alfred Merlin Paris 1915
IstForsch Istanbuler Forschungen
IstMitt Istanbuler Mitteilungen
IvE Inschriften griechischer Staumldte aus Kleinasien
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JAT Journal of Ancient Topography - Rivista di topografia antica
JbAC Jahrbuch fuumlr Antike und Christentum
JbOumlByz Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JdI Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts
JHS The Journal of Hellenic Studies
JMR Journal of Mosaic Research
JOumlAI Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in WienJOumlB Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
JRS The Journal of Roman Studies
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
Klio Klio Beitraumlge zur alten Geschichte
Kokalos Kώκαλος Studi pubblicati dallacuteIstituto di storia antica dellacuteUniversitagrave di Palermo
KST Kazı Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxxii
LA Liber Annuus Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Jeacuterusalem
Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
Le Deacutecor II C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J-P DARMON S GOZLAN M-P RAYNAUDLe deacutecor geacuteomeacutetrique de la Mosaiumlque Romaine II Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif desdeacutecors centreacutes Paris 2002
LIMC Lexikon iconographicum mythologiae classicaeLLAuml Lexikon der AumlgyptologieLRAC Reallexikon fuumlr Antike und Christentum
LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Mainake Mainake Estudios de arqueologiacutea Malaguentildea
MEFR Melanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome
MEFRA Meacutelanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome Antiquiteacute
MEFRM Meacutelanges de lrsquoEacutecole Franccedilaise de Rome Moyen Age
MitChrA Mitteilungen zur christlichen Archaumlologie
MKKS Muumlze Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu
MM Madrider Mitteilungen
Museacuteon Le Museacuteon Revue drsquoeacutetudes orientales
OumlJh Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in Wien
OpArch Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom Opuscula archaeologica
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Peristil Peristil Zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti
PriloziZagreb Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu
QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine
RA Revue archeacuteologique
RACr Rivista di archeologia cristiana
RB Revue biblique
RBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen Kunst Begruumlndet von K Wessel und M Restle Herausgege-Herausgege-ben von M Restle (Stuttgart)
RCHM Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
RHVaud Revue historique vaudoise
StudMisc Peter Johnson - Roger Ling - David J Smith (ed) Fifth International Colloquium on AncientMosaics held at Bath England on September 5 ndash 12 Ann Arbor Michigan 1994 et 1995(Actes du Ve colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique) (JRA SupplementarySeries 9) (2 vol)
TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
Traditio Traditio Studies in Ancient and Medieval History Thought and Religion
TuumlrkAD Tuumlrk Arkeoloji Dergisi
WO Die Welt des Orients
ZDPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaumlstina-Vereins
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e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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Gregory of Nyssa laquo Vie de Macrine raquo
HEALEY 2006
J F Healey ldquoA New Syriac Mosaic Inscriptionrdquo JSSLI2 313-327
JEFFREYS et al 2008 E Jeffreys ndash J Haldon ndash R Cormack The Oxford
Handbook of Byzantine Studies Oxford
JESNICK 1997 I Jesnick The Image of Orpheus in Roman Mosaic An
Exploration of the Figure of Orpheus in Graeco-Roman
Art and Culture with Special Reference to its Expression
in the Medium of MosaIc in Late Antiquity OxfordBAR International Series 671 nr 73 141
LAZREG 2002
N B Lazreg Image de pierre La Tunisie en mosaiumlqueA ben Abed-ben Khader (ed) Paris 488-490
LIDDEL ndash SCOTT 1940 HG Liddel ndash R Scott Greek-English Lexicon
Oxford
MICHAELIDES 1992 D Michaelides Cypriot Mosaics Nicosia
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MUCZNIK et al 2004 S Mucznik ndash A Ovadiah ndash Y Turnhaim Art in Eretz
Israel in Late Antiquity Collectanea Tel Aviv 193-208= OVADIAH A et MUCZNIK S 1981 ldquoOrpheus fromJerusalem ndash Pagan or Christian Imagerdquo The Jerusalem
Cathedra 1 Jerusalem 152-166
OLSZEWSKI 1995 M T Olszewski laquo Lrsquoimage et sa fonction dans la
mosaiumlque byzantine des premiegraveres basiliques en OrientLrsquoiconographie chreacutetienne expliqueacutee par Cyrille deJeacuterusalem (314-387) raquo CArch 43 9-35
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OLSZEWSKI 2000 M T Olszewski laquo Eacutevocation allusive des maximes des
Sept Sages A propos de la ldquoColegravere drsquoAchilleldquo sur lamosaiumlque de Meacuterida raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LI 37-46 pls IV-V
OLSZEWSKI 2001 MT Olszewski laquo Arteacutemidore mythologie et sym-
bolique funeacuteraire raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LII 39-60pls XI-XV
OLSZEWSKI 2001 M T Olszewski laquo Le langage symbolique dans
la deacutecoration agrave scegravenes mythologiques et sonsens dans les tombes peintes de lrsquoOrient romainNouvelle approche raquoVIIe Colloque de lrsquoAssociation
Internationale pour lrsquoeacutetude de la peinture antiqueSt-Romain-en-Gal 1998 Paris 2001 155-162 plsXXVI-XXIX
OLSZEWSKI 2001
M T Olszewski laquo Mauvais œil et protection contrelrsquoenvie dans la mosaiumlque de Cheikh Zouegravede au Sinaiuml(IV-Ve siegravecle) raquo D Paunier - C Schmidt (eds) Actes du VIIIegraveme Colloque International pour lrsquo eacutetude
de la Mosaiumlque Antique 1-2 Lausanne Cahiersdrsquoarcheacuteologie romande 276-301
OLSZEWSKI 2005 M T Olszewski ldquoThe Historical Background of the
Zodiac Mosaic Calendar in the Lower Synagogue atHammath-Tiberias raquo Newsletter of American Schools
of Oriental Research 55 nr 3 18
OLSZEWSKI 2005
M T Olszewski laquo Le statut de lrsquoimage selonArteacutemidore et lrsquoart romain raquo H Morlier (ed) Actes du
IX e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque
antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome novembre 2001 Rome Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome-352 II859-880
OLSZEWSKI 2006 M T Olszewski laquo La mosaiumlque de la Fecircte Nocturne
Pannychis de Shahba-Philippopolis et le teacutemoignagedrsquoArteacutemidore de Daldis (Onirocriticon II 61) raquo inKalathos Studies in Honour of Asher Ovadiah TelAviv ASSAPH 2005-2006 Studies in Art History vols10-11 381-390
OLSZEWSKI 2010 M T Olszewski laquo Images allusives Dionysos et Ariane
dans lrsquoespace reacuteserveacute aux femmes (gyneacuteceacutee) Le cas dePtoleacutemaiumls et Cyregravene en Libye raquo in I Bragantini edActes du X Congresso Internazionale AssociationInternationale pour la Peinture Murale AntiqueNeapol 17-21 septembre 2007 Annali di Archeologiae storia antica 181 315 321
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funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalem raquo Rey Mimoso-Ruiz BMimoso-Ruiz (ed) Actes du colloque laquo Orpheacutee entreSoleil et ombre raquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulouse du16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial
ndash mars 2008 205-214 226OLSZEWSKI 2009 M T Olszewski laquo Identification de cadrans solaires
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les morts dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute tardive EPHESS Collection
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12 150-157
STONE 2006 M E Stone Apocrypha Pseudepigrapha and Armenian
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STRZYGOWSKI 1901 J Strzygowski ldquoDa Neuegefundene Orpheus Mosaik in
Jerusalemrdquo ZDPV 24 139-165
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The Transition of Orpheus theme from Poganism toChristianity in late Roman-Early Byzantine MosaicsIstanbul
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tardive Les mutations drsquoun mythe du heacuteros paiumlen auchantre chreacutetien Paris De Boccard
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RB 10 436-444
VINCENT 1902 H Vincent laquo La mosaiumlque drsquoOrpheacutee raquo RB 11
100-103
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KURULLAR COMMITTEE
Organizasyon Komitesi Organizing Committee
Onursal Başkan Honorary President
Prof Dr Mete CengizRector of Uludag University Uludağ Uumlniversitesi Rektoumlruuml
Onur Kurulu Honorary CommitteeErtuğrul Guumlnay
Kuumlltuumlr ve Turizm Bakanı Minister of Culture and Tourism
Şahabettin HarputBursa Valisi Governor of Bursa
Recep AltepeBursa Buumlyuumlkşehir Belediye Başkanı Mayor of metropolitan municipality of Bursa
Sempozyum Başkanı Symposium PresidentProf Dr Mustafa Şahin
Başkan Yardımcısı Vice PresidentDr Derya Şahin
Sempozyum Sekreterleri Symposium SecretariesAli Altın - Başak Emir
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Bilimsel Komite Scientific CommitteeProf Dr Mustafa ŞahinProf Dr Henri Lavagne
Prof Dr Catherine BalmelleProf Dr David ParrishProf Dr Werner Jobst
Prof Dr Michael Fuchs
Prof Dr Anne-Marie Guimier-SorbetsProf Dr Demetrios MichaelideProf Dr Giordana Trovabene
Prof Dr Janine Balty Prof Dr Federico Guidobaldi
Prof Dr Guadalupe Lopez MonteagudoProf Dr Asher OvadiahDoccedil Dr Guumlrcan PolatDoccedil Dr İ Hakan Mert
Dr Aiumlcha Ben-AbedDr Jean-Pierre Darmon
Dr Derya ŞahinDr Patricia Witts
Miguel Pessoa
Lokal Organizasyon Komitesi Local Organizing CommitteeProf Dr Zeren Tanındı
Prof Dr Selccediluk KırlıProf Dr İsmail Naci Canguumll
Ass Prof Hakan MertAss Prof Guumlrcan Polat
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İCcedilİNDEKİLER TABLE OF CONTENTS
Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xiii
Kısaltmalar Abreviations xix
Giriş xxiii
Foreword xxv
Komait Abdallah
Mosaiumlque drsquoHeacuteraclegraves deacutecouverte agrave Homs (Syrie centrale) 1
Maria Andaloro ndash Paola Pogliani
e 6 th Century Mosaic Floor of the Church of Kuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) A Model for an Integrated Analysis between Knowledge Conservation and Documentation 15
Ayşe Aydın
Das Fussbodenmosaik des Annexbaus in der Kuppelkirche in Kaunos e Floor Mosaics at the Annex Building of the Domed Church 31
Paola Baldassarri
Archaeological Excavations at Palazzo Valentini A Residential Area in the Shade of the Trajanrsquos Forum 43
Catherine Balmelle ndash Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader ndash Fathi Bejaoui La Maison des Deux Lions agrave Carthage 69
Claudia Barsanti
e Marble Floor of St John Studius in Constantinople A Neglected Masterpiece 87
Aiumlcha Ben Abed amp Roger Hanoune
Les pavements mosaiumlqueacutes des ermes agrave lrsquooctagone de Pupput (Hammamet Tunisie) 99
Jesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
e Social Construction of Gender Identities through the Ancient Mosaics from Antioch 107
Veacuteronique Blanc-Bijon ndash Fabienne Olmer avec la collaboration de Marie-Laure Courboulegraves
Une nouvelle mosaiumlque sur lrsquo oppidum de lrsquoErmitage agrave Alegraves (Gard France) 121
Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Mythology in Mosaics of Zeugma and Hispania Similarities and Differences 137
Roberto Bugini ndash Luisa Folli ndash Brunella Portulano ndash Elisabetta Roffia
e Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics A Case-Study in Northern Italy 163
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Marija Buzov
e Early Christian Mosaics with Inscription in Croatia 171
Javier Cabrero Piquero
A New Hispano-Roman Mosaic with the Story of Meleager 193
Maria Teresa Caetano ndash Caacutetia Mouratildeo A ldquoPortraitrdquo of Book XII of the AEligneid Mosaic from the laquo House of the Medusa raquo (Alter do Chatildeo Portugal) 205
Birol Can
Technical Stylistic Iconographic Evaluation and Dating of Mosaics of Altıntepe Church 225
Margherita Carucci
An Example of Visual Humour on a Romano-African Mosaic Putting Images in their Context 235
John R Clarke ndash Lea Cline
New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa A Torre Annunziata - Italy - 50 BC ndash AD 79 247
Neil Cookson
Orpheus Some Metaphors in Mosaic 259
Violeta Cvetkovska Ocokoljic ndash Jugoslav Ocokoljic
Parallel Research Fresco Painting of Chora and Sopocani 269
Jean-Pierre Darmon
Une eacutenigme enfin reacutesolue la fausse Iphigeacutenie drsquoAntioche eacutetait une Alceste 283
Carlos Tavares da Silva ndash Joaquina Soares ndash Liciacutenia Nunes Correia Wrench
Les premiegraveres mosaiumlques romaines deacutecouvertes agrave Caetobriga (Setuacutebal Portugal) 295
Anne-Sophie Decriaud
Les Saisons personnifieacutees sur les mosaiumlques romaines tardives (IV e
-VI e
siegravecles) de la partie orientaledu Bassin meacutediterraneacuteen (Turquie Syrie Liban Israeumll Jordanie) 309
Sophie Delbarre-Baumlrtschi
Les mosaiumlques romaines en Suisse 333
Lorella Maria de Matteis
e Mosaics of the Early Christian Basilicas on the Island of Kos 339
Maria de Jesus Duran Kremer
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romaine de Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de lrsquoAlgarve 353
Mercedes Duraacuten Penedo Mosaicos con la iconografiacutea de etis madre de Aquiles en Turquiacutea y en otros enclaves del Imperio 363
Andreas M Foulias
e Basilica of Agioi Saranta Kırklar Tekke in Cyprus and its Mosaics 381
Zaraza Friedman
Ships Depicted in the Madaba Map Mosaic 391
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Michel E Fuchs ndash Sophie Delbarre-Baumlrtschi
Derecik Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacuteglise pour deux mosaiumlques 405
Alessandra Guiglia Guidobaldi
e Marble Floor Decoration in Constantinople Prolegomena to a Corpus 413
Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets Les thegravemes dionysiaques sur les mosaiumlques helleacutenistiques drsquoAsie Mineure (Turquie) 437
Bertrand Houix ndash Veacuteronique Blanc-Bijon ndash Jean-Yves Breuil ndash Jean-Pierre Darmon ndashPascale Linant de Bellefonds
Mosaiumlques agrave thegravemes mythologiques reacutecemment deacutecouvertes sous lrsquoavenue Jean-Jaures agrave Nimes (France) 447
Işıl Rabia Işıklıkaya-Laubscher
Mosaics in Perge Preliminary Report on the Mosaics of the Macellum 467
Werner Jobst
Das Mosaikpaviment der fruumlhchristlichen Basilika von GoumlnenGerme in Mysien (Hellespont) 483
Lyudmila G KhrushkovaOpus Sectile Pavements in the Crimea and on the East Coast of the Black Sea 505
Ruth Kolarik
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implications for other Regions 519
Emine Koumlker
Antik Ccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At İkonografisi 531
Maja Kramer
Signs of Progression in the Personifications of the Seasons in Roman Mosaics e Artistic Approach Procedures and Tools Used by the Craftsmen to Relate the Viewer to the Experience of the Passing of Time 547
Delphine Lauritzen
Mosaiumlques drsquoOkeacuteanos et de alassa agrave Zurich Une proposition de mise en perspective 555
Filomena Limatildeo
e Vasersquos Representation (Cantharus Crater) on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Significant Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late Antiquity 565
Virgiacutelio Lopes
Late Antiquity in Portugal e Mosaics 585
Guadalupe Loacutepez Monteagudo
Opora through East and West Abundance Allegories in Mosaics of Spain and Turkey 597
Irene Mantildeas Romero
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of Italica Firmament Images 615
Luz Neira
e Sea iasos of Nereids and Tritons in the Roman Mosaics of Turkey 631
Marek Titien Olszewski
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 655
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Marek Titien Olszewski ndash Piotr Zakrzewski
e Decoration of the Dining Rooms at Ptolemais in Cyrenaica (Libya) in the Light of the Last Researches 665
Elda Omari
e History and Development of Mosaics in Albania (4th 3rd Century BC ndash 6 th Century AD) 675
Asher OvadiahConservative Approaches in the Ancient Synagogue Mosaic Pavements in Israele Cases of lsquoEin Gedi and SepphorisZippori 693
Ali Kazım Oumlz
e Mosaics of Metropolis in Ionia 701
Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
Building with Mosaics of Olympos Mosaics of Late Ancient Era ndash Early Byzantine Period 709
David Parrish - Birte Poulsen
Late Antique Tombs with Mosaics in Ancient Halikarnassos 721
Bernard ParzyszUne grande famille de deacutecors geacuteomeacutetriques 735
Silvia Pedone
e Marble Omphalos of Saint Sophia in Constantinople An Analysis of an Opus Sectile Pavement of Middle Byzantine Age 749
Claudia Pelosi ndash Ulderico Santamaria
e 6 th Century AD Floor Mosaic of the Church of Kuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Characterization of the Constitutive Materials Finding of the Quarries of Origin 769
Miguel Pessoa
Stibadium with a Mosaic in the Roman Villa of Rabaccedilal Penela Portugal 779Vania Popova ndash Alexander Lirsch
Corpus of Late Antique and Early Christian Mosaics in Bulgaria 793
Manuel Romero ndash Sebastiaacuten Vargas
Mosaic Workshop Located in the Villa de la Estacioacuten de Antequera Maacutelaga (Espantildea) 823
Idit Sagiv-Hayik
e Hellenistic Mosaic of Dor ndash Figural Image or eatrical Mask 829
Barış Salman
Reflection of Some Cults and Rituels on Mosaics and Reliefs in Osroene and Other Syrian Cultures 843
M Pilar San Nicolaacutes Pedraz
On a Mosaic from Maacutelaga with the Depiction of ZeusJupiter and Antiope 853
Derya Şahin
Myndos Mosaics 865
Y Selccediluk Şener
Mozaiklerin Korunmasında Temel Kriterler 873
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Alessandro Taddei
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of Saint Eirene at Constantinople 883
Giordana Trovabene
Knots of Lines like Weaves of reads A Corpus of Early Medieval Mosaics in ldquoVenetordquo 897
Fuumlsun Tuumlleke Bejewelled Lady of Sinope 921
Julia Valeva
Une riche domus de Stara Zagora ( Augusta Trajana-Beroe ) Publication preacuteliminaire 927
Zeev Weiss
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between East and West 941
Patricia Witts
Mosaic Studies and Souvenirs 953
Şehriguumll Yeşil-Erdek
Display of Ancient Mosaics Tourism as an Influential Factor Steering the Decision Making Process 963
Diklah Zohar
Application Procedures of Mosaics and the Division of Production Work Examples from Madaba Beth Alpha and Antioch 969
Hande Koumlkten
A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of Turkey Condition Survey of Mosaics 975
Hande Koumlkten
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as a Management Activity of Archaeological Sites 983
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BİLİMSEL PROGRAM SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
16 October 2009 Fr983145day
0900 - 1040 Open983145ng Ceremony OumlRDEKLİ COMPLEX
HALL A HALL B
Panel 1Moderator Dav983145d Parr983145sh
Panel 2Moderator Werner Jobst
1040 - 1100
La Fausse Iph983145geacuten983145e Dant983145oche Une Eacuten983145gme Enf983145n
ReacutesolueJean - P983145erre Darmon
Les Personn983145f983145cat983145ons Des Sa983145sons Sur Les MosaiumlquesTard983145ves (983145ve-v983145e S983145egravecles) De La Part983145e Or983145entale Du
Bass983145n Meacuted983145terraneacuteen (Turqu983145e Syr983145e Jordan983145ePalest983145ne)Anne-Soph983145e Deacutecr983145aud
1100 - 1120 Intrecc983145 d983145 l983145nee come trame d983145 f983145l983145 Per un corpus de983145mosa983145c983145 altomed983145eval983145 del VenetoG983145ordana Trovabene
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 3Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 4Moderator Anne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
1215 - 1235 Reflect983145on of Cults and R983145tuels on Mosa983145cs andRel983145efs 983145n Osroene and Other Syr983145an CulturesBarış Salman
Aspects Of Euerget983145sm And Soc983145o Econom983145c ForcesIn Byzant983145ne And Early Islam983145c Mosa983145cs In JordanBasema Hamarneh
1235 - 1255Les Pavements des Thermes Agraversquo octogone De PupputAiumlcha Ben Abed - Roger Hanoune
Mosa983145c Decorat983145on 983145n C983145v983145c Context Late ant983145quepavements from PergeIşıl R Işıklıkaya
1255 - 1315
Derec983145k Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacutegl983145se pour deuxmosaiumlquesM983145chel E FuchsSoph983145e Delbarre-Baumlrtsch983145
Bursa Moza983145kler983145Recep Okccedilu
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
HALL A HALL B
Panel 5Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 6Moderator Aiumlcha Ben Abed
1500 - 1520The VI th century floor mosa983145c of the church ofKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Mar983145a Andaloro - Paola Pogl983145an983145
Erz983145ncan - Altıntepe K983145l983145se Moza983145kler983145B983145rol Can
1520 - 1540The Bas983145l983145ca Of Ag983145o983145 Sarantak983145rklar Tekke In CyprusAnd Its Mosa983145csAndreas Foul983145as
D983145onysos et la mer les mosaiumlques agrave lrsquoeacutepoquehelleacuten983145st983145que et au deacutebut de lrsquoeacutepoque 983145mpeacuter983145aleAnne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexiv
1540 - 1600Early Byzant983145ne Mosa983145cs W983145th Person983145f983145cat983145ons FromTurkey And Syr983145aChr983145st983145ne Kondoleon
El Mosa983145co Pav983145mental De La Basiacutel983145ca De L983145lla Del Re983145G983145sela R983145poll Catal983145na MasM983145guel Aacutengel Cau
1600 - 1620Corpus Of Late Ant983145que And Early Chr983145st983145an Mosa983145csIn Bulgar983145aAlexander L983145rsch
Mosa983145cs In Ant983145och A Morpholog983145cal Observat983145onD983145klah Zohar
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630 - 1640 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 7Moderator Mar983145a Andaloro
Panel 8Moderator B983145rol Can
1640 - 1700Pompe983145opol983145s ( Taşkoumlpruuml )Lu983145sa Musso
La Produz983145one Pav983145mentale Pugl983145ese Tra Tardoant983145coE Med983145oevo Evoluz983145one Tecn983145ca E St983145l983145st983145caCarr983145no Rachele
1700 - 1720La ma983145son des deux l983145ons agrave CarthageAiumlcha Ben-AbedBen Khader - Cather983145ne Balmelle
Putt983145ng In Context Two Mosa983145cs Of Okeanos AndThalassaDelph983145ne Renaut
1720 - 1740
1740 - 1800 DISCUSSION
1900 - 2200 DINNER Mevlev983145 Presentat983145on
17 October 2009 Saturday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 9Moderator Luisa Musso
Panel 10Moderator Asuman Baldıran
0900 - 0920New Mosaics at the Colonia Patricia CordubaFrancesc Josep de Rueda Roigeacute
Parallel Research Fresco Painting Of Chora AndSopocani Violeta C OcokoljicJugoslav Ocokoljic
0920 - 0940Sailing in the Dead Sea - Madaba Map MosaicZaraza Friedman
Mosaique funeacuteraire drsquoOrpheacutee de Jerusalem auMuseacutee Archeacuteologique drsquoIstanbul CompleacutementdrsquoenquecircteMarek Titien Olszewski
0940 - 1000Literary References on Three Roman MosaicPanelsSarah E Cox
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implicationsfor Other RegionsRuth Kolarik
1000 - 1020I Mosaici delle Basiliche Paleocristianedellrsquoisola di CosLorella Maria De Matteis
The Marble Floor Decoration in ConstantinopleProlegomen to a Corpus Alessandra Guiglia
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 11Moderator Derya Şahin
Panel 12Moderator Zaraza Friedman
1040 - 1100
Conservative Approaches In The SynagogueMosaic Pavements In Israel The Cases Of lsquoeinGedi And Sepphoris Zippori Asher Ovadiah
Theatre and Art Mosaics as Evidence forDramatic PerformanceKatherine Dunbabin
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xv
1100 - 1020Late Antique Tombs With Mosaics In AncientHalikarnassosDavid Parrish - Birte Poulsen
A Propos Des Opus Sectile Deacutecouverts Dans LaMaison Du Cours Pourtoules (orange-vaucluse)Eric Morvillez
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 13Moderator Birte Poulsen
Panel 14Moderator Asher Ovadiah
1215 - 1235The Mosaic Pavement of the Early ChristianBasilica At GoumlnenGerme In Mysia laquoHellespontraquoWerner Jobst
Oriental motifs and patterns in the mosaic art ofTarragonaRosario Navarro
1235 - 1255The Vith Century Floor Mosaic Of The Church OfKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) Ulderico Santamaria - Claudia Pelosi
The Marble Omphalos Of The St Sophia OfConstantinople Analysis Of An Opus SectilePavement Of The Middle Byzantine PeriodSilvia Pedone
1255 - 1315Torba Manastır Kompleksi Mozaikleri M Aykut Oumlzet
The Marble Floor Of St John Studius InConstantinople A Forgotten MasterpieceClaudia Barsanti
1315 - 1330Sardisrsquoteki Geccedil Roma-Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaikleriEmine Tok
Mylasa Mozaikleri Abuzer Kızıl
1330 - 1345 DISCUSSION
1400 - 2200 DERECİK ( BUumlYUumlKORHAN ) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
18 October 2009 Sunday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 15Moderator Hakan Mert
Panel 16Moderator Michel E Fuchs
0900 - 0920Basic Criteria for the Preservation of Mosaics AGuide for Archaeologists ISelccediluk Şener
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between Eastand WestZeev Weiss
0920 - 0940
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as aManagement Activity of Archaeological Sites AGuide for Archaeologists IIHande Koumlkten
Une Grande Famille de Deacutecors GeacuteomeacutetriquesBernard Parzysz
0940 - 1000
Display of Ancient Mosaics İn Situ Tourism as anInuential Factor Steering the Decision MakingProcessŞehriguumll Yeşil Erdek
Mosaicos Mitoloacutegicos de Zeugma Y de Hispania Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
1000 - 1020 A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of TurkeyCondition Survey of MosaicsHande Koumlkten
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of SaintEirene at Constantinople Alessandro Taddei
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 2200 IZNIK (NICEA) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
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19 October 2009 Monday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 17Moderator Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Panel 18Moderator Veronika Scheibelreiter
0900 - 0920Signs of the Progression of Time in RomanMosaic ArtMaja Kramer
Une Nouvelle Mosaiumlque sur lrsquooppidum drsquoAlegraves(Gard France) Veacuteronique Blanc- BijonFabienne Olmer
0920 - 0940 Antikccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At Ikonograsi Emine Koumlker
The Latest Archaeological Discoveries about theMediana MosaicsGordana Jeremic
0940 - 1000New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa ATorre Annunziata ItalyJohn R Clarke - Lea Cline
Architekturdarstellungen auf roumlmischen MosaikenKleinasienHakan Mert
1000 - 1020Late Antiquity Mosaics in Portugal Virgilio Lopez
Orpheus Some Metaphors in MosaicNeil Cookson
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 19Moderator Selccediluk Şener
Panel 20Moderator Patricia Witts
1040 - 1100Opus Sectile Pavements From Western AsiaMinor Veronika Scheibelreiter
The First Roman Mosaics Discovered in CetobrigaCarlos Tavares da Silva - Joaquina Soares -Liciacutenia Wrench
1100 - 1020
Indagini Archeologiche A Palazzo ValentiniunQuartiere Residenziale Ai Margini Del ForoTraianoPaola Baldassarri
Olympos Mozaikli YapıGeccedil Antik Ccedilağ - Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaiklerinin Teknik ve Stil Değerlendirmesi Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 21Moderator Hande Koumlkten
Panel 22Moderator Liciacutenia Wrench
1215 - 1235Mosaic Studies And Souvenirs Leaving no StoneUnturnedPatricia Witts
The Mosaic of Leukippe and Theonoe in theKointos Villa in ZeugmaPaolo Vitellozzi
1235 - 1255Notice Mosaic of laquothe House of Medusaraquo(portugal Alter do Chatildeo)Maria Teresa Caetano
Metropolis Mozaikleri Ali Kazım Oumlz
1255 - 1315 Zeugma Danae Evinin MozaikleriMehmet Oumlnal
Mosaicos Con la Iconograa de Thethismadre
de Aquiles en Turquia Y en Otros Enclaves delImperio RomanoMercedes Duran Penedo
1315 - 1330 LUNCH
1330 - 1530 AIEMA MEETING
DISENGAGED DINNER
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20 October 2009 Tuesday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 23Moderator Mehmet Onal
Panel 24Moderator Paolo Vitellozzi
0900 - 0920De Que Hablamos Cuando Hablamos de TalleresMusivos Tardios en HispaniaMercedes Torres Carro
The Bejewelled Lady of SinopeFuumlsun Tuumllek
0920 - 0940 A new reading of the Dor mosaicIdit Sagiv-Hayik
Milli Azerbaycan Tarihi Muumlzesinde Hristyan AbideleriFariz Halilli
0940 - 1000Konya Tatkoumly ve Alibeykoumly Houmlyuumlğuuml Mozaikleri Asuman Baldıran- Osman Doğanay
Salamis Kenti Opus Sectile Taban Doumlşemeleri Aytaccedil Coşkun
1000 - 1020Il Mosaico di Metiochos E Parthenope da ZeugmaLucia Romizzi - Andrea Carini
Non-Destructive Investigations on Mosaic of theChurch of the Three HierarchsM Geba - N Vornicu - C Bibire
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 25Moderator Işıl R Işıklıkaya
Panel 26Moderator Luz Neira
1040 - 1100
Late Antique Private Luxury The Mosaic FloorsOf The Urban Mansion Of Sagalassos (ağlasunBurdur)Inge Uytterhoeven - Hande Koumlkten - MarcWaelkens - Markku Corremans
The Role of Late Antique Art in Early ChristianWorship A Reconsideration of the Iconographyof The lsquostarry Skyrsquo in Mosaics of the Late 5th -Early 6th C AdEllen Swift - Anne Alwis
1100 - 1020The Early Christian Mosaics with the Inscriptionsin CroatiaMarija Buzov
La Construccioacuten de las identidades de geacutenero atraveacutes de los mosaicos antioquenosJesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 27Moderator Marija Buzov
Panel 28Moderator Maja Kramer
1215 - 1235Kaunos Kubbeli Kilise Ek Yapısırsquondaki TabanMozaiği Ayşe Aydın
El Thiasos Marino en los Mosaicos Romanos deTurquiacuteaLuz Neira
1235 - 1255
The Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics Bugini RobertoFolli Luisa Portulano BrunellaRofa Elisabetta
A stibadium with a mosaic in the Roman Villa ofRabaccedilal Penela PortugalMiguel Pessoa
1255 - 1315
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romainede Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de AlgarveMaria De Jesus Duran Kremer
Mosaiumlques mythologiques de Zeugma Originaliteacuteet Liens iconographiques avec la peinturepompeacuteienne et les mosaiumlques italiques etafricains du I-II siegravecleLucia Romizzi
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
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HALL A HALL B
Panel 29Moderator Maria Kremer
Panel 30Moderator Miguel Pessoa
1500 - 1520
The Vases Representation (cantharus Crater)on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Signicant
Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late AntiquityFilomena Limatildeo
The Rape of Hylas and the Spectacles of the Amphitheatre on a Floor Mosaic from Volubilis
(Morocco)Margherita Carucci
1520 - 1540The Herakles mosaic discovered in Homs (Syria)Komait Abdallah
Myndos MosaicsDerya Şahin
1540 - 1600Les Mosaiumlques Agrave Thegraveme MythologiqueReacutecemment Deacutecouvertes Agrave NicircmesJean-yves Breuil
A Late Antique Residence in Augusta TraianaProvince of ThraceJulia Valeva
1600 - 1620Floor mosaics from a Roman villa in NinJagoda Meder
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of ItalicaFirmament ImagesIrene Mantildeas Romero
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630FREE TIME- BURSA -
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KISALTMALAR ABBREVIATIONS
AA Archaeologischer Anzeiger
Abulg Archaeologia Bulgarica
Acontia Acontia Revista de arqueologiacutea
ActaInstRomFin Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae
AEspA Archivo espantildeol de arqueologiacutea
AISCOM LrsquoAssociazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico
AJA American Journal of Archaelology
AJug Archaeologia JugoslavicaAM Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts Athenische Abteilung
AMethTh Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
AMS Asia Minor Studien
AnatoliaA Anatolia Antiqua
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der roumlmischen Welt
AnSt Anatolian Studies
AntAfr Antiquiteacutes africaines
AntigCr Antiguumledad y Cristianismo Monografiacuteas histoacutericas sobre la antiguumledad tardiacutea
AntK Antike Kunst
AntTard Antiquiteacute tardive Revue internationale drsquohistoire et drsquoarcheacuteologie
APregl Arheološki pregled Arheološko društvo JugoslavijeAquilNost Aquileia nostra Bollettino dellrsquoAssociazione nazionale per Aquileia
ArchCl Archeologia classica
Archeologia Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Published by the Society ofAntiquaries of London
ArtB The Art Bulletin
ASSAPH Assaph Studies in Art History
AST Araştırma Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
Atiqot Atiqot Journal of the Israel Department of Antiquities
AttiMemIstria Atti e memorie della Societagrave istriana di archeologia e storia patria
AW Antike Welt Zeitschrift fuumlr Archaumlologie und Kulturgeschichte
BAA Bulletin drsquoarcheologie algerienneBABesch Bulletin antieke beschaving Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology
BAcHist Boletiacuten de la Real academia de la historia
Baetica Baetica Estudios de arte geografiacutea e historia
BAR British Archaeological Reports British Series
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BCH Bulletin de correspondance helleacutenique
BCom Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxx
BCTH Bulletin archeacuteologique du Comiteacute des travaux historiques et scientifiques Paris
BdA Bollettino drsquoarte
BEFAR Bibliothegraveque des Ecoles franccedilaises drsquoAthegravenes et de Rome
Belleten Belleten Tuumlrk Tarih Kurumu
BJb Bonner Jahrbuumlcher des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn
BMQ The British Museum Quarterly BMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
Boreas Boreas Muumlnstersche Beitraumlge zur Archaumlologie
BSA The British school of Archaeology at Athens
BSEAA Boletin del Seminario de estudios de arte y arqueologia
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
BT Babylonian Talmud
BullAIEMA Bulletin de lrsquoAssociation internationale pour lrsquoetude de la mosaique antique
BullMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
CArch Cahiers archeacuteologiques
CEDAC CEDAC Bulletin Centre drsquoeacutetudes et de documentation archeacuteologique de la conservation deCartage
CEFR Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome
Chiron Chiron Mitteilungen der Kommission fuumlr Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des DeutschenArchaumlologischen Instituts
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
ClJ The Classical Journal
CMG Convegni di studi sulla Magna Grecia
CMGR I La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane I H STERN - G Ch PICARD (eds) Paris 1965 (Actes du Iercolloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Paris 30 aoucirct-3 septembre 1963)
CMGR II La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane II H STERN - M LE GAY (eds) Paris 1975 (Actes du IIe
colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Vienne-Isegravere 30 aoucirct-4septembre 1971)
CMGR III III Colloquio internazionale sul mosaico antico R FARIOLI CAMPANATI (eacuted) Ravenna1983 (Actes du IIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Ravenna6-10 septembre 1980)
CMGR IV La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane IV J -P DARMON - A REBOURG (eds) Paris 1994 (Actesdu IVe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique TregravevesTrier 8-14 aoucirct1984)
CMGR V Fifth Interneational Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics 1 - 2 P Johnson R Ling D J Smith(eds) Ann Arbor M1 1994 and 1995 (Actes du V e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de lamosaiumlque antique Bath 5-12 septembre 1987) (JRA supp9)
CMGR VI VI Col loquio internacional s obre mosaico ant iquo Palenc ia-Meacuterida Octubre 199 0D Fernandez GALIANO (ed) Guadalajara 1994 (Actes du VIe colloque international pour
lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Palencia-Meacuterida octobre 1990)CMGR VII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VII M ENNAIFER - A REBOURG (eds) Tunis 1999 (Actes
du VIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Tunis 3-7 octobre 1994)
CMGR VIII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VIII D PAUNNIER - Chr SCHMIDT (eds) Lausanne 2001(Actes du VIIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevaleLausanne 6-11 octobre 1997) Cahiers drsquoArcheacuteologie Romande 85-86
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviations xxi
CMGR IX La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine IX Heacutelegravene MORLIER (eacuted) Rome 2005 (Actes du IXe colloqueinternational pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome Eacutecole franccedilaisePalazzo Altemps 5 ndash 10 novembre 2001) (Coll EFR 352) (2 vol)
CMGR X La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine X (in Publised)
CMGR XI XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve AntikDoumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi Mozaiklerin Başlan-gıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi Stil ve Teknik uumlzerine Sorular 11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS Mosaics of Turkey andParallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World Questions ofIconography Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late ByzantineEra Mustafa ŞAHİN (Ed) Bursa 2009 (İstanbul 2011)
DNP Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopaumldie der Antike
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Empuacuteries Empuacuteries Revista de prehistograveria arqueologia i etnologia
EPRO Etudes preacuteliminaires aux religions orientales dans lrsquoempire romain
ExcIsr Excavations and Surveys in Israel
Expedition Expedition The Magazine of Archaeology Anthropology
FiE Forschungen in EphesosForschungen I -III Forschungen in Salona I Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institute
Gallia Gallia Fouilles et monuments archeacuteologiques en France metropolitaine
Habis Habis Universidad de Sevilla Arqueologiacutea filologiacutea claacutesica
Historia Historia Zeitschrift fuumlr Alte Geschichte
HistriaAnt Histria antiqua Casopis Međunarodnog Istraživačkog Centra za Arheologiju Journal of theInternational Research Centre for Archeology
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Iliria Iliria Revisteuml arkeologjike
IMT Paul Gauckler Inventaire des mosaiumlques de la Gaule et de lrsquoAfrique tome II AfriqueProconsulaire (Tunisie) Paris 1910 Suppleacutement Alfred Merlin Paris 1915
IstForsch Istanbuler Forschungen
IstMitt Istanbuler Mitteilungen
IvE Inschriften griechischer Staumldte aus Kleinasien
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JAT Journal of Ancient Topography - Rivista di topografia antica
JbAC Jahrbuch fuumlr Antike und Christentum
JbOumlByz Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JdI Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts
JHS The Journal of Hellenic Studies
JMR Journal of Mosaic Research
JOumlAI Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in WienJOumlB Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
JRS The Journal of Roman Studies
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
Klio Klio Beitraumlge zur alten Geschichte
Kokalos Kώκαλος Studi pubblicati dallacuteIstituto di storia antica dellacuteUniversitagrave di Palermo
KST Kazı Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxxii
LA Liber Annuus Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Jeacuterusalem
Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
Le Deacutecor II C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J-P DARMON S GOZLAN M-P RAYNAUDLe deacutecor geacuteomeacutetrique de la Mosaiumlque Romaine II Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif desdeacutecors centreacutes Paris 2002
LIMC Lexikon iconographicum mythologiae classicaeLLAuml Lexikon der AumlgyptologieLRAC Reallexikon fuumlr Antike und Christentum
LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Mainake Mainake Estudios de arqueologiacutea Malaguentildea
MEFR Melanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome
MEFRA Meacutelanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome Antiquiteacute
MEFRM Meacutelanges de lrsquoEacutecole Franccedilaise de Rome Moyen Age
MitChrA Mitteilungen zur christlichen Archaumlologie
MKKS Muumlze Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu
MM Madrider Mitteilungen
Museacuteon Le Museacuteon Revue drsquoeacutetudes orientales
OumlJh Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in Wien
OpArch Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom Opuscula archaeologica
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Peristil Peristil Zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti
PriloziZagreb Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu
QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine
RA Revue archeacuteologique
RACr Rivista di archeologia cristiana
RB Revue biblique
RBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen Kunst Begruumlndet von K Wessel und M Restle Herausgege-Herausgege-ben von M Restle (Stuttgart)
RCHM Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
RHVaud Revue historique vaudoise
StudMisc Peter Johnson - Roger Ling - David J Smith (ed) Fifth International Colloquium on AncientMosaics held at Bath England on September 5 ndash 12 Ann Arbor Michigan 1994 et 1995(Actes du Ve colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique) (JRA SupplementarySeries 9) (2 vol)
TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
Traditio Traditio Studies in Ancient and Medieval History Thought and Religion
TuumlrkAD Tuumlrk Arkeoloji Dergisi
WO Die Welt des Orients
ZDPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaumlstina-Vereins
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e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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Bilimsel Komite Scientific CommitteeProf Dr Mustafa ŞahinProf Dr Henri Lavagne
Prof Dr Catherine BalmelleProf Dr David ParrishProf Dr Werner Jobst
Prof Dr Michael Fuchs
Prof Dr Anne-Marie Guimier-SorbetsProf Dr Demetrios MichaelideProf Dr Giordana Trovabene
Prof Dr Janine Balty Prof Dr Federico Guidobaldi
Prof Dr Guadalupe Lopez MonteagudoProf Dr Asher OvadiahDoccedil Dr Guumlrcan PolatDoccedil Dr İ Hakan Mert
Dr Aiumlcha Ben-AbedDr Jean-Pierre Darmon
Dr Derya ŞahinDr Patricia Witts
Miguel Pessoa
Lokal Organizasyon Komitesi Local Organizing CommitteeProf Dr Zeren Tanındı
Prof Dr Selccediluk KırlıProf Dr İsmail Naci Canguumll
Ass Prof Hakan MertAss Prof Guumlrcan Polat
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İCcedilİNDEKİLER TABLE OF CONTENTS
Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xiii
Kısaltmalar Abreviations xix
Giriş xxiii
Foreword xxv
Komait Abdallah
Mosaiumlque drsquoHeacuteraclegraves deacutecouverte agrave Homs (Syrie centrale) 1
Maria Andaloro ndash Paola Pogliani
e 6 th Century Mosaic Floor of the Church of Kuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) A Model for an Integrated Analysis between Knowledge Conservation and Documentation 15
Ayşe Aydın
Das Fussbodenmosaik des Annexbaus in der Kuppelkirche in Kaunos e Floor Mosaics at the Annex Building of the Domed Church 31
Paola Baldassarri
Archaeological Excavations at Palazzo Valentini A Residential Area in the Shade of the Trajanrsquos Forum 43
Catherine Balmelle ndash Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader ndash Fathi Bejaoui La Maison des Deux Lions agrave Carthage 69
Claudia Barsanti
e Marble Floor of St John Studius in Constantinople A Neglected Masterpiece 87
Aiumlcha Ben Abed amp Roger Hanoune
Les pavements mosaiumlqueacutes des ermes agrave lrsquooctagone de Pupput (Hammamet Tunisie) 99
Jesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
e Social Construction of Gender Identities through the Ancient Mosaics from Antioch 107
Veacuteronique Blanc-Bijon ndash Fabienne Olmer avec la collaboration de Marie-Laure Courboulegraves
Une nouvelle mosaiumlque sur lrsquo oppidum de lrsquoErmitage agrave Alegraves (Gard France) 121
Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Mythology in Mosaics of Zeugma and Hispania Similarities and Differences 137
Roberto Bugini ndash Luisa Folli ndash Brunella Portulano ndash Elisabetta Roffia
e Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics A Case-Study in Northern Italy 163
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Marija Buzov
e Early Christian Mosaics with Inscription in Croatia 171
Javier Cabrero Piquero
A New Hispano-Roman Mosaic with the Story of Meleager 193
Maria Teresa Caetano ndash Caacutetia Mouratildeo A ldquoPortraitrdquo of Book XII of the AEligneid Mosaic from the laquo House of the Medusa raquo (Alter do Chatildeo Portugal) 205
Birol Can
Technical Stylistic Iconographic Evaluation and Dating of Mosaics of Altıntepe Church 225
Margherita Carucci
An Example of Visual Humour on a Romano-African Mosaic Putting Images in their Context 235
John R Clarke ndash Lea Cline
New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa A Torre Annunziata - Italy - 50 BC ndash AD 79 247
Neil Cookson
Orpheus Some Metaphors in Mosaic 259
Violeta Cvetkovska Ocokoljic ndash Jugoslav Ocokoljic
Parallel Research Fresco Painting of Chora and Sopocani 269
Jean-Pierre Darmon
Une eacutenigme enfin reacutesolue la fausse Iphigeacutenie drsquoAntioche eacutetait une Alceste 283
Carlos Tavares da Silva ndash Joaquina Soares ndash Liciacutenia Nunes Correia Wrench
Les premiegraveres mosaiumlques romaines deacutecouvertes agrave Caetobriga (Setuacutebal Portugal) 295
Anne-Sophie Decriaud
Les Saisons personnifieacutees sur les mosaiumlques romaines tardives (IV e
-VI e
siegravecles) de la partie orientaledu Bassin meacutediterraneacuteen (Turquie Syrie Liban Israeumll Jordanie) 309
Sophie Delbarre-Baumlrtschi
Les mosaiumlques romaines en Suisse 333
Lorella Maria de Matteis
e Mosaics of the Early Christian Basilicas on the Island of Kos 339
Maria de Jesus Duran Kremer
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romaine de Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de lrsquoAlgarve 353
Mercedes Duraacuten Penedo Mosaicos con la iconografiacutea de etis madre de Aquiles en Turquiacutea y en otros enclaves del Imperio 363
Andreas M Foulias
e Basilica of Agioi Saranta Kırklar Tekke in Cyprus and its Mosaics 381
Zaraza Friedman
Ships Depicted in the Madaba Map Mosaic 391
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Michel E Fuchs ndash Sophie Delbarre-Baumlrtschi
Derecik Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacuteglise pour deux mosaiumlques 405
Alessandra Guiglia Guidobaldi
e Marble Floor Decoration in Constantinople Prolegomena to a Corpus 413
Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets Les thegravemes dionysiaques sur les mosaiumlques helleacutenistiques drsquoAsie Mineure (Turquie) 437
Bertrand Houix ndash Veacuteronique Blanc-Bijon ndash Jean-Yves Breuil ndash Jean-Pierre Darmon ndashPascale Linant de Bellefonds
Mosaiumlques agrave thegravemes mythologiques reacutecemment deacutecouvertes sous lrsquoavenue Jean-Jaures agrave Nimes (France) 447
Işıl Rabia Işıklıkaya-Laubscher
Mosaics in Perge Preliminary Report on the Mosaics of the Macellum 467
Werner Jobst
Das Mosaikpaviment der fruumlhchristlichen Basilika von GoumlnenGerme in Mysien (Hellespont) 483
Lyudmila G KhrushkovaOpus Sectile Pavements in the Crimea and on the East Coast of the Black Sea 505
Ruth Kolarik
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implications for other Regions 519
Emine Koumlker
Antik Ccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At İkonografisi 531
Maja Kramer
Signs of Progression in the Personifications of the Seasons in Roman Mosaics e Artistic Approach Procedures and Tools Used by the Craftsmen to Relate the Viewer to the Experience of the Passing of Time 547
Delphine Lauritzen
Mosaiumlques drsquoOkeacuteanos et de alassa agrave Zurich Une proposition de mise en perspective 555
Filomena Limatildeo
e Vasersquos Representation (Cantharus Crater) on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Significant Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late Antiquity 565
Virgiacutelio Lopes
Late Antiquity in Portugal e Mosaics 585
Guadalupe Loacutepez Monteagudo
Opora through East and West Abundance Allegories in Mosaics of Spain and Turkey 597
Irene Mantildeas Romero
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of Italica Firmament Images 615
Luz Neira
e Sea iasos of Nereids and Tritons in the Roman Mosaics of Turkey 631
Marek Titien Olszewski
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 655
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Marek Titien Olszewski ndash Piotr Zakrzewski
e Decoration of the Dining Rooms at Ptolemais in Cyrenaica (Libya) in the Light of the Last Researches 665
Elda Omari
e History and Development of Mosaics in Albania (4th 3rd Century BC ndash 6 th Century AD) 675
Asher OvadiahConservative Approaches in the Ancient Synagogue Mosaic Pavements in Israele Cases of lsquoEin Gedi and SepphorisZippori 693
Ali Kazım Oumlz
e Mosaics of Metropolis in Ionia 701
Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
Building with Mosaics of Olympos Mosaics of Late Ancient Era ndash Early Byzantine Period 709
David Parrish - Birte Poulsen
Late Antique Tombs with Mosaics in Ancient Halikarnassos 721
Bernard ParzyszUne grande famille de deacutecors geacuteomeacutetriques 735
Silvia Pedone
e Marble Omphalos of Saint Sophia in Constantinople An Analysis of an Opus Sectile Pavement of Middle Byzantine Age 749
Claudia Pelosi ndash Ulderico Santamaria
e 6 th Century AD Floor Mosaic of the Church of Kuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Characterization of the Constitutive Materials Finding of the Quarries of Origin 769
Miguel Pessoa
Stibadium with a Mosaic in the Roman Villa of Rabaccedilal Penela Portugal 779Vania Popova ndash Alexander Lirsch
Corpus of Late Antique and Early Christian Mosaics in Bulgaria 793
Manuel Romero ndash Sebastiaacuten Vargas
Mosaic Workshop Located in the Villa de la Estacioacuten de Antequera Maacutelaga (Espantildea) 823
Idit Sagiv-Hayik
e Hellenistic Mosaic of Dor ndash Figural Image or eatrical Mask 829
Barış Salman
Reflection of Some Cults and Rituels on Mosaics and Reliefs in Osroene and Other Syrian Cultures 843
M Pilar San Nicolaacutes Pedraz
On a Mosaic from Maacutelaga with the Depiction of ZeusJupiter and Antiope 853
Derya Şahin
Myndos Mosaics 865
Y Selccediluk Şener
Mozaiklerin Korunmasında Temel Kriterler 873
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Alessandro Taddei
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of Saint Eirene at Constantinople 883
Giordana Trovabene
Knots of Lines like Weaves of reads A Corpus of Early Medieval Mosaics in ldquoVenetordquo 897
Fuumlsun Tuumlleke Bejewelled Lady of Sinope 921
Julia Valeva
Une riche domus de Stara Zagora ( Augusta Trajana-Beroe ) Publication preacuteliminaire 927
Zeev Weiss
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between East and West 941
Patricia Witts
Mosaic Studies and Souvenirs 953
Şehriguumll Yeşil-Erdek
Display of Ancient Mosaics Tourism as an Influential Factor Steering the Decision Making Process 963
Diklah Zohar
Application Procedures of Mosaics and the Division of Production Work Examples from Madaba Beth Alpha and Antioch 969
Hande Koumlkten
A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of Turkey Condition Survey of Mosaics 975
Hande Koumlkten
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as a Management Activity of Archaeological Sites 983
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BİLİMSEL PROGRAM SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
16 October 2009 Fr983145day
0900 - 1040 Open983145ng Ceremony OumlRDEKLİ COMPLEX
HALL A HALL B
Panel 1Moderator Dav983145d Parr983145sh
Panel 2Moderator Werner Jobst
1040 - 1100
La Fausse Iph983145geacuten983145e Dant983145oche Une Eacuten983145gme Enf983145n
ReacutesolueJean - P983145erre Darmon
Les Personn983145f983145cat983145ons Des Sa983145sons Sur Les MosaiumlquesTard983145ves (983145ve-v983145e S983145egravecles) De La Part983145e Or983145entale Du
Bass983145n Meacuted983145terraneacuteen (Turqu983145e Syr983145e Jordan983145ePalest983145ne)Anne-Soph983145e Deacutecr983145aud
1100 - 1120 Intrecc983145 d983145 l983145nee come trame d983145 f983145l983145 Per un corpus de983145mosa983145c983145 altomed983145eval983145 del VenetoG983145ordana Trovabene
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 3Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 4Moderator Anne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
1215 - 1235 Reflect983145on of Cults and R983145tuels on Mosa983145cs andRel983145efs 983145n Osroene and Other Syr983145an CulturesBarış Salman
Aspects Of Euerget983145sm And Soc983145o Econom983145c ForcesIn Byzant983145ne And Early Islam983145c Mosa983145cs In JordanBasema Hamarneh
1235 - 1255Les Pavements des Thermes Agraversquo octogone De PupputAiumlcha Ben Abed - Roger Hanoune
Mosa983145c Decorat983145on 983145n C983145v983145c Context Late ant983145quepavements from PergeIşıl R Işıklıkaya
1255 - 1315
Derec983145k Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacutegl983145se pour deuxmosaiumlquesM983145chel E FuchsSoph983145e Delbarre-Baumlrtsch983145
Bursa Moza983145kler983145Recep Okccedilu
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
HALL A HALL B
Panel 5Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 6Moderator Aiumlcha Ben Abed
1500 - 1520The VI th century floor mosa983145c of the church ofKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Mar983145a Andaloro - Paola Pogl983145an983145
Erz983145ncan - Altıntepe K983145l983145se Moza983145kler983145B983145rol Can
1520 - 1540The Bas983145l983145ca Of Ag983145o983145 Sarantak983145rklar Tekke In CyprusAnd Its Mosa983145csAndreas Foul983145as
D983145onysos et la mer les mosaiumlques agrave lrsquoeacutepoquehelleacuten983145st983145que et au deacutebut de lrsquoeacutepoque 983145mpeacuter983145aleAnne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexiv
1540 - 1600Early Byzant983145ne Mosa983145cs W983145th Person983145f983145cat983145ons FromTurkey And Syr983145aChr983145st983145ne Kondoleon
El Mosa983145co Pav983145mental De La Basiacutel983145ca De L983145lla Del Re983145G983145sela R983145poll Catal983145na MasM983145guel Aacutengel Cau
1600 - 1620Corpus Of Late Ant983145que And Early Chr983145st983145an Mosa983145csIn Bulgar983145aAlexander L983145rsch
Mosa983145cs In Ant983145och A Morpholog983145cal Observat983145onD983145klah Zohar
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630 - 1640 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 7Moderator Mar983145a Andaloro
Panel 8Moderator B983145rol Can
1640 - 1700Pompe983145opol983145s ( Taşkoumlpruuml )Lu983145sa Musso
La Produz983145one Pav983145mentale Pugl983145ese Tra Tardoant983145coE Med983145oevo Evoluz983145one Tecn983145ca E St983145l983145st983145caCarr983145no Rachele
1700 - 1720La ma983145son des deux l983145ons agrave CarthageAiumlcha Ben-AbedBen Khader - Cather983145ne Balmelle
Putt983145ng In Context Two Mosa983145cs Of Okeanos AndThalassaDelph983145ne Renaut
1720 - 1740
1740 - 1800 DISCUSSION
1900 - 2200 DINNER Mevlev983145 Presentat983145on
17 October 2009 Saturday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 9Moderator Luisa Musso
Panel 10Moderator Asuman Baldıran
0900 - 0920New Mosaics at the Colonia Patricia CordubaFrancesc Josep de Rueda Roigeacute
Parallel Research Fresco Painting Of Chora AndSopocani Violeta C OcokoljicJugoslav Ocokoljic
0920 - 0940Sailing in the Dead Sea - Madaba Map MosaicZaraza Friedman
Mosaique funeacuteraire drsquoOrpheacutee de Jerusalem auMuseacutee Archeacuteologique drsquoIstanbul CompleacutementdrsquoenquecircteMarek Titien Olszewski
0940 - 1000Literary References on Three Roman MosaicPanelsSarah E Cox
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implicationsfor Other RegionsRuth Kolarik
1000 - 1020I Mosaici delle Basiliche Paleocristianedellrsquoisola di CosLorella Maria De Matteis
The Marble Floor Decoration in ConstantinopleProlegomen to a Corpus Alessandra Guiglia
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 11Moderator Derya Şahin
Panel 12Moderator Zaraza Friedman
1040 - 1100
Conservative Approaches In The SynagogueMosaic Pavements In Israel The Cases Of lsquoeinGedi And Sepphoris Zippori Asher Ovadiah
Theatre and Art Mosaics as Evidence forDramatic PerformanceKatherine Dunbabin
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xv
1100 - 1020Late Antique Tombs With Mosaics In AncientHalikarnassosDavid Parrish - Birte Poulsen
A Propos Des Opus Sectile Deacutecouverts Dans LaMaison Du Cours Pourtoules (orange-vaucluse)Eric Morvillez
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 13Moderator Birte Poulsen
Panel 14Moderator Asher Ovadiah
1215 - 1235The Mosaic Pavement of the Early ChristianBasilica At GoumlnenGerme In Mysia laquoHellespontraquoWerner Jobst
Oriental motifs and patterns in the mosaic art ofTarragonaRosario Navarro
1235 - 1255The Vith Century Floor Mosaic Of The Church OfKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) Ulderico Santamaria - Claudia Pelosi
The Marble Omphalos Of The St Sophia OfConstantinople Analysis Of An Opus SectilePavement Of The Middle Byzantine PeriodSilvia Pedone
1255 - 1315Torba Manastır Kompleksi Mozaikleri M Aykut Oumlzet
The Marble Floor Of St John Studius InConstantinople A Forgotten MasterpieceClaudia Barsanti
1315 - 1330Sardisrsquoteki Geccedil Roma-Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaikleriEmine Tok
Mylasa Mozaikleri Abuzer Kızıl
1330 - 1345 DISCUSSION
1400 - 2200 DERECİK ( BUumlYUumlKORHAN ) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
18 October 2009 Sunday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 15Moderator Hakan Mert
Panel 16Moderator Michel E Fuchs
0900 - 0920Basic Criteria for the Preservation of Mosaics AGuide for Archaeologists ISelccediluk Şener
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between Eastand WestZeev Weiss
0920 - 0940
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as aManagement Activity of Archaeological Sites AGuide for Archaeologists IIHande Koumlkten
Une Grande Famille de Deacutecors GeacuteomeacutetriquesBernard Parzysz
0940 - 1000
Display of Ancient Mosaics İn Situ Tourism as anInuential Factor Steering the Decision MakingProcessŞehriguumll Yeşil Erdek
Mosaicos Mitoloacutegicos de Zeugma Y de Hispania Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
1000 - 1020 A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of TurkeyCondition Survey of MosaicsHande Koumlkten
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of SaintEirene at Constantinople Alessandro Taddei
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 2200 IZNIK (NICEA) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexvi
19 October 2009 Monday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 17Moderator Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Panel 18Moderator Veronika Scheibelreiter
0900 - 0920Signs of the Progression of Time in RomanMosaic ArtMaja Kramer
Une Nouvelle Mosaiumlque sur lrsquooppidum drsquoAlegraves(Gard France) Veacuteronique Blanc- BijonFabienne Olmer
0920 - 0940 Antikccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At Ikonograsi Emine Koumlker
The Latest Archaeological Discoveries about theMediana MosaicsGordana Jeremic
0940 - 1000New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa ATorre Annunziata ItalyJohn R Clarke - Lea Cline
Architekturdarstellungen auf roumlmischen MosaikenKleinasienHakan Mert
1000 - 1020Late Antiquity Mosaics in Portugal Virgilio Lopez
Orpheus Some Metaphors in MosaicNeil Cookson
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 19Moderator Selccediluk Şener
Panel 20Moderator Patricia Witts
1040 - 1100Opus Sectile Pavements From Western AsiaMinor Veronika Scheibelreiter
The First Roman Mosaics Discovered in CetobrigaCarlos Tavares da Silva - Joaquina Soares -Liciacutenia Wrench
1100 - 1020
Indagini Archeologiche A Palazzo ValentiniunQuartiere Residenziale Ai Margini Del ForoTraianoPaola Baldassarri
Olympos Mozaikli YapıGeccedil Antik Ccedilağ - Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaiklerinin Teknik ve Stil Değerlendirmesi Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 21Moderator Hande Koumlkten
Panel 22Moderator Liciacutenia Wrench
1215 - 1235Mosaic Studies And Souvenirs Leaving no StoneUnturnedPatricia Witts
The Mosaic of Leukippe and Theonoe in theKointos Villa in ZeugmaPaolo Vitellozzi
1235 - 1255Notice Mosaic of laquothe House of Medusaraquo(portugal Alter do Chatildeo)Maria Teresa Caetano
Metropolis Mozaikleri Ali Kazım Oumlz
1255 - 1315 Zeugma Danae Evinin MozaikleriMehmet Oumlnal
Mosaicos Con la Iconograa de Thethismadre
de Aquiles en Turquia Y en Otros Enclaves delImperio RomanoMercedes Duran Penedo
1315 - 1330 LUNCH
1330 - 1530 AIEMA MEETING
DISENGAGED DINNER
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xvii
20 October 2009 Tuesday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 23Moderator Mehmet Onal
Panel 24Moderator Paolo Vitellozzi
0900 - 0920De Que Hablamos Cuando Hablamos de TalleresMusivos Tardios en HispaniaMercedes Torres Carro
The Bejewelled Lady of SinopeFuumlsun Tuumllek
0920 - 0940 A new reading of the Dor mosaicIdit Sagiv-Hayik
Milli Azerbaycan Tarihi Muumlzesinde Hristyan AbideleriFariz Halilli
0940 - 1000Konya Tatkoumly ve Alibeykoumly Houmlyuumlğuuml Mozaikleri Asuman Baldıran- Osman Doğanay
Salamis Kenti Opus Sectile Taban Doumlşemeleri Aytaccedil Coşkun
1000 - 1020Il Mosaico di Metiochos E Parthenope da ZeugmaLucia Romizzi - Andrea Carini
Non-Destructive Investigations on Mosaic of theChurch of the Three HierarchsM Geba - N Vornicu - C Bibire
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 25Moderator Işıl R Işıklıkaya
Panel 26Moderator Luz Neira
1040 - 1100
Late Antique Private Luxury The Mosaic FloorsOf The Urban Mansion Of Sagalassos (ağlasunBurdur)Inge Uytterhoeven - Hande Koumlkten - MarcWaelkens - Markku Corremans
The Role of Late Antique Art in Early ChristianWorship A Reconsideration of the Iconographyof The lsquostarry Skyrsquo in Mosaics of the Late 5th -Early 6th C AdEllen Swift - Anne Alwis
1100 - 1020The Early Christian Mosaics with the Inscriptionsin CroatiaMarija Buzov
La Construccioacuten de las identidades de geacutenero atraveacutes de los mosaicos antioquenosJesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 27Moderator Marija Buzov
Panel 28Moderator Maja Kramer
1215 - 1235Kaunos Kubbeli Kilise Ek Yapısırsquondaki TabanMozaiği Ayşe Aydın
El Thiasos Marino en los Mosaicos Romanos deTurquiacuteaLuz Neira
1235 - 1255
The Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics Bugini RobertoFolli Luisa Portulano BrunellaRofa Elisabetta
A stibadium with a mosaic in the Roman Villa ofRabaccedilal Penela PortugalMiguel Pessoa
1255 - 1315
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romainede Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de AlgarveMaria De Jesus Duran Kremer
Mosaiumlques mythologiques de Zeugma Originaliteacuteet Liens iconographiques avec la peinturepompeacuteienne et les mosaiumlques italiques etafricains du I-II siegravecleLucia Romizzi
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexviii
HALL A HALL B
Panel 29Moderator Maria Kremer
Panel 30Moderator Miguel Pessoa
1500 - 1520
The Vases Representation (cantharus Crater)on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Signicant
Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late AntiquityFilomena Limatildeo
The Rape of Hylas and the Spectacles of the Amphitheatre on a Floor Mosaic from Volubilis
(Morocco)Margherita Carucci
1520 - 1540The Herakles mosaic discovered in Homs (Syria)Komait Abdallah
Myndos MosaicsDerya Şahin
1540 - 1600Les Mosaiumlques Agrave Thegraveme MythologiqueReacutecemment Deacutecouvertes Agrave NicircmesJean-yves Breuil
A Late Antique Residence in Augusta TraianaProvince of ThraceJulia Valeva
1600 - 1620Floor mosaics from a Roman villa in NinJagoda Meder
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of ItalicaFirmament ImagesIrene Mantildeas Romero
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630FREE TIME- BURSA -
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KISALTMALAR ABBREVIATIONS
AA Archaeologischer Anzeiger
Abulg Archaeologia Bulgarica
Acontia Acontia Revista de arqueologiacutea
ActaInstRomFin Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae
AEspA Archivo espantildeol de arqueologiacutea
AISCOM LrsquoAssociazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico
AJA American Journal of Archaelology
AJug Archaeologia JugoslavicaAM Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts Athenische Abteilung
AMethTh Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
AMS Asia Minor Studien
AnatoliaA Anatolia Antiqua
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der roumlmischen Welt
AnSt Anatolian Studies
AntAfr Antiquiteacutes africaines
AntigCr Antiguumledad y Cristianismo Monografiacuteas histoacutericas sobre la antiguumledad tardiacutea
AntK Antike Kunst
AntTard Antiquiteacute tardive Revue internationale drsquohistoire et drsquoarcheacuteologie
APregl Arheološki pregled Arheološko društvo JugoslavijeAquilNost Aquileia nostra Bollettino dellrsquoAssociazione nazionale per Aquileia
ArchCl Archeologia classica
Archeologia Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Published by the Society ofAntiquaries of London
ArtB The Art Bulletin
ASSAPH Assaph Studies in Art History
AST Araştırma Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
Atiqot Atiqot Journal of the Israel Department of Antiquities
AttiMemIstria Atti e memorie della Societagrave istriana di archeologia e storia patria
AW Antike Welt Zeitschrift fuumlr Archaumlologie und Kulturgeschichte
BAA Bulletin drsquoarcheologie algerienneBABesch Bulletin antieke beschaving Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology
BAcHist Boletiacuten de la Real academia de la historia
Baetica Baetica Estudios de arte geografiacutea e historia
BAR British Archaeological Reports British Series
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BCH Bulletin de correspondance helleacutenique
BCom Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma
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BCTH Bulletin archeacuteologique du Comiteacute des travaux historiques et scientifiques Paris
BdA Bollettino drsquoarte
BEFAR Bibliothegraveque des Ecoles franccedilaises drsquoAthegravenes et de Rome
Belleten Belleten Tuumlrk Tarih Kurumu
BJb Bonner Jahrbuumlcher des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn
BMQ The British Museum Quarterly BMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
Boreas Boreas Muumlnstersche Beitraumlge zur Archaumlologie
BSA The British school of Archaeology at Athens
BSEAA Boletin del Seminario de estudios de arte y arqueologia
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
BT Babylonian Talmud
BullAIEMA Bulletin de lrsquoAssociation internationale pour lrsquoetude de la mosaique antique
BullMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
CArch Cahiers archeacuteologiques
CEDAC CEDAC Bulletin Centre drsquoeacutetudes et de documentation archeacuteologique de la conservation deCartage
CEFR Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome
Chiron Chiron Mitteilungen der Kommission fuumlr Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des DeutschenArchaumlologischen Instituts
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
ClJ The Classical Journal
CMG Convegni di studi sulla Magna Grecia
CMGR I La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane I H STERN - G Ch PICARD (eds) Paris 1965 (Actes du Iercolloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Paris 30 aoucirct-3 septembre 1963)
CMGR II La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane II H STERN - M LE GAY (eds) Paris 1975 (Actes du IIe
colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Vienne-Isegravere 30 aoucirct-4septembre 1971)
CMGR III III Colloquio internazionale sul mosaico antico R FARIOLI CAMPANATI (eacuted) Ravenna1983 (Actes du IIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Ravenna6-10 septembre 1980)
CMGR IV La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane IV J -P DARMON - A REBOURG (eds) Paris 1994 (Actesdu IVe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique TregravevesTrier 8-14 aoucirct1984)
CMGR V Fifth Interneational Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics 1 - 2 P Johnson R Ling D J Smith(eds) Ann Arbor M1 1994 and 1995 (Actes du V e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de lamosaiumlque antique Bath 5-12 septembre 1987) (JRA supp9)
CMGR VI VI Col loquio internacional s obre mosaico ant iquo Palenc ia-Meacuterida Octubre 199 0D Fernandez GALIANO (ed) Guadalajara 1994 (Actes du VIe colloque international pour
lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Palencia-Meacuterida octobre 1990)CMGR VII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VII M ENNAIFER - A REBOURG (eds) Tunis 1999 (Actes
du VIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Tunis 3-7 octobre 1994)
CMGR VIII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VIII D PAUNNIER - Chr SCHMIDT (eds) Lausanne 2001(Actes du VIIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevaleLausanne 6-11 octobre 1997) Cahiers drsquoArcheacuteologie Romande 85-86
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CMGR IX La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine IX Heacutelegravene MORLIER (eacuted) Rome 2005 (Actes du IXe colloqueinternational pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome Eacutecole franccedilaisePalazzo Altemps 5 ndash 10 novembre 2001) (Coll EFR 352) (2 vol)
CMGR X La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine X (in Publised)
CMGR XI XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve AntikDoumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi Mozaiklerin Başlan-gıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi Stil ve Teknik uumlzerine Sorular 11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS Mosaics of Turkey andParallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World Questions ofIconography Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late ByzantineEra Mustafa ŞAHİN (Ed) Bursa 2009 (İstanbul 2011)
DNP Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopaumldie der Antike
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Empuacuteries Empuacuteries Revista de prehistograveria arqueologia i etnologia
EPRO Etudes preacuteliminaires aux religions orientales dans lrsquoempire romain
ExcIsr Excavations and Surveys in Israel
Expedition Expedition The Magazine of Archaeology Anthropology
FiE Forschungen in EphesosForschungen I -III Forschungen in Salona I Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institute
Gallia Gallia Fouilles et monuments archeacuteologiques en France metropolitaine
Habis Habis Universidad de Sevilla Arqueologiacutea filologiacutea claacutesica
Historia Historia Zeitschrift fuumlr Alte Geschichte
HistriaAnt Histria antiqua Casopis Međunarodnog Istraživačkog Centra za Arheologiju Journal of theInternational Research Centre for Archeology
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Iliria Iliria Revisteuml arkeologjike
IMT Paul Gauckler Inventaire des mosaiumlques de la Gaule et de lrsquoAfrique tome II AfriqueProconsulaire (Tunisie) Paris 1910 Suppleacutement Alfred Merlin Paris 1915
IstForsch Istanbuler Forschungen
IstMitt Istanbuler Mitteilungen
IvE Inschriften griechischer Staumldte aus Kleinasien
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JAT Journal of Ancient Topography - Rivista di topografia antica
JbAC Jahrbuch fuumlr Antike und Christentum
JbOumlByz Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JdI Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts
JHS The Journal of Hellenic Studies
JMR Journal of Mosaic Research
JOumlAI Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in WienJOumlB Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
JRS The Journal of Roman Studies
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
Klio Klio Beitraumlge zur alten Geschichte
Kokalos Kώκαλος Studi pubblicati dallacuteIstituto di storia antica dellacuteUniversitagrave di Palermo
KST Kazı Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
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LA Liber Annuus Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Jeacuterusalem
Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
Le Deacutecor II C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J-P DARMON S GOZLAN M-P RAYNAUDLe deacutecor geacuteomeacutetrique de la Mosaiumlque Romaine II Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif desdeacutecors centreacutes Paris 2002
LIMC Lexikon iconographicum mythologiae classicaeLLAuml Lexikon der AumlgyptologieLRAC Reallexikon fuumlr Antike und Christentum
LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Mainake Mainake Estudios de arqueologiacutea Malaguentildea
MEFR Melanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome
MEFRA Meacutelanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome Antiquiteacute
MEFRM Meacutelanges de lrsquoEacutecole Franccedilaise de Rome Moyen Age
MitChrA Mitteilungen zur christlichen Archaumlologie
MKKS Muumlze Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu
MM Madrider Mitteilungen
Museacuteon Le Museacuteon Revue drsquoeacutetudes orientales
OumlJh Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in Wien
OpArch Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom Opuscula archaeologica
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Peristil Peristil Zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti
PriloziZagreb Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu
QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine
RA Revue archeacuteologique
RACr Rivista di archeologia cristiana
RB Revue biblique
RBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen Kunst Begruumlndet von K Wessel und M Restle Herausgege-Herausgege-ben von M Restle (Stuttgart)
RCHM Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
RHVaud Revue historique vaudoise
StudMisc Peter Johnson - Roger Ling - David J Smith (ed) Fifth International Colloquium on AncientMosaics held at Bath England on September 5 ndash 12 Ann Arbor Michigan 1994 et 1995(Actes du Ve colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique) (JRA SupplementarySeries 9) (2 vol)
TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
Traditio Traditio Studies in Ancient and Medieval History Thought and Religion
TuumlrkAD Tuumlrk Arkeoloji Dergisi
WO Die Welt des Orients
ZDPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaumlstina-Vereins
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Marek Titien OLSZEWSKI
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 659
1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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Marek Titien Olszewski662
was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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İCcedilİNDEKİLER TABLE OF CONTENTS
Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xiii
Kısaltmalar Abreviations xix
Giriş xxiii
Foreword xxv
Komait Abdallah
Mosaiumlque drsquoHeacuteraclegraves deacutecouverte agrave Homs (Syrie centrale) 1
Maria Andaloro ndash Paola Pogliani
e 6 th Century Mosaic Floor of the Church of Kuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) A Model for an Integrated Analysis between Knowledge Conservation and Documentation 15
Ayşe Aydın
Das Fussbodenmosaik des Annexbaus in der Kuppelkirche in Kaunos e Floor Mosaics at the Annex Building of the Domed Church 31
Paola Baldassarri
Archaeological Excavations at Palazzo Valentini A Residential Area in the Shade of the Trajanrsquos Forum 43
Catherine Balmelle ndash Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader ndash Fathi Bejaoui La Maison des Deux Lions agrave Carthage 69
Claudia Barsanti
e Marble Floor of St John Studius in Constantinople A Neglected Masterpiece 87
Aiumlcha Ben Abed amp Roger Hanoune
Les pavements mosaiumlqueacutes des ermes agrave lrsquooctagone de Pupput (Hammamet Tunisie) 99
Jesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
e Social Construction of Gender Identities through the Ancient Mosaics from Antioch 107
Veacuteronique Blanc-Bijon ndash Fabienne Olmer avec la collaboration de Marie-Laure Courboulegraves
Une nouvelle mosaiumlque sur lrsquo oppidum de lrsquoErmitage agrave Alegraves (Gard France) 121
Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Mythology in Mosaics of Zeugma and Hispania Similarities and Differences 137
Roberto Bugini ndash Luisa Folli ndash Brunella Portulano ndash Elisabetta Roffia
e Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics A Case-Study in Northern Italy 163
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İccedilindekiler Table of Contents viii
Marija Buzov
e Early Christian Mosaics with Inscription in Croatia 171
Javier Cabrero Piquero
A New Hispano-Roman Mosaic with the Story of Meleager 193
Maria Teresa Caetano ndash Caacutetia Mouratildeo A ldquoPortraitrdquo of Book XII of the AEligneid Mosaic from the laquo House of the Medusa raquo (Alter do Chatildeo Portugal) 205
Birol Can
Technical Stylistic Iconographic Evaluation and Dating of Mosaics of Altıntepe Church 225
Margherita Carucci
An Example of Visual Humour on a Romano-African Mosaic Putting Images in their Context 235
John R Clarke ndash Lea Cline
New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa A Torre Annunziata - Italy - 50 BC ndash AD 79 247
Neil Cookson
Orpheus Some Metaphors in Mosaic 259
Violeta Cvetkovska Ocokoljic ndash Jugoslav Ocokoljic
Parallel Research Fresco Painting of Chora and Sopocani 269
Jean-Pierre Darmon
Une eacutenigme enfin reacutesolue la fausse Iphigeacutenie drsquoAntioche eacutetait une Alceste 283
Carlos Tavares da Silva ndash Joaquina Soares ndash Liciacutenia Nunes Correia Wrench
Les premiegraveres mosaiumlques romaines deacutecouvertes agrave Caetobriga (Setuacutebal Portugal) 295
Anne-Sophie Decriaud
Les Saisons personnifieacutees sur les mosaiumlques romaines tardives (IV e
-VI e
siegravecles) de la partie orientaledu Bassin meacutediterraneacuteen (Turquie Syrie Liban Israeumll Jordanie) 309
Sophie Delbarre-Baumlrtschi
Les mosaiumlques romaines en Suisse 333
Lorella Maria de Matteis
e Mosaics of the Early Christian Basilicas on the Island of Kos 339
Maria de Jesus Duran Kremer
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romaine de Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de lrsquoAlgarve 353
Mercedes Duraacuten Penedo Mosaicos con la iconografiacutea de etis madre de Aquiles en Turquiacutea y en otros enclaves del Imperio 363
Andreas M Foulias
e Basilica of Agioi Saranta Kırklar Tekke in Cyprus and its Mosaics 381
Zaraza Friedman
Ships Depicted in the Madaba Map Mosaic 391
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İccedilindekiler Table of Contents ix
Michel E Fuchs ndash Sophie Delbarre-Baumlrtschi
Derecik Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacuteglise pour deux mosaiumlques 405
Alessandra Guiglia Guidobaldi
e Marble Floor Decoration in Constantinople Prolegomena to a Corpus 413
Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets Les thegravemes dionysiaques sur les mosaiumlques helleacutenistiques drsquoAsie Mineure (Turquie) 437
Bertrand Houix ndash Veacuteronique Blanc-Bijon ndash Jean-Yves Breuil ndash Jean-Pierre Darmon ndashPascale Linant de Bellefonds
Mosaiumlques agrave thegravemes mythologiques reacutecemment deacutecouvertes sous lrsquoavenue Jean-Jaures agrave Nimes (France) 447
Işıl Rabia Işıklıkaya-Laubscher
Mosaics in Perge Preliminary Report on the Mosaics of the Macellum 467
Werner Jobst
Das Mosaikpaviment der fruumlhchristlichen Basilika von GoumlnenGerme in Mysien (Hellespont) 483
Lyudmila G KhrushkovaOpus Sectile Pavements in the Crimea and on the East Coast of the Black Sea 505
Ruth Kolarik
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implications for other Regions 519
Emine Koumlker
Antik Ccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At İkonografisi 531
Maja Kramer
Signs of Progression in the Personifications of the Seasons in Roman Mosaics e Artistic Approach Procedures and Tools Used by the Craftsmen to Relate the Viewer to the Experience of the Passing of Time 547
Delphine Lauritzen
Mosaiumlques drsquoOkeacuteanos et de alassa agrave Zurich Une proposition de mise en perspective 555
Filomena Limatildeo
e Vasersquos Representation (Cantharus Crater) on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Significant Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late Antiquity 565
Virgiacutelio Lopes
Late Antiquity in Portugal e Mosaics 585
Guadalupe Loacutepez Monteagudo
Opora through East and West Abundance Allegories in Mosaics of Spain and Turkey 597
Irene Mantildeas Romero
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of Italica Firmament Images 615
Luz Neira
e Sea iasos of Nereids and Tritons in the Roman Mosaics of Turkey 631
Marek Titien Olszewski
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 655
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İccedilindekiler Table of Contentsx
Marek Titien Olszewski ndash Piotr Zakrzewski
e Decoration of the Dining Rooms at Ptolemais in Cyrenaica (Libya) in the Light of the Last Researches 665
Elda Omari
e History and Development of Mosaics in Albania (4th 3rd Century BC ndash 6 th Century AD) 675
Asher OvadiahConservative Approaches in the Ancient Synagogue Mosaic Pavements in Israele Cases of lsquoEin Gedi and SepphorisZippori 693
Ali Kazım Oumlz
e Mosaics of Metropolis in Ionia 701
Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
Building with Mosaics of Olympos Mosaics of Late Ancient Era ndash Early Byzantine Period 709
David Parrish - Birte Poulsen
Late Antique Tombs with Mosaics in Ancient Halikarnassos 721
Bernard ParzyszUne grande famille de deacutecors geacuteomeacutetriques 735
Silvia Pedone
e Marble Omphalos of Saint Sophia in Constantinople An Analysis of an Opus Sectile Pavement of Middle Byzantine Age 749
Claudia Pelosi ndash Ulderico Santamaria
e 6 th Century AD Floor Mosaic of the Church of Kuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Characterization of the Constitutive Materials Finding of the Quarries of Origin 769
Miguel Pessoa
Stibadium with a Mosaic in the Roman Villa of Rabaccedilal Penela Portugal 779Vania Popova ndash Alexander Lirsch
Corpus of Late Antique and Early Christian Mosaics in Bulgaria 793
Manuel Romero ndash Sebastiaacuten Vargas
Mosaic Workshop Located in the Villa de la Estacioacuten de Antequera Maacutelaga (Espantildea) 823
Idit Sagiv-Hayik
e Hellenistic Mosaic of Dor ndash Figural Image or eatrical Mask 829
Barış Salman
Reflection of Some Cults and Rituels on Mosaics and Reliefs in Osroene and Other Syrian Cultures 843
M Pilar San Nicolaacutes Pedraz
On a Mosaic from Maacutelaga with the Depiction of ZeusJupiter and Antiope 853
Derya Şahin
Myndos Mosaics 865
Y Selccediluk Şener
Mozaiklerin Korunmasında Temel Kriterler 873
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İccedilindekiler Table of Contents xi
Alessandro Taddei
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of Saint Eirene at Constantinople 883
Giordana Trovabene
Knots of Lines like Weaves of reads A Corpus of Early Medieval Mosaics in ldquoVenetordquo 897
Fuumlsun Tuumlleke Bejewelled Lady of Sinope 921
Julia Valeva
Une riche domus de Stara Zagora ( Augusta Trajana-Beroe ) Publication preacuteliminaire 927
Zeev Weiss
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between East and West 941
Patricia Witts
Mosaic Studies and Souvenirs 953
Şehriguumll Yeşil-Erdek
Display of Ancient Mosaics Tourism as an Influential Factor Steering the Decision Making Process 963
Diklah Zohar
Application Procedures of Mosaics and the Division of Production Work Examples from Madaba Beth Alpha and Antioch 969
Hande Koumlkten
A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of Turkey Condition Survey of Mosaics 975
Hande Koumlkten
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as a Management Activity of Archaeological Sites 983
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BİLİMSEL PROGRAM SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
16 October 2009 Fr983145day
0900 - 1040 Open983145ng Ceremony OumlRDEKLİ COMPLEX
HALL A HALL B
Panel 1Moderator Dav983145d Parr983145sh
Panel 2Moderator Werner Jobst
1040 - 1100
La Fausse Iph983145geacuten983145e Dant983145oche Une Eacuten983145gme Enf983145n
ReacutesolueJean - P983145erre Darmon
Les Personn983145f983145cat983145ons Des Sa983145sons Sur Les MosaiumlquesTard983145ves (983145ve-v983145e S983145egravecles) De La Part983145e Or983145entale Du
Bass983145n Meacuted983145terraneacuteen (Turqu983145e Syr983145e Jordan983145ePalest983145ne)Anne-Soph983145e Deacutecr983145aud
1100 - 1120 Intrecc983145 d983145 l983145nee come trame d983145 f983145l983145 Per un corpus de983145mosa983145c983145 altomed983145eval983145 del VenetoG983145ordana Trovabene
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 3Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 4Moderator Anne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
1215 - 1235 Reflect983145on of Cults and R983145tuels on Mosa983145cs andRel983145efs 983145n Osroene and Other Syr983145an CulturesBarış Salman
Aspects Of Euerget983145sm And Soc983145o Econom983145c ForcesIn Byzant983145ne And Early Islam983145c Mosa983145cs In JordanBasema Hamarneh
1235 - 1255Les Pavements des Thermes Agraversquo octogone De PupputAiumlcha Ben Abed - Roger Hanoune
Mosa983145c Decorat983145on 983145n C983145v983145c Context Late ant983145quepavements from PergeIşıl R Işıklıkaya
1255 - 1315
Derec983145k Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacutegl983145se pour deuxmosaiumlquesM983145chel E FuchsSoph983145e Delbarre-Baumlrtsch983145
Bursa Moza983145kler983145Recep Okccedilu
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
HALL A HALL B
Panel 5Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 6Moderator Aiumlcha Ben Abed
1500 - 1520The VI th century floor mosa983145c of the church ofKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Mar983145a Andaloro - Paola Pogl983145an983145
Erz983145ncan - Altıntepe K983145l983145se Moza983145kler983145B983145rol Can
1520 - 1540The Bas983145l983145ca Of Ag983145o983145 Sarantak983145rklar Tekke In CyprusAnd Its Mosa983145csAndreas Foul983145as
D983145onysos et la mer les mosaiumlques agrave lrsquoeacutepoquehelleacuten983145st983145que et au deacutebut de lrsquoeacutepoque 983145mpeacuter983145aleAnne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
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1540 - 1600Early Byzant983145ne Mosa983145cs W983145th Person983145f983145cat983145ons FromTurkey And Syr983145aChr983145st983145ne Kondoleon
El Mosa983145co Pav983145mental De La Basiacutel983145ca De L983145lla Del Re983145G983145sela R983145poll Catal983145na MasM983145guel Aacutengel Cau
1600 - 1620Corpus Of Late Ant983145que And Early Chr983145st983145an Mosa983145csIn Bulgar983145aAlexander L983145rsch
Mosa983145cs In Ant983145och A Morpholog983145cal Observat983145onD983145klah Zohar
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630 - 1640 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 7Moderator Mar983145a Andaloro
Panel 8Moderator B983145rol Can
1640 - 1700Pompe983145opol983145s ( Taşkoumlpruuml )Lu983145sa Musso
La Produz983145one Pav983145mentale Pugl983145ese Tra Tardoant983145coE Med983145oevo Evoluz983145one Tecn983145ca E St983145l983145st983145caCarr983145no Rachele
1700 - 1720La ma983145son des deux l983145ons agrave CarthageAiumlcha Ben-AbedBen Khader - Cather983145ne Balmelle
Putt983145ng In Context Two Mosa983145cs Of Okeanos AndThalassaDelph983145ne Renaut
1720 - 1740
1740 - 1800 DISCUSSION
1900 - 2200 DINNER Mevlev983145 Presentat983145on
17 October 2009 Saturday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 9Moderator Luisa Musso
Panel 10Moderator Asuman Baldıran
0900 - 0920New Mosaics at the Colonia Patricia CordubaFrancesc Josep de Rueda Roigeacute
Parallel Research Fresco Painting Of Chora AndSopocani Violeta C OcokoljicJugoslav Ocokoljic
0920 - 0940Sailing in the Dead Sea - Madaba Map MosaicZaraza Friedman
Mosaique funeacuteraire drsquoOrpheacutee de Jerusalem auMuseacutee Archeacuteologique drsquoIstanbul CompleacutementdrsquoenquecircteMarek Titien Olszewski
0940 - 1000Literary References on Three Roman MosaicPanelsSarah E Cox
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implicationsfor Other RegionsRuth Kolarik
1000 - 1020I Mosaici delle Basiliche Paleocristianedellrsquoisola di CosLorella Maria De Matteis
The Marble Floor Decoration in ConstantinopleProlegomen to a Corpus Alessandra Guiglia
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 11Moderator Derya Şahin
Panel 12Moderator Zaraza Friedman
1040 - 1100
Conservative Approaches In The SynagogueMosaic Pavements In Israel The Cases Of lsquoeinGedi And Sepphoris Zippori Asher Ovadiah
Theatre and Art Mosaics as Evidence forDramatic PerformanceKatherine Dunbabin
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1100 - 1020Late Antique Tombs With Mosaics In AncientHalikarnassosDavid Parrish - Birte Poulsen
A Propos Des Opus Sectile Deacutecouverts Dans LaMaison Du Cours Pourtoules (orange-vaucluse)Eric Morvillez
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 13Moderator Birte Poulsen
Panel 14Moderator Asher Ovadiah
1215 - 1235The Mosaic Pavement of the Early ChristianBasilica At GoumlnenGerme In Mysia laquoHellespontraquoWerner Jobst
Oriental motifs and patterns in the mosaic art ofTarragonaRosario Navarro
1235 - 1255The Vith Century Floor Mosaic Of The Church OfKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) Ulderico Santamaria - Claudia Pelosi
The Marble Omphalos Of The St Sophia OfConstantinople Analysis Of An Opus SectilePavement Of The Middle Byzantine PeriodSilvia Pedone
1255 - 1315Torba Manastır Kompleksi Mozaikleri M Aykut Oumlzet
The Marble Floor Of St John Studius InConstantinople A Forgotten MasterpieceClaudia Barsanti
1315 - 1330Sardisrsquoteki Geccedil Roma-Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaikleriEmine Tok
Mylasa Mozaikleri Abuzer Kızıl
1330 - 1345 DISCUSSION
1400 - 2200 DERECİK ( BUumlYUumlKORHAN ) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
18 October 2009 Sunday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 15Moderator Hakan Mert
Panel 16Moderator Michel E Fuchs
0900 - 0920Basic Criteria for the Preservation of Mosaics AGuide for Archaeologists ISelccediluk Şener
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between Eastand WestZeev Weiss
0920 - 0940
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as aManagement Activity of Archaeological Sites AGuide for Archaeologists IIHande Koumlkten
Une Grande Famille de Deacutecors GeacuteomeacutetriquesBernard Parzysz
0940 - 1000
Display of Ancient Mosaics İn Situ Tourism as anInuential Factor Steering the Decision MakingProcessŞehriguumll Yeşil Erdek
Mosaicos Mitoloacutegicos de Zeugma Y de Hispania Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
1000 - 1020 A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of TurkeyCondition Survey of MosaicsHande Koumlkten
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of SaintEirene at Constantinople Alessandro Taddei
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 2200 IZNIK (NICEA) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
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19 October 2009 Monday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 17Moderator Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Panel 18Moderator Veronika Scheibelreiter
0900 - 0920Signs of the Progression of Time in RomanMosaic ArtMaja Kramer
Une Nouvelle Mosaiumlque sur lrsquooppidum drsquoAlegraves(Gard France) Veacuteronique Blanc- BijonFabienne Olmer
0920 - 0940 Antikccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At Ikonograsi Emine Koumlker
The Latest Archaeological Discoveries about theMediana MosaicsGordana Jeremic
0940 - 1000New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa ATorre Annunziata ItalyJohn R Clarke - Lea Cline
Architekturdarstellungen auf roumlmischen MosaikenKleinasienHakan Mert
1000 - 1020Late Antiquity Mosaics in Portugal Virgilio Lopez
Orpheus Some Metaphors in MosaicNeil Cookson
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 19Moderator Selccediluk Şener
Panel 20Moderator Patricia Witts
1040 - 1100Opus Sectile Pavements From Western AsiaMinor Veronika Scheibelreiter
The First Roman Mosaics Discovered in CetobrigaCarlos Tavares da Silva - Joaquina Soares -Liciacutenia Wrench
1100 - 1020
Indagini Archeologiche A Palazzo ValentiniunQuartiere Residenziale Ai Margini Del ForoTraianoPaola Baldassarri
Olympos Mozaikli YapıGeccedil Antik Ccedilağ - Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaiklerinin Teknik ve Stil Değerlendirmesi Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 21Moderator Hande Koumlkten
Panel 22Moderator Liciacutenia Wrench
1215 - 1235Mosaic Studies And Souvenirs Leaving no StoneUnturnedPatricia Witts
The Mosaic of Leukippe and Theonoe in theKointos Villa in ZeugmaPaolo Vitellozzi
1235 - 1255Notice Mosaic of laquothe House of Medusaraquo(portugal Alter do Chatildeo)Maria Teresa Caetano
Metropolis Mozaikleri Ali Kazım Oumlz
1255 - 1315 Zeugma Danae Evinin MozaikleriMehmet Oumlnal
Mosaicos Con la Iconograa de Thethismadre
de Aquiles en Turquia Y en Otros Enclaves delImperio RomanoMercedes Duran Penedo
1315 - 1330 LUNCH
1330 - 1530 AIEMA MEETING
DISENGAGED DINNER
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20 October 2009 Tuesday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 23Moderator Mehmet Onal
Panel 24Moderator Paolo Vitellozzi
0900 - 0920De Que Hablamos Cuando Hablamos de TalleresMusivos Tardios en HispaniaMercedes Torres Carro
The Bejewelled Lady of SinopeFuumlsun Tuumllek
0920 - 0940 A new reading of the Dor mosaicIdit Sagiv-Hayik
Milli Azerbaycan Tarihi Muumlzesinde Hristyan AbideleriFariz Halilli
0940 - 1000Konya Tatkoumly ve Alibeykoumly Houmlyuumlğuuml Mozaikleri Asuman Baldıran- Osman Doğanay
Salamis Kenti Opus Sectile Taban Doumlşemeleri Aytaccedil Coşkun
1000 - 1020Il Mosaico di Metiochos E Parthenope da ZeugmaLucia Romizzi - Andrea Carini
Non-Destructive Investigations on Mosaic of theChurch of the Three HierarchsM Geba - N Vornicu - C Bibire
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 25Moderator Işıl R Işıklıkaya
Panel 26Moderator Luz Neira
1040 - 1100
Late Antique Private Luxury The Mosaic FloorsOf The Urban Mansion Of Sagalassos (ağlasunBurdur)Inge Uytterhoeven - Hande Koumlkten - MarcWaelkens - Markku Corremans
The Role of Late Antique Art in Early ChristianWorship A Reconsideration of the Iconographyof The lsquostarry Skyrsquo in Mosaics of the Late 5th -Early 6th C AdEllen Swift - Anne Alwis
1100 - 1020The Early Christian Mosaics with the Inscriptionsin CroatiaMarija Buzov
La Construccioacuten de las identidades de geacutenero atraveacutes de los mosaicos antioquenosJesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 27Moderator Marija Buzov
Panel 28Moderator Maja Kramer
1215 - 1235Kaunos Kubbeli Kilise Ek Yapısırsquondaki TabanMozaiği Ayşe Aydın
El Thiasos Marino en los Mosaicos Romanos deTurquiacuteaLuz Neira
1235 - 1255
The Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics Bugini RobertoFolli Luisa Portulano BrunellaRofa Elisabetta
A stibadium with a mosaic in the Roman Villa ofRabaccedilal Penela PortugalMiguel Pessoa
1255 - 1315
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romainede Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de AlgarveMaria De Jesus Duran Kremer
Mosaiumlques mythologiques de Zeugma Originaliteacuteet Liens iconographiques avec la peinturepompeacuteienne et les mosaiumlques italiques etafricains du I-II siegravecleLucia Romizzi
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
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HALL A HALL B
Panel 29Moderator Maria Kremer
Panel 30Moderator Miguel Pessoa
1500 - 1520
The Vases Representation (cantharus Crater)on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Signicant
Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late AntiquityFilomena Limatildeo
The Rape of Hylas and the Spectacles of the Amphitheatre on a Floor Mosaic from Volubilis
(Morocco)Margherita Carucci
1520 - 1540The Herakles mosaic discovered in Homs (Syria)Komait Abdallah
Myndos MosaicsDerya Şahin
1540 - 1600Les Mosaiumlques Agrave Thegraveme MythologiqueReacutecemment Deacutecouvertes Agrave NicircmesJean-yves Breuil
A Late Antique Residence in Augusta TraianaProvince of ThraceJulia Valeva
1600 - 1620Floor mosaics from a Roman villa in NinJagoda Meder
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of ItalicaFirmament ImagesIrene Mantildeas Romero
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630FREE TIME- BURSA -
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KISALTMALAR ABBREVIATIONS
AA Archaeologischer Anzeiger
Abulg Archaeologia Bulgarica
Acontia Acontia Revista de arqueologiacutea
ActaInstRomFin Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae
AEspA Archivo espantildeol de arqueologiacutea
AISCOM LrsquoAssociazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico
AJA American Journal of Archaelology
AJug Archaeologia JugoslavicaAM Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts Athenische Abteilung
AMethTh Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
AMS Asia Minor Studien
AnatoliaA Anatolia Antiqua
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der roumlmischen Welt
AnSt Anatolian Studies
AntAfr Antiquiteacutes africaines
AntigCr Antiguumledad y Cristianismo Monografiacuteas histoacutericas sobre la antiguumledad tardiacutea
AntK Antike Kunst
AntTard Antiquiteacute tardive Revue internationale drsquohistoire et drsquoarcheacuteologie
APregl Arheološki pregled Arheološko društvo JugoslavijeAquilNost Aquileia nostra Bollettino dellrsquoAssociazione nazionale per Aquileia
ArchCl Archeologia classica
Archeologia Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Published by the Society ofAntiquaries of London
ArtB The Art Bulletin
ASSAPH Assaph Studies in Art History
AST Araştırma Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
Atiqot Atiqot Journal of the Israel Department of Antiquities
AttiMemIstria Atti e memorie della Societagrave istriana di archeologia e storia patria
AW Antike Welt Zeitschrift fuumlr Archaumlologie und Kulturgeschichte
BAA Bulletin drsquoarcheologie algerienneBABesch Bulletin antieke beschaving Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology
BAcHist Boletiacuten de la Real academia de la historia
Baetica Baetica Estudios de arte geografiacutea e historia
BAR British Archaeological Reports British Series
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BCH Bulletin de correspondance helleacutenique
BCom Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxx
BCTH Bulletin archeacuteologique du Comiteacute des travaux historiques et scientifiques Paris
BdA Bollettino drsquoarte
BEFAR Bibliothegraveque des Ecoles franccedilaises drsquoAthegravenes et de Rome
Belleten Belleten Tuumlrk Tarih Kurumu
BJb Bonner Jahrbuumlcher des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn
BMQ The British Museum Quarterly BMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
Boreas Boreas Muumlnstersche Beitraumlge zur Archaumlologie
BSA The British school of Archaeology at Athens
BSEAA Boletin del Seminario de estudios de arte y arqueologia
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
BT Babylonian Talmud
BullAIEMA Bulletin de lrsquoAssociation internationale pour lrsquoetude de la mosaique antique
BullMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
CArch Cahiers archeacuteologiques
CEDAC CEDAC Bulletin Centre drsquoeacutetudes et de documentation archeacuteologique de la conservation deCartage
CEFR Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome
Chiron Chiron Mitteilungen der Kommission fuumlr Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des DeutschenArchaumlologischen Instituts
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
ClJ The Classical Journal
CMG Convegni di studi sulla Magna Grecia
CMGR I La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane I H STERN - G Ch PICARD (eds) Paris 1965 (Actes du Iercolloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Paris 30 aoucirct-3 septembre 1963)
CMGR II La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane II H STERN - M LE GAY (eds) Paris 1975 (Actes du IIe
colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Vienne-Isegravere 30 aoucirct-4septembre 1971)
CMGR III III Colloquio internazionale sul mosaico antico R FARIOLI CAMPANATI (eacuted) Ravenna1983 (Actes du IIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Ravenna6-10 septembre 1980)
CMGR IV La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane IV J -P DARMON - A REBOURG (eds) Paris 1994 (Actesdu IVe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique TregravevesTrier 8-14 aoucirct1984)
CMGR V Fifth Interneational Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics 1 - 2 P Johnson R Ling D J Smith(eds) Ann Arbor M1 1994 and 1995 (Actes du V e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de lamosaiumlque antique Bath 5-12 septembre 1987) (JRA supp9)
CMGR VI VI Col loquio internacional s obre mosaico ant iquo Palenc ia-Meacuterida Octubre 199 0D Fernandez GALIANO (ed) Guadalajara 1994 (Actes du VIe colloque international pour
lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Palencia-Meacuterida octobre 1990)CMGR VII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VII M ENNAIFER - A REBOURG (eds) Tunis 1999 (Actes
du VIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Tunis 3-7 octobre 1994)
CMGR VIII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VIII D PAUNNIER - Chr SCHMIDT (eds) Lausanne 2001(Actes du VIIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevaleLausanne 6-11 octobre 1997) Cahiers drsquoArcheacuteologie Romande 85-86
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviations xxi
CMGR IX La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine IX Heacutelegravene MORLIER (eacuted) Rome 2005 (Actes du IXe colloqueinternational pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome Eacutecole franccedilaisePalazzo Altemps 5 ndash 10 novembre 2001) (Coll EFR 352) (2 vol)
CMGR X La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine X (in Publised)
CMGR XI XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve AntikDoumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi Mozaiklerin Başlan-gıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi Stil ve Teknik uumlzerine Sorular 11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS Mosaics of Turkey andParallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World Questions ofIconography Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late ByzantineEra Mustafa ŞAHİN (Ed) Bursa 2009 (İstanbul 2011)
DNP Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopaumldie der Antike
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Empuacuteries Empuacuteries Revista de prehistograveria arqueologia i etnologia
EPRO Etudes preacuteliminaires aux religions orientales dans lrsquoempire romain
ExcIsr Excavations and Surveys in Israel
Expedition Expedition The Magazine of Archaeology Anthropology
FiE Forschungen in EphesosForschungen I -III Forschungen in Salona I Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institute
Gallia Gallia Fouilles et monuments archeacuteologiques en France metropolitaine
Habis Habis Universidad de Sevilla Arqueologiacutea filologiacutea claacutesica
Historia Historia Zeitschrift fuumlr Alte Geschichte
HistriaAnt Histria antiqua Casopis Međunarodnog Istraživačkog Centra za Arheologiju Journal of theInternational Research Centre for Archeology
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Iliria Iliria Revisteuml arkeologjike
IMT Paul Gauckler Inventaire des mosaiumlques de la Gaule et de lrsquoAfrique tome II AfriqueProconsulaire (Tunisie) Paris 1910 Suppleacutement Alfred Merlin Paris 1915
IstForsch Istanbuler Forschungen
IstMitt Istanbuler Mitteilungen
IvE Inschriften griechischer Staumldte aus Kleinasien
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JAT Journal of Ancient Topography - Rivista di topografia antica
JbAC Jahrbuch fuumlr Antike und Christentum
JbOumlByz Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JdI Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts
JHS The Journal of Hellenic Studies
JMR Journal of Mosaic Research
JOumlAI Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in WienJOumlB Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
JRS The Journal of Roman Studies
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
Klio Klio Beitraumlge zur alten Geschichte
Kokalos Kώκαλος Studi pubblicati dallacuteIstituto di storia antica dellacuteUniversitagrave di Palermo
KST Kazı Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxxii
LA Liber Annuus Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Jeacuterusalem
Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
Le Deacutecor II C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J-P DARMON S GOZLAN M-P RAYNAUDLe deacutecor geacuteomeacutetrique de la Mosaiumlque Romaine II Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif desdeacutecors centreacutes Paris 2002
LIMC Lexikon iconographicum mythologiae classicaeLLAuml Lexikon der AumlgyptologieLRAC Reallexikon fuumlr Antike und Christentum
LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Mainake Mainake Estudios de arqueologiacutea Malaguentildea
MEFR Melanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome
MEFRA Meacutelanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome Antiquiteacute
MEFRM Meacutelanges de lrsquoEacutecole Franccedilaise de Rome Moyen Age
MitChrA Mitteilungen zur christlichen Archaumlologie
MKKS Muumlze Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu
MM Madrider Mitteilungen
Museacuteon Le Museacuteon Revue drsquoeacutetudes orientales
OumlJh Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in Wien
OpArch Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom Opuscula archaeologica
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Peristil Peristil Zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti
PriloziZagreb Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu
QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine
RA Revue archeacuteologique
RACr Rivista di archeologia cristiana
RB Revue biblique
RBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen Kunst Begruumlndet von K Wessel und M Restle Herausgege-Herausgege-ben von M Restle (Stuttgart)
RCHM Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
RHVaud Revue historique vaudoise
StudMisc Peter Johnson - Roger Ling - David J Smith (ed) Fifth International Colloquium on AncientMosaics held at Bath England on September 5 ndash 12 Ann Arbor Michigan 1994 et 1995(Actes du Ve colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique) (JRA SupplementarySeries 9) (2 vol)
TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
Traditio Traditio Studies in Ancient and Medieval History Thought and Religion
TuumlrkAD Tuumlrk Arkeoloji Dergisi
WO Die Welt des Orients
ZDPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaumlstina-Vereins
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e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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JESNICK 1997 I Jesnick The Image of Orpheus in Roman Mosaic An
Exploration of the Figure of Orpheus in Graeco-Roman
Art and Culture with Special Reference to its Expression
in the Medium of MosaIc in Late Antiquity OxfordBAR International Series 671 nr 73 141
LAZREG 2002
N B Lazreg Image de pierre La Tunisie en mosaiumlqueA ben Abed-ben Khader (ed) Paris 488-490
LIDDEL ndash SCOTT 1940 HG Liddel ndash R Scott Greek-English Lexicon
Oxford
MICHAELIDES 1992 D Michaelides Cypriot Mosaics Nicosia
Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie 1989 Cataloguedrsquoexposition au Museacutee de la civilisation gallo-romainede Lyon Fevrier-Mai
MUCZNIK et al 2004 S Mucznik ndash A Ovadiah ndash Y Turnhaim Art in Eretz
Israel in Late Antiquity Collectanea Tel Aviv 193-208= OVADIAH A et MUCZNIK S 1981 ldquoOrpheus fromJerusalem ndash Pagan or Christian Imagerdquo The Jerusalem
Cathedra 1 Jerusalem 152-166
OLSZEWSKI 1995 M T Olszewski laquo Lrsquoimage et sa fonction dans la
mosaiumlque byzantine des premiegraveres basiliques en OrientLrsquoiconographie chreacutetienne expliqueacutee par Cyrille deJeacuterusalem (314-387) raquo CArch 43 9-35
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Marek Titien Olszewski664
OLSZEWSKI 2000 M T Olszewski laquo Eacutevocation allusive des maximes des
Sept Sages A propos de la ldquoColegravere drsquoAchilleldquo sur lamosaiumlque de Meacuterida raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LI 37-46 pls IV-V
OLSZEWSKI 2001 MT Olszewski laquo Arteacutemidore mythologie et sym-
bolique funeacuteraire raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LII 39-60pls XI-XV
OLSZEWSKI 2001 M T Olszewski laquo Le langage symbolique dans
la deacutecoration agrave scegravenes mythologiques et sonsens dans les tombes peintes de lrsquoOrient romainNouvelle approche raquoVIIe Colloque de lrsquoAssociation
Internationale pour lrsquoeacutetude de la peinture antiqueSt-Romain-en-Gal 1998 Paris 2001 155-162 plsXXVI-XXIX
OLSZEWSKI 2001
M T Olszewski laquo Mauvais œil et protection contrelrsquoenvie dans la mosaiumlque de Cheikh Zouegravede au Sinaiuml(IV-Ve siegravecle) raquo D Paunier - C Schmidt (eds) Actes du VIIIegraveme Colloque International pour lrsquo eacutetude
de la Mosaiumlque Antique 1-2 Lausanne Cahiersdrsquoarcheacuteologie romande 276-301
OLSZEWSKI 2005 M T Olszewski ldquoThe Historical Background of the
Zodiac Mosaic Calendar in the Lower Synagogue atHammath-Tiberias raquo Newsletter of American Schools
of Oriental Research 55 nr 3 18
OLSZEWSKI 2005
M T Olszewski laquo Le statut de lrsquoimage selonArteacutemidore et lrsquoart romain raquo H Morlier (ed) Actes du
IX e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque
antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome novembre 2001 Rome Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome-352 II859-880
OLSZEWSKI 2006 M T Olszewski laquo La mosaiumlque de la Fecircte Nocturne
Pannychis de Shahba-Philippopolis et le teacutemoignagedrsquoArteacutemidore de Daldis (Onirocriticon II 61) raquo inKalathos Studies in Honour of Asher Ovadiah TelAviv ASSAPH 2005-2006 Studies in Art History vols10-11 381-390
OLSZEWSKI 2010 M T Olszewski laquo Images allusives Dionysos et Ariane
dans lrsquoespace reacuteserveacute aux femmes (gyneacuteceacutee) Le cas dePtoleacutemaiumls et Cyregravene en Libye raquo in I Bragantini edActes du X Congresso Internazionale AssociationInternationale pour la Peinture Murale AntiqueNeapol 17-21 septembre 2007 Annali di Archeologiae storia antica 181 315 321
OLSZEWSKI 2008 M T Olszewski laquo Orpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque
funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalem raquo Rey Mimoso-Ruiz BMimoso-Ruiz (ed) Actes du colloque laquo Orpheacutee entreSoleil et ombre raquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulouse du16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial
ndash mars 2008 205-214 226OLSZEWSKI 2009 M T Olszewski laquo Identification de cadrans solaires
sur trois mosaiumlques byzantines au Proche-Orientagrave Tayibat al-Imam Jeacuterusalem et Umm al-Rassas(vignette de Sebastis) et quelques autres identificationshypothetiques de gnomons geants (vignettes de KastronMefad a Umm al-Rassas et de Jeacuterusalem agrave Madaba) raquoArcheologia (Warsaw) 60 2009 (in pression)
REBILLARD 2003 E Rebillard Religion et seacutepulture lrsquoEglise les vivants et
les morts dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute tardive EPHESS Collection
civilisations et socieacuteteacutes 115 ParisSEGAL 1959 J B Segal ldquoNew Mosaics from Edessardquo Archaeology
12 150-157
STONE 2006 M E Stone Apocrypha Pseudepigrapha and Armenian
Sudies Collected Papers Leuven
STRZYGOWSKI 1901 J Strzygowski ldquoDa Neuegefundene Orpheus Mosaik in
Jerusalemrdquo ZDPV 24 139-165
TUumlLEK 1998 F Tuumllek Efsuncu Orpheus ndash Orpheus the Magician
The Transition of Orpheus theme from Poganism toChristianity in late Roman-Early Byzantine MosaicsIstanbul
VIEILLEFON 2003 L Vieillefon La figure drsquoOrpheeacute dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute
tardive Les mutations drsquoun mythe du heacuteros paiumlen auchantre chreacutetien Paris De Boccard
VINCENT 1901 H Vincent laquo Une mosaiumlque byzantine agrave Jeacuterusalem raquo
RB 10 436-444
VINCENT 1902 H Vincent laquo La mosaiumlque drsquoOrpheacutee raquo RB 11
100-103
WOLFF 2000 E Wolff La poeacutesie funeacuteraire eacutepigraphique agrave Rome
Rennes
WREDE 1981 H Wrede Consecratio in formam deorumVergoumlttlich-
te Privatpersonen in der roumlmischen Kaiserzeit Mainz
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İccedilindekiler Table of Contents viii
Marija Buzov
e Early Christian Mosaics with Inscription in Croatia 171
Javier Cabrero Piquero
A New Hispano-Roman Mosaic with the Story of Meleager 193
Maria Teresa Caetano ndash Caacutetia Mouratildeo A ldquoPortraitrdquo of Book XII of the AEligneid Mosaic from the laquo House of the Medusa raquo (Alter do Chatildeo Portugal) 205
Birol Can
Technical Stylistic Iconographic Evaluation and Dating of Mosaics of Altıntepe Church 225
Margherita Carucci
An Example of Visual Humour on a Romano-African Mosaic Putting Images in their Context 235
John R Clarke ndash Lea Cline
New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa A Torre Annunziata - Italy - 50 BC ndash AD 79 247
Neil Cookson
Orpheus Some Metaphors in Mosaic 259
Violeta Cvetkovska Ocokoljic ndash Jugoslav Ocokoljic
Parallel Research Fresco Painting of Chora and Sopocani 269
Jean-Pierre Darmon
Une eacutenigme enfin reacutesolue la fausse Iphigeacutenie drsquoAntioche eacutetait une Alceste 283
Carlos Tavares da Silva ndash Joaquina Soares ndash Liciacutenia Nunes Correia Wrench
Les premiegraveres mosaiumlques romaines deacutecouvertes agrave Caetobriga (Setuacutebal Portugal) 295
Anne-Sophie Decriaud
Les Saisons personnifieacutees sur les mosaiumlques romaines tardives (IV e
-VI e
siegravecles) de la partie orientaledu Bassin meacutediterraneacuteen (Turquie Syrie Liban Israeumll Jordanie) 309
Sophie Delbarre-Baumlrtschi
Les mosaiumlques romaines en Suisse 333
Lorella Maria de Matteis
e Mosaics of the Early Christian Basilicas on the Island of Kos 339
Maria de Jesus Duran Kremer
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romaine de Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de lrsquoAlgarve 353
Mercedes Duraacuten Penedo Mosaicos con la iconografiacutea de etis madre de Aquiles en Turquiacutea y en otros enclaves del Imperio 363
Andreas M Foulias
e Basilica of Agioi Saranta Kırklar Tekke in Cyprus and its Mosaics 381
Zaraza Friedman
Ships Depicted in the Madaba Map Mosaic 391
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Michel E Fuchs ndash Sophie Delbarre-Baumlrtschi
Derecik Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacuteglise pour deux mosaiumlques 405
Alessandra Guiglia Guidobaldi
e Marble Floor Decoration in Constantinople Prolegomena to a Corpus 413
Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets Les thegravemes dionysiaques sur les mosaiumlques helleacutenistiques drsquoAsie Mineure (Turquie) 437
Bertrand Houix ndash Veacuteronique Blanc-Bijon ndash Jean-Yves Breuil ndash Jean-Pierre Darmon ndashPascale Linant de Bellefonds
Mosaiumlques agrave thegravemes mythologiques reacutecemment deacutecouvertes sous lrsquoavenue Jean-Jaures agrave Nimes (France) 447
Işıl Rabia Işıklıkaya-Laubscher
Mosaics in Perge Preliminary Report on the Mosaics of the Macellum 467
Werner Jobst
Das Mosaikpaviment der fruumlhchristlichen Basilika von GoumlnenGerme in Mysien (Hellespont) 483
Lyudmila G KhrushkovaOpus Sectile Pavements in the Crimea and on the East Coast of the Black Sea 505
Ruth Kolarik
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implications for other Regions 519
Emine Koumlker
Antik Ccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At İkonografisi 531
Maja Kramer
Signs of Progression in the Personifications of the Seasons in Roman Mosaics e Artistic Approach Procedures and Tools Used by the Craftsmen to Relate the Viewer to the Experience of the Passing of Time 547
Delphine Lauritzen
Mosaiumlques drsquoOkeacuteanos et de alassa agrave Zurich Une proposition de mise en perspective 555
Filomena Limatildeo
e Vasersquos Representation (Cantharus Crater) on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Significant Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late Antiquity 565
Virgiacutelio Lopes
Late Antiquity in Portugal e Mosaics 585
Guadalupe Loacutepez Monteagudo
Opora through East and West Abundance Allegories in Mosaics of Spain and Turkey 597
Irene Mantildeas Romero
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of Italica Firmament Images 615
Luz Neira
e Sea iasos of Nereids and Tritons in the Roman Mosaics of Turkey 631
Marek Titien Olszewski
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 655
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Marek Titien Olszewski ndash Piotr Zakrzewski
e Decoration of the Dining Rooms at Ptolemais in Cyrenaica (Libya) in the Light of the Last Researches 665
Elda Omari
e History and Development of Mosaics in Albania (4th 3rd Century BC ndash 6 th Century AD) 675
Asher OvadiahConservative Approaches in the Ancient Synagogue Mosaic Pavements in Israele Cases of lsquoEin Gedi and SepphorisZippori 693
Ali Kazım Oumlz
e Mosaics of Metropolis in Ionia 701
Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
Building with Mosaics of Olympos Mosaics of Late Ancient Era ndash Early Byzantine Period 709
David Parrish - Birte Poulsen
Late Antique Tombs with Mosaics in Ancient Halikarnassos 721
Bernard ParzyszUne grande famille de deacutecors geacuteomeacutetriques 735
Silvia Pedone
e Marble Omphalos of Saint Sophia in Constantinople An Analysis of an Opus Sectile Pavement of Middle Byzantine Age 749
Claudia Pelosi ndash Ulderico Santamaria
e 6 th Century AD Floor Mosaic of the Church of Kuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Characterization of the Constitutive Materials Finding of the Quarries of Origin 769
Miguel Pessoa
Stibadium with a Mosaic in the Roman Villa of Rabaccedilal Penela Portugal 779Vania Popova ndash Alexander Lirsch
Corpus of Late Antique and Early Christian Mosaics in Bulgaria 793
Manuel Romero ndash Sebastiaacuten Vargas
Mosaic Workshop Located in the Villa de la Estacioacuten de Antequera Maacutelaga (Espantildea) 823
Idit Sagiv-Hayik
e Hellenistic Mosaic of Dor ndash Figural Image or eatrical Mask 829
Barış Salman
Reflection of Some Cults and Rituels on Mosaics and Reliefs in Osroene and Other Syrian Cultures 843
M Pilar San Nicolaacutes Pedraz
On a Mosaic from Maacutelaga with the Depiction of ZeusJupiter and Antiope 853
Derya Şahin
Myndos Mosaics 865
Y Selccediluk Şener
Mozaiklerin Korunmasında Temel Kriterler 873
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Alessandro Taddei
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of Saint Eirene at Constantinople 883
Giordana Trovabene
Knots of Lines like Weaves of reads A Corpus of Early Medieval Mosaics in ldquoVenetordquo 897
Fuumlsun Tuumlleke Bejewelled Lady of Sinope 921
Julia Valeva
Une riche domus de Stara Zagora ( Augusta Trajana-Beroe ) Publication preacuteliminaire 927
Zeev Weiss
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between East and West 941
Patricia Witts
Mosaic Studies and Souvenirs 953
Şehriguumll Yeşil-Erdek
Display of Ancient Mosaics Tourism as an Influential Factor Steering the Decision Making Process 963
Diklah Zohar
Application Procedures of Mosaics and the Division of Production Work Examples from Madaba Beth Alpha and Antioch 969
Hande Koumlkten
A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of Turkey Condition Survey of Mosaics 975
Hande Koumlkten
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as a Management Activity of Archaeological Sites 983
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BİLİMSEL PROGRAM SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
16 October 2009 Fr983145day
0900 - 1040 Open983145ng Ceremony OumlRDEKLİ COMPLEX
HALL A HALL B
Panel 1Moderator Dav983145d Parr983145sh
Panel 2Moderator Werner Jobst
1040 - 1100
La Fausse Iph983145geacuten983145e Dant983145oche Une Eacuten983145gme Enf983145n
ReacutesolueJean - P983145erre Darmon
Les Personn983145f983145cat983145ons Des Sa983145sons Sur Les MosaiumlquesTard983145ves (983145ve-v983145e S983145egravecles) De La Part983145e Or983145entale Du
Bass983145n Meacuted983145terraneacuteen (Turqu983145e Syr983145e Jordan983145ePalest983145ne)Anne-Soph983145e Deacutecr983145aud
1100 - 1120 Intrecc983145 d983145 l983145nee come trame d983145 f983145l983145 Per un corpus de983145mosa983145c983145 altomed983145eval983145 del VenetoG983145ordana Trovabene
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 3Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 4Moderator Anne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
1215 - 1235 Reflect983145on of Cults and R983145tuels on Mosa983145cs andRel983145efs 983145n Osroene and Other Syr983145an CulturesBarış Salman
Aspects Of Euerget983145sm And Soc983145o Econom983145c ForcesIn Byzant983145ne And Early Islam983145c Mosa983145cs In JordanBasema Hamarneh
1235 - 1255Les Pavements des Thermes Agraversquo octogone De PupputAiumlcha Ben Abed - Roger Hanoune
Mosa983145c Decorat983145on 983145n C983145v983145c Context Late ant983145quepavements from PergeIşıl R Işıklıkaya
1255 - 1315
Derec983145k Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacutegl983145se pour deuxmosaiumlquesM983145chel E FuchsSoph983145e Delbarre-Baumlrtsch983145
Bursa Moza983145kler983145Recep Okccedilu
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
HALL A HALL B
Panel 5Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 6Moderator Aiumlcha Ben Abed
1500 - 1520The VI th century floor mosa983145c of the church ofKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Mar983145a Andaloro - Paola Pogl983145an983145
Erz983145ncan - Altıntepe K983145l983145se Moza983145kler983145B983145rol Can
1520 - 1540The Bas983145l983145ca Of Ag983145o983145 Sarantak983145rklar Tekke In CyprusAnd Its Mosa983145csAndreas Foul983145as
D983145onysos et la mer les mosaiumlques agrave lrsquoeacutepoquehelleacuten983145st983145que et au deacutebut de lrsquoeacutepoque 983145mpeacuter983145aleAnne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexiv
1540 - 1600Early Byzant983145ne Mosa983145cs W983145th Person983145f983145cat983145ons FromTurkey And Syr983145aChr983145st983145ne Kondoleon
El Mosa983145co Pav983145mental De La Basiacutel983145ca De L983145lla Del Re983145G983145sela R983145poll Catal983145na MasM983145guel Aacutengel Cau
1600 - 1620Corpus Of Late Ant983145que And Early Chr983145st983145an Mosa983145csIn Bulgar983145aAlexander L983145rsch
Mosa983145cs In Ant983145och A Morpholog983145cal Observat983145onD983145klah Zohar
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630 - 1640 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 7Moderator Mar983145a Andaloro
Panel 8Moderator B983145rol Can
1640 - 1700Pompe983145opol983145s ( Taşkoumlpruuml )Lu983145sa Musso
La Produz983145one Pav983145mentale Pugl983145ese Tra Tardoant983145coE Med983145oevo Evoluz983145one Tecn983145ca E St983145l983145st983145caCarr983145no Rachele
1700 - 1720La ma983145son des deux l983145ons agrave CarthageAiumlcha Ben-AbedBen Khader - Cather983145ne Balmelle
Putt983145ng In Context Two Mosa983145cs Of Okeanos AndThalassaDelph983145ne Renaut
1720 - 1740
1740 - 1800 DISCUSSION
1900 - 2200 DINNER Mevlev983145 Presentat983145on
17 October 2009 Saturday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 9Moderator Luisa Musso
Panel 10Moderator Asuman Baldıran
0900 - 0920New Mosaics at the Colonia Patricia CordubaFrancesc Josep de Rueda Roigeacute
Parallel Research Fresco Painting Of Chora AndSopocani Violeta C OcokoljicJugoslav Ocokoljic
0920 - 0940Sailing in the Dead Sea - Madaba Map MosaicZaraza Friedman
Mosaique funeacuteraire drsquoOrpheacutee de Jerusalem auMuseacutee Archeacuteologique drsquoIstanbul CompleacutementdrsquoenquecircteMarek Titien Olszewski
0940 - 1000Literary References on Three Roman MosaicPanelsSarah E Cox
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implicationsfor Other RegionsRuth Kolarik
1000 - 1020I Mosaici delle Basiliche Paleocristianedellrsquoisola di CosLorella Maria De Matteis
The Marble Floor Decoration in ConstantinopleProlegomen to a Corpus Alessandra Guiglia
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 11Moderator Derya Şahin
Panel 12Moderator Zaraza Friedman
1040 - 1100
Conservative Approaches In The SynagogueMosaic Pavements In Israel The Cases Of lsquoeinGedi And Sepphoris Zippori Asher Ovadiah
Theatre and Art Mosaics as Evidence forDramatic PerformanceKatherine Dunbabin
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xv
1100 - 1020Late Antique Tombs With Mosaics In AncientHalikarnassosDavid Parrish - Birte Poulsen
A Propos Des Opus Sectile Deacutecouverts Dans LaMaison Du Cours Pourtoules (orange-vaucluse)Eric Morvillez
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 13Moderator Birte Poulsen
Panel 14Moderator Asher Ovadiah
1215 - 1235The Mosaic Pavement of the Early ChristianBasilica At GoumlnenGerme In Mysia laquoHellespontraquoWerner Jobst
Oriental motifs and patterns in the mosaic art ofTarragonaRosario Navarro
1235 - 1255The Vith Century Floor Mosaic Of The Church OfKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) Ulderico Santamaria - Claudia Pelosi
The Marble Omphalos Of The St Sophia OfConstantinople Analysis Of An Opus SectilePavement Of The Middle Byzantine PeriodSilvia Pedone
1255 - 1315Torba Manastır Kompleksi Mozaikleri M Aykut Oumlzet
The Marble Floor Of St John Studius InConstantinople A Forgotten MasterpieceClaudia Barsanti
1315 - 1330Sardisrsquoteki Geccedil Roma-Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaikleriEmine Tok
Mylasa Mozaikleri Abuzer Kızıl
1330 - 1345 DISCUSSION
1400 - 2200 DERECİK ( BUumlYUumlKORHAN ) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
18 October 2009 Sunday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 15Moderator Hakan Mert
Panel 16Moderator Michel E Fuchs
0900 - 0920Basic Criteria for the Preservation of Mosaics AGuide for Archaeologists ISelccediluk Şener
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between Eastand WestZeev Weiss
0920 - 0940
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as aManagement Activity of Archaeological Sites AGuide for Archaeologists IIHande Koumlkten
Une Grande Famille de Deacutecors GeacuteomeacutetriquesBernard Parzysz
0940 - 1000
Display of Ancient Mosaics İn Situ Tourism as anInuential Factor Steering the Decision MakingProcessŞehriguumll Yeşil Erdek
Mosaicos Mitoloacutegicos de Zeugma Y de Hispania Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
1000 - 1020 A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of TurkeyCondition Survey of MosaicsHande Koumlkten
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of SaintEirene at Constantinople Alessandro Taddei
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 2200 IZNIK (NICEA) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexvi
19 October 2009 Monday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 17Moderator Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Panel 18Moderator Veronika Scheibelreiter
0900 - 0920Signs of the Progression of Time in RomanMosaic ArtMaja Kramer
Une Nouvelle Mosaiumlque sur lrsquooppidum drsquoAlegraves(Gard France) Veacuteronique Blanc- BijonFabienne Olmer
0920 - 0940 Antikccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At Ikonograsi Emine Koumlker
The Latest Archaeological Discoveries about theMediana MosaicsGordana Jeremic
0940 - 1000New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa ATorre Annunziata ItalyJohn R Clarke - Lea Cline
Architekturdarstellungen auf roumlmischen MosaikenKleinasienHakan Mert
1000 - 1020Late Antiquity Mosaics in Portugal Virgilio Lopez
Orpheus Some Metaphors in MosaicNeil Cookson
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 19Moderator Selccediluk Şener
Panel 20Moderator Patricia Witts
1040 - 1100Opus Sectile Pavements From Western AsiaMinor Veronika Scheibelreiter
The First Roman Mosaics Discovered in CetobrigaCarlos Tavares da Silva - Joaquina Soares -Liciacutenia Wrench
1100 - 1020
Indagini Archeologiche A Palazzo ValentiniunQuartiere Residenziale Ai Margini Del ForoTraianoPaola Baldassarri
Olympos Mozaikli YapıGeccedil Antik Ccedilağ - Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaiklerinin Teknik ve Stil Değerlendirmesi Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 21Moderator Hande Koumlkten
Panel 22Moderator Liciacutenia Wrench
1215 - 1235Mosaic Studies And Souvenirs Leaving no StoneUnturnedPatricia Witts
The Mosaic of Leukippe and Theonoe in theKointos Villa in ZeugmaPaolo Vitellozzi
1235 - 1255Notice Mosaic of laquothe House of Medusaraquo(portugal Alter do Chatildeo)Maria Teresa Caetano
Metropolis Mozaikleri Ali Kazım Oumlz
1255 - 1315 Zeugma Danae Evinin MozaikleriMehmet Oumlnal
Mosaicos Con la Iconograa de Thethismadre
de Aquiles en Turquia Y en Otros Enclaves delImperio RomanoMercedes Duran Penedo
1315 - 1330 LUNCH
1330 - 1530 AIEMA MEETING
DISENGAGED DINNER
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xvii
20 October 2009 Tuesday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 23Moderator Mehmet Onal
Panel 24Moderator Paolo Vitellozzi
0900 - 0920De Que Hablamos Cuando Hablamos de TalleresMusivos Tardios en HispaniaMercedes Torres Carro
The Bejewelled Lady of SinopeFuumlsun Tuumllek
0920 - 0940 A new reading of the Dor mosaicIdit Sagiv-Hayik
Milli Azerbaycan Tarihi Muumlzesinde Hristyan AbideleriFariz Halilli
0940 - 1000Konya Tatkoumly ve Alibeykoumly Houmlyuumlğuuml Mozaikleri Asuman Baldıran- Osman Doğanay
Salamis Kenti Opus Sectile Taban Doumlşemeleri Aytaccedil Coşkun
1000 - 1020Il Mosaico di Metiochos E Parthenope da ZeugmaLucia Romizzi - Andrea Carini
Non-Destructive Investigations on Mosaic of theChurch of the Three HierarchsM Geba - N Vornicu - C Bibire
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 25Moderator Işıl R Işıklıkaya
Panel 26Moderator Luz Neira
1040 - 1100
Late Antique Private Luxury The Mosaic FloorsOf The Urban Mansion Of Sagalassos (ağlasunBurdur)Inge Uytterhoeven - Hande Koumlkten - MarcWaelkens - Markku Corremans
The Role of Late Antique Art in Early ChristianWorship A Reconsideration of the Iconographyof The lsquostarry Skyrsquo in Mosaics of the Late 5th -Early 6th C AdEllen Swift - Anne Alwis
1100 - 1020The Early Christian Mosaics with the Inscriptionsin CroatiaMarija Buzov
La Construccioacuten de las identidades de geacutenero atraveacutes de los mosaicos antioquenosJesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 27Moderator Marija Buzov
Panel 28Moderator Maja Kramer
1215 - 1235Kaunos Kubbeli Kilise Ek Yapısırsquondaki TabanMozaiği Ayşe Aydın
El Thiasos Marino en los Mosaicos Romanos deTurquiacuteaLuz Neira
1235 - 1255
The Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics Bugini RobertoFolli Luisa Portulano BrunellaRofa Elisabetta
A stibadium with a mosaic in the Roman Villa ofRabaccedilal Penela PortugalMiguel Pessoa
1255 - 1315
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romainede Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de AlgarveMaria De Jesus Duran Kremer
Mosaiumlques mythologiques de Zeugma Originaliteacuteet Liens iconographiques avec la peinturepompeacuteienne et les mosaiumlques italiques etafricains du I-II siegravecleLucia Romizzi
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexviii
HALL A HALL B
Panel 29Moderator Maria Kremer
Panel 30Moderator Miguel Pessoa
1500 - 1520
The Vases Representation (cantharus Crater)on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Signicant
Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late AntiquityFilomena Limatildeo
The Rape of Hylas and the Spectacles of the Amphitheatre on a Floor Mosaic from Volubilis
(Morocco)Margherita Carucci
1520 - 1540The Herakles mosaic discovered in Homs (Syria)Komait Abdallah
Myndos MosaicsDerya Şahin
1540 - 1600Les Mosaiumlques Agrave Thegraveme MythologiqueReacutecemment Deacutecouvertes Agrave NicircmesJean-yves Breuil
A Late Antique Residence in Augusta TraianaProvince of ThraceJulia Valeva
1600 - 1620Floor mosaics from a Roman villa in NinJagoda Meder
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of ItalicaFirmament ImagesIrene Mantildeas Romero
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630FREE TIME- BURSA -
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KISALTMALAR ABBREVIATIONS
AA Archaeologischer Anzeiger
Abulg Archaeologia Bulgarica
Acontia Acontia Revista de arqueologiacutea
ActaInstRomFin Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae
AEspA Archivo espantildeol de arqueologiacutea
AISCOM LrsquoAssociazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico
AJA American Journal of Archaelology
AJug Archaeologia JugoslavicaAM Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts Athenische Abteilung
AMethTh Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
AMS Asia Minor Studien
AnatoliaA Anatolia Antiqua
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der roumlmischen Welt
AnSt Anatolian Studies
AntAfr Antiquiteacutes africaines
AntigCr Antiguumledad y Cristianismo Monografiacuteas histoacutericas sobre la antiguumledad tardiacutea
AntK Antike Kunst
AntTard Antiquiteacute tardive Revue internationale drsquohistoire et drsquoarcheacuteologie
APregl Arheološki pregled Arheološko društvo JugoslavijeAquilNost Aquileia nostra Bollettino dellrsquoAssociazione nazionale per Aquileia
ArchCl Archeologia classica
Archeologia Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Published by the Society ofAntiquaries of London
ArtB The Art Bulletin
ASSAPH Assaph Studies in Art History
AST Araştırma Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
Atiqot Atiqot Journal of the Israel Department of Antiquities
AttiMemIstria Atti e memorie della Societagrave istriana di archeologia e storia patria
AW Antike Welt Zeitschrift fuumlr Archaumlologie und Kulturgeschichte
BAA Bulletin drsquoarcheologie algerienneBABesch Bulletin antieke beschaving Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology
BAcHist Boletiacuten de la Real academia de la historia
Baetica Baetica Estudios de arte geografiacutea e historia
BAR British Archaeological Reports British Series
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BCH Bulletin de correspondance helleacutenique
BCom Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma
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BCTH Bulletin archeacuteologique du Comiteacute des travaux historiques et scientifiques Paris
BdA Bollettino drsquoarte
BEFAR Bibliothegraveque des Ecoles franccedilaises drsquoAthegravenes et de Rome
Belleten Belleten Tuumlrk Tarih Kurumu
BJb Bonner Jahrbuumlcher des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn
BMQ The British Museum Quarterly BMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
Boreas Boreas Muumlnstersche Beitraumlge zur Archaumlologie
BSA The British school of Archaeology at Athens
BSEAA Boletin del Seminario de estudios de arte y arqueologia
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
BT Babylonian Talmud
BullAIEMA Bulletin de lrsquoAssociation internationale pour lrsquoetude de la mosaique antique
BullMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
CArch Cahiers archeacuteologiques
CEDAC CEDAC Bulletin Centre drsquoeacutetudes et de documentation archeacuteologique de la conservation deCartage
CEFR Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome
Chiron Chiron Mitteilungen der Kommission fuumlr Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des DeutschenArchaumlologischen Instituts
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
ClJ The Classical Journal
CMG Convegni di studi sulla Magna Grecia
CMGR I La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane I H STERN - G Ch PICARD (eds) Paris 1965 (Actes du Iercolloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Paris 30 aoucirct-3 septembre 1963)
CMGR II La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane II H STERN - M LE GAY (eds) Paris 1975 (Actes du IIe
colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Vienne-Isegravere 30 aoucirct-4septembre 1971)
CMGR III III Colloquio internazionale sul mosaico antico R FARIOLI CAMPANATI (eacuted) Ravenna1983 (Actes du IIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Ravenna6-10 septembre 1980)
CMGR IV La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane IV J -P DARMON - A REBOURG (eds) Paris 1994 (Actesdu IVe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique TregravevesTrier 8-14 aoucirct1984)
CMGR V Fifth Interneational Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics 1 - 2 P Johnson R Ling D J Smith(eds) Ann Arbor M1 1994 and 1995 (Actes du V e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de lamosaiumlque antique Bath 5-12 septembre 1987) (JRA supp9)
CMGR VI VI Col loquio internacional s obre mosaico ant iquo Palenc ia-Meacuterida Octubre 199 0D Fernandez GALIANO (ed) Guadalajara 1994 (Actes du VIe colloque international pour
lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Palencia-Meacuterida octobre 1990)CMGR VII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VII M ENNAIFER - A REBOURG (eds) Tunis 1999 (Actes
du VIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Tunis 3-7 octobre 1994)
CMGR VIII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VIII D PAUNNIER - Chr SCHMIDT (eds) Lausanne 2001(Actes du VIIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevaleLausanne 6-11 octobre 1997) Cahiers drsquoArcheacuteologie Romande 85-86
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviations xxi
CMGR IX La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine IX Heacutelegravene MORLIER (eacuted) Rome 2005 (Actes du IXe colloqueinternational pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome Eacutecole franccedilaisePalazzo Altemps 5 ndash 10 novembre 2001) (Coll EFR 352) (2 vol)
CMGR X La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine X (in Publised)
CMGR XI XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve AntikDoumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi Mozaiklerin Başlan-gıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi Stil ve Teknik uumlzerine Sorular 11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS Mosaics of Turkey andParallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World Questions ofIconography Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late ByzantineEra Mustafa ŞAHİN (Ed) Bursa 2009 (İstanbul 2011)
DNP Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopaumldie der Antike
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Empuacuteries Empuacuteries Revista de prehistograveria arqueologia i etnologia
EPRO Etudes preacuteliminaires aux religions orientales dans lrsquoempire romain
ExcIsr Excavations and Surveys in Israel
Expedition Expedition The Magazine of Archaeology Anthropology
FiE Forschungen in EphesosForschungen I -III Forschungen in Salona I Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institute
Gallia Gallia Fouilles et monuments archeacuteologiques en France metropolitaine
Habis Habis Universidad de Sevilla Arqueologiacutea filologiacutea claacutesica
Historia Historia Zeitschrift fuumlr Alte Geschichte
HistriaAnt Histria antiqua Casopis Međunarodnog Istraživačkog Centra za Arheologiju Journal of theInternational Research Centre for Archeology
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Iliria Iliria Revisteuml arkeologjike
IMT Paul Gauckler Inventaire des mosaiumlques de la Gaule et de lrsquoAfrique tome II AfriqueProconsulaire (Tunisie) Paris 1910 Suppleacutement Alfred Merlin Paris 1915
IstForsch Istanbuler Forschungen
IstMitt Istanbuler Mitteilungen
IvE Inschriften griechischer Staumldte aus Kleinasien
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JAT Journal of Ancient Topography - Rivista di topografia antica
JbAC Jahrbuch fuumlr Antike und Christentum
JbOumlByz Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JdI Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts
JHS The Journal of Hellenic Studies
JMR Journal of Mosaic Research
JOumlAI Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in WienJOumlB Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
JRS The Journal of Roman Studies
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
Klio Klio Beitraumlge zur alten Geschichte
Kokalos Kώκαλος Studi pubblicati dallacuteIstituto di storia antica dellacuteUniversitagrave di Palermo
KST Kazı Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxxii
LA Liber Annuus Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Jeacuterusalem
Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
Le Deacutecor II C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J-P DARMON S GOZLAN M-P RAYNAUDLe deacutecor geacuteomeacutetrique de la Mosaiumlque Romaine II Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif desdeacutecors centreacutes Paris 2002
LIMC Lexikon iconographicum mythologiae classicaeLLAuml Lexikon der AumlgyptologieLRAC Reallexikon fuumlr Antike und Christentum
LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Mainake Mainake Estudios de arqueologiacutea Malaguentildea
MEFR Melanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome
MEFRA Meacutelanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome Antiquiteacute
MEFRM Meacutelanges de lrsquoEacutecole Franccedilaise de Rome Moyen Age
MitChrA Mitteilungen zur christlichen Archaumlologie
MKKS Muumlze Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu
MM Madrider Mitteilungen
Museacuteon Le Museacuteon Revue drsquoeacutetudes orientales
OumlJh Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in Wien
OpArch Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom Opuscula archaeologica
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Peristil Peristil Zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti
PriloziZagreb Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu
QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine
RA Revue archeacuteologique
RACr Rivista di archeologia cristiana
RB Revue biblique
RBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen Kunst Begruumlndet von K Wessel und M Restle Herausgege-Herausgege-ben von M Restle (Stuttgart)
RCHM Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
RHVaud Revue historique vaudoise
StudMisc Peter Johnson - Roger Ling - David J Smith (ed) Fifth International Colloquium on AncientMosaics held at Bath England on September 5 ndash 12 Ann Arbor Michigan 1994 et 1995(Actes du Ve colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique) (JRA SupplementarySeries 9) (2 vol)
TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
Traditio Traditio Studies in Ancient and Medieval History Thought and Religion
TuumlrkAD Tuumlrk Arkeoloji Dergisi
WO Die Welt des Orients
ZDPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaumlstina-Vereins
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Marek Titien OLSZEWSKI
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 659
1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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Marek Titien Olszewski662
was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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İccedilindekiler Table of Contents ix
Michel E Fuchs ndash Sophie Delbarre-Baumlrtschi
Derecik Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacuteglise pour deux mosaiumlques 405
Alessandra Guiglia Guidobaldi
e Marble Floor Decoration in Constantinople Prolegomena to a Corpus 413
Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets Les thegravemes dionysiaques sur les mosaiumlques helleacutenistiques drsquoAsie Mineure (Turquie) 437
Bertrand Houix ndash Veacuteronique Blanc-Bijon ndash Jean-Yves Breuil ndash Jean-Pierre Darmon ndashPascale Linant de Bellefonds
Mosaiumlques agrave thegravemes mythologiques reacutecemment deacutecouvertes sous lrsquoavenue Jean-Jaures agrave Nimes (France) 447
Işıl Rabia Işıklıkaya-Laubscher
Mosaics in Perge Preliminary Report on the Mosaics of the Macellum 467
Werner Jobst
Das Mosaikpaviment der fruumlhchristlichen Basilika von GoumlnenGerme in Mysien (Hellespont) 483
Lyudmila G KhrushkovaOpus Sectile Pavements in the Crimea and on the East Coast of the Black Sea 505
Ruth Kolarik
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implications for other Regions 519
Emine Koumlker
Antik Ccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At İkonografisi 531
Maja Kramer
Signs of Progression in the Personifications of the Seasons in Roman Mosaics e Artistic Approach Procedures and Tools Used by the Craftsmen to Relate the Viewer to the Experience of the Passing of Time 547
Delphine Lauritzen
Mosaiumlques drsquoOkeacuteanos et de alassa agrave Zurich Une proposition de mise en perspective 555
Filomena Limatildeo
e Vasersquos Representation (Cantharus Crater) on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Significant Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late Antiquity 565
Virgiacutelio Lopes
Late Antiquity in Portugal e Mosaics 585
Guadalupe Loacutepez Monteagudo
Opora through East and West Abundance Allegories in Mosaics of Spain and Turkey 597
Irene Mantildeas Romero
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of Italica Firmament Images 615
Luz Neira
e Sea iasos of Nereids and Tritons in the Roman Mosaics of Turkey 631
Marek Titien Olszewski
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 655
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İccedilindekiler Table of Contentsx
Marek Titien Olszewski ndash Piotr Zakrzewski
e Decoration of the Dining Rooms at Ptolemais in Cyrenaica (Libya) in the Light of the Last Researches 665
Elda Omari
e History and Development of Mosaics in Albania (4th 3rd Century BC ndash 6 th Century AD) 675
Asher OvadiahConservative Approaches in the Ancient Synagogue Mosaic Pavements in Israele Cases of lsquoEin Gedi and SepphorisZippori 693
Ali Kazım Oumlz
e Mosaics of Metropolis in Ionia 701
Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
Building with Mosaics of Olympos Mosaics of Late Ancient Era ndash Early Byzantine Period 709
David Parrish - Birte Poulsen
Late Antique Tombs with Mosaics in Ancient Halikarnassos 721
Bernard ParzyszUne grande famille de deacutecors geacuteomeacutetriques 735
Silvia Pedone
e Marble Omphalos of Saint Sophia in Constantinople An Analysis of an Opus Sectile Pavement of Middle Byzantine Age 749
Claudia Pelosi ndash Ulderico Santamaria
e 6 th Century AD Floor Mosaic of the Church of Kuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Characterization of the Constitutive Materials Finding of the Quarries of Origin 769
Miguel Pessoa
Stibadium with a Mosaic in the Roman Villa of Rabaccedilal Penela Portugal 779Vania Popova ndash Alexander Lirsch
Corpus of Late Antique and Early Christian Mosaics in Bulgaria 793
Manuel Romero ndash Sebastiaacuten Vargas
Mosaic Workshop Located in the Villa de la Estacioacuten de Antequera Maacutelaga (Espantildea) 823
Idit Sagiv-Hayik
e Hellenistic Mosaic of Dor ndash Figural Image or eatrical Mask 829
Barış Salman
Reflection of Some Cults and Rituels on Mosaics and Reliefs in Osroene and Other Syrian Cultures 843
M Pilar San Nicolaacutes Pedraz
On a Mosaic from Maacutelaga with the Depiction of ZeusJupiter and Antiope 853
Derya Şahin
Myndos Mosaics 865
Y Selccediluk Şener
Mozaiklerin Korunmasında Temel Kriterler 873
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İccedilindekiler Table of Contents xi
Alessandro Taddei
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of Saint Eirene at Constantinople 883
Giordana Trovabene
Knots of Lines like Weaves of reads A Corpus of Early Medieval Mosaics in ldquoVenetordquo 897
Fuumlsun Tuumlleke Bejewelled Lady of Sinope 921
Julia Valeva
Une riche domus de Stara Zagora ( Augusta Trajana-Beroe ) Publication preacuteliminaire 927
Zeev Weiss
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between East and West 941
Patricia Witts
Mosaic Studies and Souvenirs 953
Şehriguumll Yeşil-Erdek
Display of Ancient Mosaics Tourism as an Influential Factor Steering the Decision Making Process 963
Diklah Zohar
Application Procedures of Mosaics and the Division of Production Work Examples from Madaba Beth Alpha and Antioch 969
Hande Koumlkten
A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of Turkey Condition Survey of Mosaics 975
Hande Koumlkten
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as a Management Activity of Archaeological Sites 983
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BİLİMSEL PROGRAM SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
16 October 2009 Fr983145day
0900 - 1040 Open983145ng Ceremony OumlRDEKLİ COMPLEX
HALL A HALL B
Panel 1Moderator Dav983145d Parr983145sh
Panel 2Moderator Werner Jobst
1040 - 1100
La Fausse Iph983145geacuten983145e Dant983145oche Une Eacuten983145gme Enf983145n
ReacutesolueJean - P983145erre Darmon
Les Personn983145f983145cat983145ons Des Sa983145sons Sur Les MosaiumlquesTard983145ves (983145ve-v983145e S983145egravecles) De La Part983145e Or983145entale Du
Bass983145n Meacuted983145terraneacuteen (Turqu983145e Syr983145e Jordan983145ePalest983145ne)Anne-Soph983145e Deacutecr983145aud
1100 - 1120 Intrecc983145 d983145 l983145nee come trame d983145 f983145l983145 Per un corpus de983145mosa983145c983145 altomed983145eval983145 del VenetoG983145ordana Trovabene
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 3Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 4Moderator Anne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
1215 - 1235 Reflect983145on of Cults and R983145tuels on Mosa983145cs andRel983145efs 983145n Osroene and Other Syr983145an CulturesBarış Salman
Aspects Of Euerget983145sm And Soc983145o Econom983145c ForcesIn Byzant983145ne And Early Islam983145c Mosa983145cs In JordanBasema Hamarneh
1235 - 1255Les Pavements des Thermes Agraversquo octogone De PupputAiumlcha Ben Abed - Roger Hanoune
Mosa983145c Decorat983145on 983145n C983145v983145c Context Late ant983145quepavements from PergeIşıl R Işıklıkaya
1255 - 1315
Derec983145k Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacutegl983145se pour deuxmosaiumlquesM983145chel E FuchsSoph983145e Delbarre-Baumlrtsch983145
Bursa Moza983145kler983145Recep Okccedilu
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
HALL A HALL B
Panel 5Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 6Moderator Aiumlcha Ben Abed
1500 - 1520The VI th century floor mosa983145c of the church ofKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Mar983145a Andaloro - Paola Pogl983145an983145
Erz983145ncan - Altıntepe K983145l983145se Moza983145kler983145B983145rol Can
1520 - 1540The Bas983145l983145ca Of Ag983145o983145 Sarantak983145rklar Tekke In CyprusAnd Its Mosa983145csAndreas Foul983145as
D983145onysos et la mer les mosaiumlques agrave lrsquoeacutepoquehelleacuten983145st983145que et au deacutebut de lrsquoeacutepoque 983145mpeacuter983145aleAnne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
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1540 - 1600Early Byzant983145ne Mosa983145cs W983145th Person983145f983145cat983145ons FromTurkey And Syr983145aChr983145st983145ne Kondoleon
El Mosa983145co Pav983145mental De La Basiacutel983145ca De L983145lla Del Re983145G983145sela R983145poll Catal983145na MasM983145guel Aacutengel Cau
1600 - 1620Corpus Of Late Ant983145que And Early Chr983145st983145an Mosa983145csIn Bulgar983145aAlexander L983145rsch
Mosa983145cs In Ant983145och A Morpholog983145cal Observat983145onD983145klah Zohar
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630 - 1640 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 7Moderator Mar983145a Andaloro
Panel 8Moderator B983145rol Can
1640 - 1700Pompe983145opol983145s ( Taşkoumlpruuml )Lu983145sa Musso
La Produz983145one Pav983145mentale Pugl983145ese Tra Tardoant983145coE Med983145oevo Evoluz983145one Tecn983145ca E St983145l983145st983145caCarr983145no Rachele
1700 - 1720La ma983145son des deux l983145ons agrave CarthageAiumlcha Ben-AbedBen Khader - Cather983145ne Balmelle
Putt983145ng In Context Two Mosa983145cs Of Okeanos AndThalassaDelph983145ne Renaut
1720 - 1740
1740 - 1800 DISCUSSION
1900 - 2200 DINNER Mevlev983145 Presentat983145on
17 October 2009 Saturday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 9Moderator Luisa Musso
Panel 10Moderator Asuman Baldıran
0900 - 0920New Mosaics at the Colonia Patricia CordubaFrancesc Josep de Rueda Roigeacute
Parallel Research Fresco Painting Of Chora AndSopocani Violeta C OcokoljicJugoslav Ocokoljic
0920 - 0940Sailing in the Dead Sea - Madaba Map MosaicZaraza Friedman
Mosaique funeacuteraire drsquoOrpheacutee de Jerusalem auMuseacutee Archeacuteologique drsquoIstanbul CompleacutementdrsquoenquecircteMarek Titien Olszewski
0940 - 1000Literary References on Three Roman MosaicPanelsSarah E Cox
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implicationsfor Other RegionsRuth Kolarik
1000 - 1020I Mosaici delle Basiliche Paleocristianedellrsquoisola di CosLorella Maria De Matteis
The Marble Floor Decoration in ConstantinopleProlegomen to a Corpus Alessandra Guiglia
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 11Moderator Derya Şahin
Panel 12Moderator Zaraza Friedman
1040 - 1100
Conservative Approaches In The SynagogueMosaic Pavements In Israel The Cases Of lsquoeinGedi And Sepphoris Zippori Asher Ovadiah
Theatre and Art Mosaics as Evidence forDramatic PerformanceKatherine Dunbabin
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1100 - 1020Late Antique Tombs With Mosaics In AncientHalikarnassosDavid Parrish - Birte Poulsen
A Propos Des Opus Sectile Deacutecouverts Dans LaMaison Du Cours Pourtoules (orange-vaucluse)Eric Morvillez
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 13Moderator Birte Poulsen
Panel 14Moderator Asher Ovadiah
1215 - 1235The Mosaic Pavement of the Early ChristianBasilica At GoumlnenGerme In Mysia laquoHellespontraquoWerner Jobst
Oriental motifs and patterns in the mosaic art ofTarragonaRosario Navarro
1235 - 1255The Vith Century Floor Mosaic Of The Church OfKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) Ulderico Santamaria - Claudia Pelosi
The Marble Omphalos Of The St Sophia OfConstantinople Analysis Of An Opus SectilePavement Of The Middle Byzantine PeriodSilvia Pedone
1255 - 1315Torba Manastır Kompleksi Mozaikleri M Aykut Oumlzet
The Marble Floor Of St John Studius InConstantinople A Forgotten MasterpieceClaudia Barsanti
1315 - 1330Sardisrsquoteki Geccedil Roma-Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaikleriEmine Tok
Mylasa Mozaikleri Abuzer Kızıl
1330 - 1345 DISCUSSION
1400 - 2200 DERECİK ( BUumlYUumlKORHAN ) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
18 October 2009 Sunday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 15Moderator Hakan Mert
Panel 16Moderator Michel E Fuchs
0900 - 0920Basic Criteria for the Preservation of Mosaics AGuide for Archaeologists ISelccediluk Şener
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between Eastand WestZeev Weiss
0920 - 0940
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as aManagement Activity of Archaeological Sites AGuide for Archaeologists IIHande Koumlkten
Une Grande Famille de Deacutecors GeacuteomeacutetriquesBernard Parzysz
0940 - 1000
Display of Ancient Mosaics İn Situ Tourism as anInuential Factor Steering the Decision MakingProcessŞehriguumll Yeşil Erdek
Mosaicos Mitoloacutegicos de Zeugma Y de Hispania Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
1000 - 1020 A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of TurkeyCondition Survey of MosaicsHande Koumlkten
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of SaintEirene at Constantinople Alessandro Taddei
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 2200 IZNIK (NICEA) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
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19 October 2009 Monday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 17Moderator Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Panel 18Moderator Veronika Scheibelreiter
0900 - 0920Signs of the Progression of Time in RomanMosaic ArtMaja Kramer
Une Nouvelle Mosaiumlque sur lrsquooppidum drsquoAlegraves(Gard France) Veacuteronique Blanc- BijonFabienne Olmer
0920 - 0940 Antikccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At Ikonograsi Emine Koumlker
The Latest Archaeological Discoveries about theMediana MosaicsGordana Jeremic
0940 - 1000New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa ATorre Annunziata ItalyJohn R Clarke - Lea Cline
Architekturdarstellungen auf roumlmischen MosaikenKleinasienHakan Mert
1000 - 1020Late Antiquity Mosaics in Portugal Virgilio Lopez
Orpheus Some Metaphors in MosaicNeil Cookson
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 19Moderator Selccediluk Şener
Panel 20Moderator Patricia Witts
1040 - 1100Opus Sectile Pavements From Western AsiaMinor Veronika Scheibelreiter
The First Roman Mosaics Discovered in CetobrigaCarlos Tavares da Silva - Joaquina Soares -Liciacutenia Wrench
1100 - 1020
Indagini Archeologiche A Palazzo ValentiniunQuartiere Residenziale Ai Margini Del ForoTraianoPaola Baldassarri
Olympos Mozaikli YapıGeccedil Antik Ccedilağ - Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaiklerinin Teknik ve Stil Değerlendirmesi Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 21Moderator Hande Koumlkten
Panel 22Moderator Liciacutenia Wrench
1215 - 1235Mosaic Studies And Souvenirs Leaving no StoneUnturnedPatricia Witts
The Mosaic of Leukippe and Theonoe in theKointos Villa in ZeugmaPaolo Vitellozzi
1235 - 1255Notice Mosaic of laquothe House of Medusaraquo(portugal Alter do Chatildeo)Maria Teresa Caetano
Metropolis Mozaikleri Ali Kazım Oumlz
1255 - 1315 Zeugma Danae Evinin MozaikleriMehmet Oumlnal
Mosaicos Con la Iconograa de Thethismadre
de Aquiles en Turquia Y en Otros Enclaves delImperio RomanoMercedes Duran Penedo
1315 - 1330 LUNCH
1330 - 1530 AIEMA MEETING
DISENGAGED DINNER
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20 October 2009 Tuesday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 23Moderator Mehmet Onal
Panel 24Moderator Paolo Vitellozzi
0900 - 0920De Que Hablamos Cuando Hablamos de TalleresMusivos Tardios en HispaniaMercedes Torres Carro
The Bejewelled Lady of SinopeFuumlsun Tuumllek
0920 - 0940 A new reading of the Dor mosaicIdit Sagiv-Hayik
Milli Azerbaycan Tarihi Muumlzesinde Hristyan AbideleriFariz Halilli
0940 - 1000Konya Tatkoumly ve Alibeykoumly Houmlyuumlğuuml Mozaikleri Asuman Baldıran- Osman Doğanay
Salamis Kenti Opus Sectile Taban Doumlşemeleri Aytaccedil Coşkun
1000 - 1020Il Mosaico di Metiochos E Parthenope da ZeugmaLucia Romizzi - Andrea Carini
Non-Destructive Investigations on Mosaic of theChurch of the Three HierarchsM Geba - N Vornicu - C Bibire
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 25Moderator Işıl R Işıklıkaya
Panel 26Moderator Luz Neira
1040 - 1100
Late Antique Private Luxury The Mosaic FloorsOf The Urban Mansion Of Sagalassos (ağlasunBurdur)Inge Uytterhoeven - Hande Koumlkten - MarcWaelkens - Markku Corremans
The Role of Late Antique Art in Early ChristianWorship A Reconsideration of the Iconographyof The lsquostarry Skyrsquo in Mosaics of the Late 5th -Early 6th C AdEllen Swift - Anne Alwis
1100 - 1020The Early Christian Mosaics with the Inscriptionsin CroatiaMarija Buzov
La Construccioacuten de las identidades de geacutenero atraveacutes de los mosaicos antioquenosJesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 27Moderator Marija Buzov
Panel 28Moderator Maja Kramer
1215 - 1235Kaunos Kubbeli Kilise Ek Yapısırsquondaki TabanMozaiği Ayşe Aydın
El Thiasos Marino en los Mosaicos Romanos deTurquiacuteaLuz Neira
1235 - 1255
The Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics Bugini RobertoFolli Luisa Portulano BrunellaRofa Elisabetta
A stibadium with a mosaic in the Roman Villa ofRabaccedilal Penela PortugalMiguel Pessoa
1255 - 1315
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romainede Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de AlgarveMaria De Jesus Duran Kremer
Mosaiumlques mythologiques de Zeugma Originaliteacuteet Liens iconographiques avec la peinturepompeacuteienne et les mosaiumlques italiques etafricains du I-II siegravecleLucia Romizzi
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
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HALL A HALL B
Panel 29Moderator Maria Kremer
Panel 30Moderator Miguel Pessoa
1500 - 1520
The Vases Representation (cantharus Crater)on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Signicant
Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late AntiquityFilomena Limatildeo
The Rape of Hylas and the Spectacles of the Amphitheatre on a Floor Mosaic from Volubilis
(Morocco)Margherita Carucci
1520 - 1540The Herakles mosaic discovered in Homs (Syria)Komait Abdallah
Myndos MosaicsDerya Şahin
1540 - 1600Les Mosaiumlques Agrave Thegraveme MythologiqueReacutecemment Deacutecouvertes Agrave NicircmesJean-yves Breuil
A Late Antique Residence in Augusta TraianaProvince of ThraceJulia Valeva
1600 - 1620Floor mosaics from a Roman villa in NinJagoda Meder
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of ItalicaFirmament ImagesIrene Mantildeas Romero
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630FREE TIME- BURSA -
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KISALTMALAR ABBREVIATIONS
AA Archaeologischer Anzeiger
Abulg Archaeologia Bulgarica
Acontia Acontia Revista de arqueologiacutea
ActaInstRomFin Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae
AEspA Archivo espantildeol de arqueologiacutea
AISCOM LrsquoAssociazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico
AJA American Journal of Archaelology
AJug Archaeologia JugoslavicaAM Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts Athenische Abteilung
AMethTh Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
AMS Asia Minor Studien
AnatoliaA Anatolia Antiqua
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der roumlmischen Welt
AnSt Anatolian Studies
AntAfr Antiquiteacutes africaines
AntigCr Antiguumledad y Cristianismo Monografiacuteas histoacutericas sobre la antiguumledad tardiacutea
AntK Antike Kunst
AntTard Antiquiteacute tardive Revue internationale drsquohistoire et drsquoarcheacuteologie
APregl Arheološki pregled Arheološko društvo JugoslavijeAquilNost Aquileia nostra Bollettino dellrsquoAssociazione nazionale per Aquileia
ArchCl Archeologia classica
Archeologia Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Published by the Society ofAntiquaries of London
ArtB The Art Bulletin
ASSAPH Assaph Studies in Art History
AST Araştırma Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
Atiqot Atiqot Journal of the Israel Department of Antiquities
AttiMemIstria Atti e memorie della Societagrave istriana di archeologia e storia patria
AW Antike Welt Zeitschrift fuumlr Archaumlologie und Kulturgeschichte
BAA Bulletin drsquoarcheologie algerienneBABesch Bulletin antieke beschaving Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology
BAcHist Boletiacuten de la Real academia de la historia
Baetica Baetica Estudios de arte geografiacutea e historia
BAR British Archaeological Reports British Series
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BCH Bulletin de correspondance helleacutenique
BCom Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxx
BCTH Bulletin archeacuteologique du Comiteacute des travaux historiques et scientifiques Paris
BdA Bollettino drsquoarte
BEFAR Bibliothegraveque des Ecoles franccedilaises drsquoAthegravenes et de Rome
Belleten Belleten Tuumlrk Tarih Kurumu
BJb Bonner Jahrbuumlcher des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn
BMQ The British Museum Quarterly BMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
Boreas Boreas Muumlnstersche Beitraumlge zur Archaumlologie
BSA The British school of Archaeology at Athens
BSEAA Boletin del Seminario de estudios de arte y arqueologia
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
BT Babylonian Talmud
BullAIEMA Bulletin de lrsquoAssociation internationale pour lrsquoetude de la mosaique antique
BullMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
CArch Cahiers archeacuteologiques
CEDAC CEDAC Bulletin Centre drsquoeacutetudes et de documentation archeacuteologique de la conservation deCartage
CEFR Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome
Chiron Chiron Mitteilungen der Kommission fuumlr Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des DeutschenArchaumlologischen Instituts
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
ClJ The Classical Journal
CMG Convegni di studi sulla Magna Grecia
CMGR I La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane I H STERN - G Ch PICARD (eds) Paris 1965 (Actes du Iercolloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Paris 30 aoucirct-3 septembre 1963)
CMGR II La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane II H STERN - M LE GAY (eds) Paris 1975 (Actes du IIe
colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Vienne-Isegravere 30 aoucirct-4septembre 1971)
CMGR III III Colloquio internazionale sul mosaico antico R FARIOLI CAMPANATI (eacuted) Ravenna1983 (Actes du IIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Ravenna6-10 septembre 1980)
CMGR IV La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane IV J -P DARMON - A REBOURG (eds) Paris 1994 (Actesdu IVe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique TregravevesTrier 8-14 aoucirct1984)
CMGR V Fifth Interneational Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics 1 - 2 P Johnson R Ling D J Smith(eds) Ann Arbor M1 1994 and 1995 (Actes du V e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de lamosaiumlque antique Bath 5-12 septembre 1987) (JRA supp9)
CMGR VI VI Col loquio internacional s obre mosaico ant iquo Palenc ia-Meacuterida Octubre 199 0D Fernandez GALIANO (ed) Guadalajara 1994 (Actes du VIe colloque international pour
lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Palencia-Meacuterida octobre 1990)CMGR VII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VII M ENNAIFER - A REBOURG (eds) Tunis 1999 (Actes
du VIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Tunis 3-7 octobre 1994)
CMGR VIII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VIII D PAUNNIER - Chr SCHMIDT (eds) Lausanne 2001(Actes du VIIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevaleLausanne 6-11 octobre 1997) Cahiers drsquoArcheacuteologie Romande 85-86
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviations xxi
CMGR IX La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine IX Heacutelegravene MORLIER (eacuted) Rome 2005 (Actes du IXe colloqueinternational pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome Eacutecole franccedilaisePalazzo Altemps 5 ndash 10 novembre 2001) (Coll EFR 352) (2 vol)
CMGR X La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine X (in Publised)
CMGR XI XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve AntikDoumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi Mozaiklerin Başlan-gıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi Stil ve Teknik uumlzerine Sorular 11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS Mosaics of Turkey andParallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World Questions ofIconography Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late ByzantineEra Mustafa ŞAHİN (Ed) Bursa 2009 (İstanbul 2011)
DNP Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopaumldie der Antike
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Empuacuteries Empuacuteries Revista de prehistograveria arqueologia i etnologia
EPRO Etudes preacuteliminaires aux religions orientales dans lrsquoempire romain
ExcIsr Excavations and Surveys in Israel
Expedition Expedition The Magazine of Archaeology Anthropology
FiE Forschungen in EphesosForschungen I -III Forschungen in Salona I Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institute
Gallia Gallia Fouilles et monuments archeacuteologiques en France metropolitaine
Habis Habis Universidad de Sevilla Arqueologiacutea filologiacutea claacutesica
Historia Historia Zeitschrift fuumlr Alte Geschichte
HistriaAnt Histria antiqua Casopis Međunarodnog Istraživačkog Centra za Arheologiju Journal of theInternational Research Centre for Archeology
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Iliria Iliria Revisteuml arkeologjike
IMT Paul Gauckler Inventaire des mosaiumlques de la Gaule et de lrsquoAfrique tome II AfriqueProconsulaire (Tunisie) Paris 1910 Suppleacutement Alfred Merlin Paris 1915
IstForsch Istanbuler Forschungen
IstMitt Istanbuler Mitteilungen
IvE Inschriften griechischer Staumldte aus Kleinasien
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JAT Journal of Ancient Topography - Rivista di topografia antica
JbAC Jahrbuch fuumlr Antike und Christentum
JbOumlByz Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JdI Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts
JHS The Journal of Hellenic Studies
JMR Journal of Mosaic Research
JOumlAI Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in WienJOumlB Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
JRS The Journal of Roman Studies
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
Klio Klio Beitraumlge zur alten Geschichte
Kokalos Kώκαλος Studi pubblicati dallacuteIstituto di storia antica dellacuteUniversitagrave di Palermo
KST Kazı Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxxii
LA Liber Annuus Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Jeacuterusalem
Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
Le Deacutecor II C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J-P DARMON S GOZLAN M-P RAYNAUDLe deacutecor geacuteomeacutetrique de la Mosaiumlque Romaine II Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif desdeacutecors centreacutes Paris 2002
LIMC Lexikon iconographicum mythologiae classicaeLLAuml Lexikon der AumlgyptologieLRAC Reallexikon fuumlr Antike und Christentum
LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Mainake Mainake Estudios de arqueologiacutea Malaguentildea
MEFR Melanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome
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Museacuteon Le Museacuteon Revue drsquoeacutetudes orientales
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PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Peristil Peristil Zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti
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QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine
RA Revue archeacuteologique
RACr Rivista di archeologia cristiana
RB Revue biblique
RBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen Kunst Begruumlndet von K Wessel und M Restle Herausgege-Herausgege-ben von M Restle (Stuttgart)
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RHVaud Revue historique vaudoise
StudMisc Peter Johnson - Roger Ling - David J Smith (ed) Fifth International Colloquium on AncientMosaics held at Bath England on September 5 ndash 12 Ann Arbor Michigan 1994 et 1995(Actes du Ve colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique) (JRA SupplementarySeries 9) (2 vol)
TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
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e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 659
1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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CIMOK1997 F Cimok Mosaics in Istambul Istanbul
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COLLEDGE 1994 MAR Colledge laquo Some remarks on the Edessa
Funerary Mosaics raquo CMGR IV Vienne 8-14 Aoucirct1994 Tregraveves Paris 189-197
COOL 1996 HEM Cool ldquoThe Boudican Uprising and the Glass
Vessels from Colchesterrdquo Expedition 382 52-62
DRIJVERS 1980 H J Drijvers Cults and Beliefs at Edessa Leiden
ELSNER 2009 J Elsner ldquoDouble Identity Orpheus as David Orpheus
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FRIEDMAN 1967 J B Friedman ldquoSyncretism and Allegory in the
Jerusalem Orpheus Mosaicrdquo Traditio 23 1-13
FRIEDMAN 1969 J B Friedman ldquoOrpheus in the Middle Agesrdquo Orpheus-
Christus in the Art of Late Antiquity Cambridge 1-36
GAREZOU 1992 M-X Garezou laquo Orpheus raquo in Lexicon Iconograficum
Mitologiae Classicae VII1(-2) 81-105
Gregory of Nyssa laquo Vie de Macrine raquo
HEALEY 2006
J F Healey ldquoA New Syriac Mosaic Inscriptionrdquo JSSLI2 313-327
JEFFREYS et al 2008 E Jeffreys ndash J Haldon ndash R Cormack The Oxford
Handbook of Byzantine Studies Oxford
JESNICK 1997 I Jesnick The Image of Orpheus in Roman Mosaic An
Exploration of the Figure of Orpheus in Graeco-Roman
Art and Culture with Special Reference to its Expression
in the Medium of MosaIc in Late Antiquity OxfordBAR International Series 671 nr 73 141
LAZREG 2002
N B Lazreg Image de pierre La Tunisie en mosaiumlqueA ben Abed-ben Khader (ed) Paris 488-490
LIDDEL ndash SCOTT 1940 HG Liddel ndash R Scott Greek-English Lexicon
Oxford
MICHAELIDES 1992 D Michaelides Cypriot Mosaics Nicosia
Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie 1989 Cataloguedrsquoexposition au Museacutee de la civilisation gallo-romainede Lyon Fevrier-Mai
MUCZNIK et al 2004 S Mucznik ndash A Ovadiah ndash Y Turnhaim Art in Eretz
Israel in Late Antiquity Collectanea Tel Aviv 193-208= OVADIAH A et MUCZNIK S 1981 ldquoOrpheus fromJerusalem ndash Pagan or Christian Imagerdquo The Jerusalem
Cathedra 1 Jerusalem 152-166
OLSZEWSKI 1995 M T Olszewski laquo Lrsquoimage et sa fonction dans la
mosaiumlque byzantine des premiegraveres basiliques en OrientLrsquoiconographie chreacutetienne expliqueacutee par Cyrille deJeacuterusalem (314-387) raquo CArch 43 9-35
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OLSZEWSKI 2000 M T Olszewski laquo Eacutevocation allusive des maximes des
Sept Sages A propos de la ldquoColegravere drsquoAchilleldquo sur lamosaiumlque de Meacuterida raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LI 37-46 pls IV-V
OLSZEWSKI 2001 MT Olszewski laquo Arteacutemidore mythologie et sym-
bolique funeacuteraire raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LII 39-60pls XI-XV
OLSZEWSKI 2001 M T Olszewski laquo Le langage symbolique dans
la deacutecoration agrave scegravenes mythologiques et sonsens dans les tombes peintes de lrsquoOrient romainNouvelle approche raquoVIIe Colloque de lrsquoAssociation
Internationale pour lrsquoeacutetude de la peinture antiqueSt-Romain-en-Gal 1998 Paris 2001 155-162 plsXXVI-XXIX
OLSZEWSKI 2001
M T Olszewski laquo Mauvais œil et protection contrelrsquoenvie dans la mosaiumlque de Cheikh Zouegravede au Sinaiuml(IV-Ve siegravecle) raquo D Paunier - C Schmidt (eds) Actes du VIIIegraveme Colloque International pour lrsquo eacutetude
de la Mosaiumlque Antique 1-2 Lausanne Cahiersdrsquoarcheacuteologie romande 276-301
OLSZEWSKI 2005 M T Olszewski ldquoThe Historical Background of the
Zodiac Mosaic Calendar in the Lower Synagogue atHammath-Tiberias raquo Newsletter of American Schools
of Oriental Research 55 nr 3 18
OLSZEWSKI 2005
M T Olszewski laquo Le statut de lrsquoimage selonArteacutemidore et lrsquoart romain raquo H Morlier (ed) Actes du
IX e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque
antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome novembre 2001 Rome Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome-352 II859-880
OLSZEWSKI 2006 M T Olszewski laquo La mosaiumlque de la Fecircte Nocturne
Pannychis de Shahba-Philippopolis et le teacutemoignagedrsquoArteacutemidore de Daldis (Onirocriticon II 61) raquo inKalathos Studies in Honour of Asher Ovadiah TelAviv ASSAPH 2005-2006 Studies in Art History vols10-11 381-390
OLSZEWSKI 2010 M T Olszewski laquo Images allusives Dionysos et Ariane
dans lrsquoespace reacuteserveacute aux femmes (gyneacuteceacutee) Le cas dePtoleacutemaiumls et Cyregravene en Libye raquo in I Bragantini edActes du X Congresso Internazionale AssociationInternationale pour la Peinture Murale AntiqueNeapol 17-21 septembre 2007 Annali di Archeologiae storia antica 181 315 321
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funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalem raquo Rey Mimoso-Ruiz BMimoso-Ruiz (ed) Actes du colloque laquo Orpheacutee entreSoleil et ombre raquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulouse du16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial
ndash mars 2008 205-214 226OLSZEWSKI 2009 M T Olszewski laquo Identification de cadrans solaires
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les morts dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute tardive EPHESS Collection
civilisations et socieacuteteacutes 115 ParisSEGAL 1959 J B Segal ldquoNew Mosaics from Edessardquo Archaeology
12 150-157
STONE 2006 M E Stone Apocrypha Pseudepigrapha and Armenian
Sudies Collected Papers Leuven
STRZYGOWSKI 1901 J Strzygowski ldquoDa Neuegefundene Orpheus Mosaik in
Jerusalemrdquo ZDPV 24 139-165
TUumlLEK 1998 F Tuumllek Efsuncu Orpheus ndash Orpheus the Magician
The Transition of Orpheus theme from Poganism toChristianity in late Roman-Early Byzantine MosaicsIstanbul
VIEILLEFON 2003 L Vieillefon La figure drsquoOrpheeacute dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute
tardive Les mutations drsquoun mythe du heacuteros paiumlen auchantre chreacutetien Paris De Boccard
VINCENT 1901 H Vincent laquo Une mosaiumlque byzantine agrave Jeacuterusalem raquo
RB 10 436-444
VINCENT 1902 H Vincent laquo La mosaiumlque drsquoOrpheacutee raquo RB 11
100-103
WOLFF 2000 E Wolff La poeacutesie funeacuteraire eacutepigraphique agrave Rome
Rennes
WREDE 1981 H Wrede Consecratio in formam deorumVergoumlttlich-
te Privatpersonen in der roumlmischen Kaiserzeit Mainz
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İccedilindekiler Table of Contentsx
Marek Titien Olszewski ndash Piotr Zakrzewski
e Decoration of the Dining Rooms at Ptolemais in Cyrenaica (Libya) in the Light of the Last Researches 665
Elda Omari
e History and Development of Mosaics in Albania (4th 3rd Century BC ndash 6 th Century AD) 675
Asher OvadiahConservative Approaches in the Ancient Synagogue Mosaic Pavements in Israele Cases of lsquoEin Gedi and SepphorisZippori 693
Ali Kazım Oumlz
e Mosaics of Metropolis in Ionia 701
Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
Building with Mosaics of Olympos Mosaics of Late Ancient Era ndash Early Byzantine Period 709
David Parrish - Birte Poulsen
Late Antique Tombs with Mosaics in Ancient Halikarnassos 721
Bernard ParzyszUne grande famille de deacutecors geacuteomeacutetriques 735
Silvia Pedone
e Marble Omphalos of Saint Sophia in Constantinople An Analysis of an Opus Sectile Pavement of Middle Byzantine Age 749
Claudia Pelosi ndash Ulderico Santamaria
e 6 th Century AD Floor Mosaic of the Church of Kuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Characterization of the Constitutive Materials Finding of the Quarries of Origin 769
Miguel Pessoa
Stibadium with a Mosaic in the Roman Villa of Rabaccedilal Penela Portugal 779Vania Popova ndash Alexander Lirsch
Corpus of Late Antique and Early Christian Mosaics in Bulgaria 793
Manuel Romero ndash Sebastiaacuten Vargas
Mosaic Workshop Located in the Villa de la Estacioacuten de Antequera Maacutelaga (Espantildea) 823
Idit Sagiv-Hayik
e Hellenistic Mosaic of Dor ndash Figural Image or eatrical Mask 829
Barış Salman
Reflection of Some Cults and Rituels on Mosaics and Reliefs in Osroene and Other Syrian Cultures 843
M Pilar San Nicolaacutes Pedraz
On a Mosaic from Maacutelaga with the Depiction of ZeusJupiter and Antiope 853
Derya Şahin
Myndos Mosaics 865
Y Selccediluk Şener
Mozaiklerin Korunmasında Temel Kriterler 873
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Alessandro Taddei
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of Saint Eirene at Constantinople 883
Giordana Trovabene
Knots of Lines like Weaves of reads A Corpus of Early Medieval Mosaics in ldquoVenetordquo 897
Fuumlsun Tuumlleke Bejewelled Lady of Sinope 921
Julia Valeva
Une riche domus de Stara Zagora ( Augusta Trajana-Beroe ) Publication preacuteliminaire 927
Zeev Weiss
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between East and West 941
Patricia Witts
Mosaic Studies and Souvenirs 953
Şehriguumll Yeşil-Erdek
Display of Ancient Mosaics Tourism as an Influential Factor Steering the Decision Making Process 963
Diklah Zohar
Application Procedures of Mosaics and the Division of Production Work Examples from Madaba Beth Alpha and Antioch 969
Hande Koumlkten
A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of Turkey Condition Survey of Mosaics 975
Hande Koumlkten
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as a Management Activity of Archaeological Sites 983
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BİLİMSEL PROGRAM SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
16 October 2009 Fr983145day
0900 - 1040 Open983145ng Ceremony OumlRDEKLİ COMPLEX
HALL A HALL B
Panel 1Moderator Dav983145d Parr983145sh
Panel 2Moderator Werner Jobst
1040 - 1100
La Fausse Iph983145geacuten983145e Dant983145oche Une Eacuten983145gme Enf983145n
ReacutesolueJean - P983145erre Darmon
Les Personn983145f983145cat983145ons Des Sa983145sons Sur Les MosaiumlquesTard983145ves (983145ve-v983145e S983145egravecles) De La Part983145e Or983145entale Du
Bass983145n Meacuted983145terraneacuteen (Turqu983145e Syr983145e Jordan983145ePalest983145ne)Anne-Soph983145e Deacutecr983145aud
1100 - 1120 Intrecc983145 d983145 l983145nee come trame d983145 f983145l983145 Per un corpus de983145mosa983145c983145 altomed983145eval983145 del VenetoG983145ordana Trovabene
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 3Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 4Moderator Anne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
1215 - 1235 Reflect983145on of Cults and R983145tuels on Mosa983145cs andRel983145efs 983145n Osroene and Other Syr983145an CulturesBarış Salman
Aspects Of Euerget983145sm And Soc983145o Econom983145c ForcesIn Byzant983145ne And Early Islam983145c Mosa983145cs In JordanBasema Hamarneh
1235 - 1255Les Pavements des Thermes Agraversquo octogone De PupputAiumlcha Ben Abed - Roger Hanoune
Mosa983145c Decorat983145on 983145n C983145v983145c Context Late ant983145quepavements from PergeIşıl R Işıklıkaya
1255 - 1315
Derec983145k Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacutegl983145se pour deuxmosaiumlquesM983145chel E FuchsSoph983145e Delbarre-Baumlrtsch983145
Bursa Moza983145kler983145Recep Okccedilu
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
HALL A HALL B
Panel 5Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 6Moderator Aiumlcha Ben Abed
1500 - 1520The VI th century floor mosa983145c of the church ofKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Mar983145a Andaloro - Paola Pogl983145an983145
Erz983145ncan - Altıntepe K983145l983145se Moza983145kler983145B983145rol Can
1520 - 1540The Bas983145l983145ca Of Ag983145o983145 Sarantak983145rklar Tekke In CyprusAnd Its Mosa983145csAndreas Foul983145as
D983145onysos et la mer les mosaiumlques agrave lrsquoeacutepoquehelleacuten983145st983145que et au deacutebut de lrsquoeacutepoque 983145mpeacuter983145aleAnne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexiv
1540 - 1600Early Byzant983145ne Mosa983145cs W983145th Person983145f983145cat983145ons FromTurkey And Syr983145aChr983145st983145ne Kondoleon
El Mosa983145co Pav983145mental De La Basiacutel983145ca De L983145lla Del Re983145G983145sela R983145poll Catal983145na MasM983145guel Aacutengel Cau
1600 - 1620Corpus Of Late Ant983145que And Early Chr983145st983145an Mosa983145csIn Bulgar983145aAlexander L983145rsch
Mosa983145cs In Ant983145och A Morpholog983145cal Observat983145onD983145klah Zohar
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630 - 1640 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 7Moderator Mar983145a Andaloro
Panel 8Moderator B983145rol Can
1640 - 1700Pompe983145opol983145s ( Taşkoumlpruuml )Lu983145sa Musso
La Produz983145one Pav983145mentale Pugl983145ese Tra Tardoant983145coE Med983145oevo Evoluz983145one Tecn983145ca E St983145l983145st983145caCarr983145no Rachele
1700 - 1720La ma983145son des deux l983145ons agrave CarthageAiumlcha Ben-AbedBen Khader - Cather983145ne Balmelle
Putt983145ng In Context Two Mosa983145cs Of Okeanos AndThalassaDelph983145ne Renaut
1720 - 1740
1740 - 1800 DISCUSSION
1900 - 2200 DINNER Mevlev983145 Presentat983145on
17 October 2009 Saturday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 9Moderator Luisa Musso
Panel 10Moderator Asuman Baldıran
0900 - 0920New Mosaics at the Colonia Patricia CordubaFrancesc Josep de Rueda Roigeacute
Parallel Research Fresco Painting Of Chora AndSopocani Violeta C OcokoljicJugoslav Ocokoljic
0920 - 0940Sailing in the Dead Sea - Madaba Map MosaicZaraza Friedman
Mosaique funeacuteraire drsquoOrpheacutee de Jerusalem auMuseacutee Archeacuteologique drsquoIstanbul CompleacutementdrsquoenquecircteMarek Titien Olszewski
0940 - 1000Literary References on Three Roman MosaicPanelsSarah E Cox
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implicationsfor Other RegionsRuth Kolarik
1000 - 1020I Mosaici delle Basiliche Paleocristianedellrsquoisola di CosLorella Maria De Matteis
The Marble Floor Decoration in ConstantinopleProlegomen to a Corpus Alessandra Guiglia
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 11Moderator Derya Şahin
Panel 12Moderator Zaraza Friedman
1040 - 1100
Conservative Approaches In The SynagogueMosaic Pavements In Israel The Cases Of lsquoeinGedi And Sepphoris Zippori Asher Ovadiah
Theatre and Art Mosaics as Evidence forDramatic PerformanceKatherine Dunbabin
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xv
1100 - 1020Late Antique Tombs With Mosaics In AncientHalikarnassosDavid Parrish - Birte Poulsen
A Propos Des Opus Sectile Deacutecouverts Dans LaMaison Du Cours Pourtoules (orange-vaucluse)Eric Morvillez
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 13Moderator Birte Poulsen
Panel 14Moderator Asher Ovadiah
1215 - 1235The Mosaic Pavement of the Early ChristianBasilica At GoumlnenGerme In Mysia laquoHellespontraquoWerner Jobst
Oriental motifs and patterns in the mosaic art ofTarragonaRosario Navarro
1235 - 1255The Vith Century Floor Mosaic Of The Church OfKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) Ulderico Santamaria - Claudia Pelosi
The Marble Omphalos Of The St Sophia OfConstantinople Analysis Of An Opus SectilePavement Of The Middle Byzantine PeriodSilvia Pedone
1255 - 1315Torba Manastır Kompleksi Mozaikleri M Aykut Oumlzet
The Marble Floor Of St John Studius InConstantinople A Forgotten MasterpieceClaudia Barsanti
1315 - 1330Sardisrsquoteki Geccedil Roma-Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaikleriEmine Tok
Mylasa Mozaikleri Abuzer Kızıl
1330 - 1345 DISCUSSION
1400 - 2200 DERECİK ( BUumlYUumlKORHAN ) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
18 October 2009 Sunday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 15Moderator Hakan Mert
Panel 16Moderator Michel E Fuchs
0900 - 0920Basic Criteria for the Preservation of Mosaics AGuide for Archaeologists ISelccediluk Şener
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between Eastand WestZeev Weiss
0920 - 0940
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as aManagement Activity of Archaeological Sites AGuide for Archaeologists IIHande Koumlkten
Une Grande Famille de Deacutecors GeacuteomeacutetriquesBernard Parzysz
0940 - 1000
Display of Ancient Mosaics İn Situ Tourism as anInuential Factor Steering the Decision MakingProcessŞehriguumll Yeşil Erdek
Mosaicos Mitoloacutegicos de Zeugma Y de Hispania Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
1000 - 1020 A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of TurkeyCondition Survey of MosaicsHande Koumlkten
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of SaintEirene at Constantinople Alessandro Taddei
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 2200 IZNIK (NICEA) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexvi
19 October 2009 Monday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 17Moderator Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Panel 18Moderator Veronika Scheibelreiter
0900 - 0920Signs of the Progression of Time in RomanMosaic ArtMaja Kramer
Une Nouvelle Mosaiumlque sur lrsquooppidum drsquoAlegraves(Gard France) Veacuteronique Blanc- BijonFabienne Olmer
0920 - 0940 Antikccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At Ikonograsi Emine Koumlker
The Latest Archaeological Discoveries about theMediana MosaicsGordana Jeremic
0940 - 1000New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa ATorre Annunziata ItalyJohn R Clarke - Lea Cline
Architekturdarstellungen auf roumlmischen MosaikenKleinasienHakan Mert
1000 - 1020Late Antiquity Mosaics in Portugal Virgilio Lopez
Orpheus Some Metaphors in MosaicNeil Cookson
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 19Moderator Selccediluk Şener
Panel 20Moderator Patricia Witts
1040 - 1100Opus Sectile Pavements From Western AsiaMinor Veronika Scheibelreiter
The First Roman Mosaics Discovered in CetobrigaCarlos Tavares da Silva - Joaquina Soares -Liciacutenia Wrench
1100 - 1020
Indagini Archeologiche A Palazzo ValentiniunQuartiere Residenziale Ai Margini Del ForoTraianoPaola Baldassarri
Olympos Mozaikli YapıGeccedil Antik Ccedilağ - Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaiklerinin Teknik ve Stil Değerlendirmesi Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 21Moderator Hande Koumlkten
Panel 22Moderator Liciacutenia Wrench
1215 - 1235Mosaic Studies And Souvenirs Leaving no StoneUnturnedPatricia Witts
The Mosaic of Leukippe and Theonoe in theKointos Villa in ZeugmaPaolo Vitellozzi
1235 - 1255Notice Mosaic of laquothe House of Medusaraquo(portugal Alter do Chatildeo)Maria Teresa Caetano
Metropolis Mozaikleri Ali Kazım Oumlz
1255 - 1315 Zeugma Danae Evinin MozaikleriMehmet Oumlnal
Mosaicos Con la Iconograa de Thethismadre
de Aquiles en Turquia Y en Otros Enclaves delImperio RomanoMercedes Duran Penedo
1315 - 1330 LUNCH
1330 - 1530 AIEMA MEETING
DISENGAGED DINNER
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20 October 2009 Tuesday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 23Moderator Mehmet Onal
Panel 24Moderator Paolo Vitellozzi
0900 - 0920De Que Hablamos Cuando Hablamos de TalleresMusivos Tardios en HispaniaMercedes Torres Carro
The Bejewelled Lady of SinopeFuumlsun Tuumllek
0920 - 0940 A new reading of the Dor mosaicIdit Sagiv-Hayik
Milli Azerbaycan Tarihi Muumlzesinde Hristyan AbideleriFariz Halilli
0940 - 1000Konya Tatkoumly ve Alibeykoumly Houmlyuumlğuuml Mozaikleri Asuman Baldıran- Osman Doğanay
Salamis Kenti Opus Sectile Taban Doumlşemeleri Aytaccedil Coşkun
1000 - 1020Il Mosaico di Metiochos E Parthenope da ZeugmaLucia Romizzi - Andrea Carini
Non-Destructive Investigations on Mosaic of theChurch of the Three HierarchsM Geba - N Vornicu - C Bibire
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 25Moderator Işıl R Işıklıkaya
Panel 26Moderator Luz Neira
1040 - 1100
Late Antique Private Luxury The Mosaic FloorsOf The Urban Mansion Of Sagalassos (ağlasunBurdur)Inge Uytterhoeven - Hande Koumlkten - MarcWaelkens - Markku Corremans
The Role of Late Antique Art in Early ChristianWorship A Reconsideration of the Iconographyof The lsquostarry Skyrsquo in Mosaics of the Late 5th -Early 6th C AdEllen Swift - Anne Alwis
1100 - 1020The Early Christian Mosaics with the Inscriptionsin CroatiaMarija Buzov
La Construccioacuten de las identidades de geacutenero atraveacutes de los mosaicos antioquenosJesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 27Moderator Marija Buzov
Panel 28Moderator Maja Kramer
1215 - 1235Kaunos Kubbeli Kilise Ek Yapısırsquondaki TabanMozaiği Ayşe Aydın
El Thiasos Marino en los Mosaicos Romanos deTurquiacuteaLuz Neira
1235 - 1255
The Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics Bugini RobertoFolli Luisa Portulano BrunellaRofa Elisabetta
A stibadium with a mosaic in the Roman Villa ofRabaccedilal Penela PortugalMiguel Pessoa
1255 - 1315
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romainede Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de AlgarveMaria De Jesus Duran Kremer
Mosaiumlques mythologiques de Zeugma Originaliteacuteet Liens iconographiques avec la peinturepompeacuteienne et les mosaiumlques italiques etafricains du I-II siegravecleLucia Romizzi
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
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HALL A HALL B
Panel 29Moderator Maria Kremer
Panel 30Moderator Miguel Pessoa
1500 - 1520
The Vases Representation (cantharus Crater)on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Signicant
Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late AntiquityFilomena Limatildeo
The Rape of Hylas and the Spectacles of the Amphitheatre on a Floor Mosaic from Volubilis
(Morocco)Margherita Carucci
1520 - 1540The Herakles mosaic discovered in Homs (Syria)Komait Abdallah
Myndos MosaicsDerya Şahin
1540 - 1600Les Mosaiumlques Agrave Thegraveme MythologiqueReacutecemment Deacutecouvertes Agrave NicircmesJean-yves Breuil
A Late Antique Residence in Augusta TraianaProvince of ThraceJulia Valeva
1600 - 1620Floor mosaics from a Roman villa in NinJagoda Meder
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of ItalicaFirmament ImagesIrene Mantildeas Romero
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630FREE TIME- BURSA -
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KISALTMALAR ABBREVIATIONS
AA Archaeologischer Anzeiger
Abulg Archaeologia Bulgarica
Acontia Acontia Revista de arqueologiacutea
ActaInstRomFin Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae
AEspA Archivo espantildeol de arqueologiacutea
AISCOM LrsquoAssociazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico
AJA American Journal of Archaelology
AJug Archaeologia JugoslavicaAM Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts Athenische Abteilung
AMethTh Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
AMS Asia Minor Studien
AnatoliaA Anatolia Antiqua
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der roumlmischen Welt
AnSt Anatolian Studies
AntAfr Antiquiteacutes africaines
AntigCr Antiguumledad y Cristianismo Monografiacuteas histoacutericas sobre la antiguumledad tardiacutea
AntK Antike Kunst
AntTard Antiquiteacute tardive Revue internationale drsquohistoire et drsquoarcheacuteologie
APregl Arheološki pregled Arheološko društvo JugoslavijeAquilNost Aquileia nostra Bollettino dellrsquoAssociazione nazionale per Aquileia
ArchCl Archeologia classica
Archeologia Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Published by the Society ofAntiquaries of London
ArtB The Art Bulletin
ASSAPH Assaph Studies in Art History
AST Araştırma Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
Atiqot Atiqot Journal of the Israel Department of Antiquities
AttiMemIstria Atti e memorie della Societagrave istriana di archeologia e storia patria
AW Antike Welt Zeitschrift fuumlr Archaumlologie und Kulturgeschichte
BAA Bulletin drsquoarcheologie algerienneBABesch Bulletin antieke beschaving Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology
BAcHist Boletiacuten de la Real academia de la historia
Baetica Baetica Estudios de arte geografiacutea e historia
BAR British Archaeological Reports British Series
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BCH Bulletin de correspondance helleacutenique
BCom Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma
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BCTH Bulletin archeacuteologique du Comiteacute des travaux historiques et scientifiques Paris
BdA Bollettino drsquoarte
BEFAR Bibliothegraveque des Ecoles franccedilaises drsquoAthegravenes et de Rome
Belleten Belleten Tuumlrk Tarih Kurumu
BJb Bonner Jahrbuumlcher des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn
BMQ The British Museum Quarterly BMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
Boreas Boreas Muumlnstersche Beitraumlge zur Archaumlologie
BSA The British school of Archaeology at Athens
BSEAA Boletin del Seminario de estudios de arte y arqueologia
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
BT Babylonian Talmud
BullAIEMA Bulletin de lrsquoAssociation internationale pour lrsquoetude de la mosaique antique
BullMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
CArch Cahiers archeacuteologiques
CEDAC CEDAC Bulletin Centre drsquoeacutetudes et de documentation archeacuteologique de la conservation deCartage
CEFR Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome
Chiron Chiron Mitteilungen der Kommission fuumlr Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des DeutschenArchaumlologischen Instituts
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
ClJ The Classical Journal
CMG Convegni di studi sulla Magna Grecia
CMGR I La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane I H STERN - G Ch PICARD (eds) Paris 1965 (Actes du Iercolloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Paris 30 aoucirct-3 septembre 1963)
CMGR II La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane II H STERN - M LE GAY (eds) Paris 1975 (Actes du IIe
colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Vienne-Isegravere 30 aoucirct-4septembre 1971)
CMGR III III Colloquio internazionale sul mosaico antico R FARIOLI CAMPANATI (eacuted) Ravenna1983 (Actes du IIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Ravenna6-10 septembre 1980)
CMGR IV La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane IV J -P DARMON - A REBOURG (eds) Paris 1994 (Actesdu IVe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique TregravevesTrier 8-14 aoucirct1984)
CMGR V Fifth Interneational Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics 1 - 2 P Johnson R Ling D J Smith(eds) Ann Arbor M1 1994 and 1995 (Actes du V e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de lamosaiumlque antique Bath 5-12 septembre 1987) (JRA supp9)
CMGR VI VI Col loquio internacional s obre mosaico ant iquo Palenc ia-Meacuterida Octubre 199 0D Fernandez GALIANO (ed) Guadalajara 1994 (Actes du VIe colloque international pour
lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Palencia-Meacuterida octobre 1990)CMGR VII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VII M ENNAIFER - A REBOURG (eds) Tunis 1999 (Actes
du VIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Tunis 3-7 octobre 1994)
CMGR VIII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VIII D PAUNNIER - Chr SCHMIDT (eds) Lausanne 2001(Actes du VIIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevaleLausanne 6-11 octobre 1997) Cahiers drsquoArcheacuteologie Romande 85-86
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviations xxi
CMGR IX La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine IX Heacutelegravene MORLIER (eacuted) Rome 2005 (Actes du IXe colloqueinternational pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome Eacutecole franccedilaisePalazzo Altemps 5 ndash 10 novembre 2001) (Coll EFR 352) (2 vol)
CMGR X La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine X (in Publised)
CMGR XI XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve AntikDoumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi Mozaiklerin Başlan-gıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi Stil ve Teknik uumlzerine Sorular 11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS Mosaics of Turkey andParallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World Questions ofIconography Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late ByzantineEra Mustafa ŞAHİN (Ed) Bursa 2009 (İstanbul 2011)
DNP Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopaumldie der Antike
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Empuacuteries Empuacuteries Revista de prehistograveria arqueologia i etnologia
EPRO Etudes preacuteliminaires aux religions orientales dans lrsquoempire romain
ExcIsr Excavations and Surveys in Israel
Expedition Expedition The Magazine of Archaeology Anthropology
FiE Forschungen in EphesosForschungen I -III Forschungen in Salona I Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institute
Gallia Gallia Fouilles et monuments archeacuteologiques en France metropolitaine
Habis Habis Universidad de Sevilla Arqueologiacutea filologiacutea claacutesica
Historia Historia Zeitschrift fuumlr Alte Geschichte
HistriaAnt Histria antiqua Casopis Međunarodnog Istraživačkog Centra za Arheologiju Journal of theInternational Research Centre for Archeology
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Iliria Iliria Revisteuml arkeologjike
IMT Paul Gauckler Inventaire des mosaiumlques de la Gaule et de lrsquoAfrique tome II AfriqueProconsulaire (Tunisie) Paris 1910 Suppleacutement Alfred Merlin Paris 1915
IstForsch Istanbuler Forschungen
IstMitt Istanbuler Mitteilungen
IvE Inschriften griechischer Staumldte aus Kleinasien
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JAT Journal of Ancient Topography - Rivista di topografia antica
JbAC Jahrbuch fuumlr Antike und Christentum
JbOumlByz Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JdI Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts
JHS The Journal of Hellenic Studies
JMR Journal of Mosaic Research
JOumlAI Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in WienJOumlB Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
JRS The Journal of Roman Studies
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
Klio Klio Beitraumlge zur alten Geschichte
Kokalos Kώκαλος Studi pubblicati dallacuteIstituto di storia antica dellacuteUniversitagrave di Palermo
KST Kazı Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxxii
LA Liber Annuus Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Jeacuterusalem
Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
Le Deacutecor II C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J-P DARMON S GOZLAN M-P RAYNAUDLe deacutecor geacuteomeacutetrique de la Mosaiumlque Romaine II Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif desdeacutecors centreacutes Paris 2002
LIMC Lexikon iconographicum mythologiae classicaeLLAuml Lexikon der AumlgyptologieLRAC Reallexikon fuumlr Antike und Christentum
LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Mainake Mainake Estudios de arqueologiacutea Malaguentildea
MEFR Melanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome
MEFRA Meacutelanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome Antiquiteacute
MEFRM Meacutelanges de lrsquoEacutecole Franccedilaise de Rome Moyen Age
MitChrA Mitteilungen zur christlichen Archaumlologie
MKKS Muumlze Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu
MM Madrider Mitteilungen
Museacuteon Le Museacuteon Revue drsquoeacutetudes orientales
OumlJh Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in Wien
OpArch Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom Opuscula archaeologica
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Peristil Peristil Zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti
PriloziZagreb Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu
QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine
RA Revue archeacuteologique
RACr Rivista di archeologia cristiana
RB Revue biblique
RBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen Kunst Begruumlndet von K Wessel und M Restle Herausgege-Herausgege-ben von M Restle (Stuttgart)
RCHM Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
RHVaud Revue historique vaudoise
StudMisc Peter Johnson - Roger Ling - David J Smith (ed) Fifth International Colloquium on AncientMosaics held at Bath England on September 5 ndash 12 Ann Arbor Michigan 1994 et 1995(Actes du Ve colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique) (JRA SupplementarySeries 9) (2 vol)
TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
Traditio Traditio Studies in Ancient and Medieval History Thought and Religion
TuumlrkAD Tuumlrk Arkeoloji Dergisi
WO Die Welt des Orients
ZDPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaumlstina-Vereins
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Marek Titien OLSZEWSKI
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 659
1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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Marek Titien Olszewski662
was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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İccedilindekiler Table of Contents xi
Alessandro Taddei
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of Saint Eirene at Constantinople 883
Giordana Trovabene
Knots of Lines like Weaves of reads A Corpus of Early Medieval Mosaics in ldquoVenetordquo 897
Fuumlsun Tuumlleke Bejewelled Lady of Sinope 921
Julia Valeva
Une riche domus de Stara Zagora ( Augusta Trajana-Beroe ) Publication preacuteliminaire 927
Zeev Weiss
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between East and West 941
Patricia Witts
Mosaic Studies and Souvenirs 953
Şehriguumll Yeşil-Erdek
Display of Ancient Mosaics Tourism as an Influential Factor Steering the Decision Making Process 963
Diklah Zohar
Application Procedures of Mosaics and the Division of Production Work Examples from Madaba Beth Alpha and Antioch 969
Hande Koumlkten
A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of Turkey Condition Survey of Mosaics 975
Hande Koumlkten
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as a Management Activity of Archaeological Sites 983
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BİLİMSEL PROGRAM SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
16 October 2009 Fr983145day
0900 - 1040 Open983145ng Ceremony OumlRDEKLİ COMPLEX
HALL A HALL B
Panel 1Moderator Dav983145d Parr983145sh
Panel 2Moderator Werner Jobst
1040 - 1100
La Fausse Iph983145geacuten983145e Dant983145oche Une Eacuten983145gme Enf983145n
ReacutesolueJean - P983145erre Darmon
Les Personn983145f983145cat983145ons Des Sa983145sons Sur Les MosaiumlquesTard983145ves (983145ve-v983145e S983145egravecles) De La Part983145e Or983145entale Du
Bass983145n Meacuted983145terraneacuteen (Turqu983145e Syr983145e Jordan983145ePalest983145ne)Anne-Soph983145e Deacutecr983145aud
1100 - 1120 Intrecc983145 d983145 l983145nee come trame d983145 f983145l983145 Per un corpus de983145mosa983145c983145 altomed983145eval983145 del VenetoG983145ordana Trovabene
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 3Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 4Moderator Anne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
1215 - 1235 Reflect983145on of Cults and R983145tuels on Mosa983145cs andRel983145efs 983145n Osroene and Other Syr983145an CulturesBarış Salman
Aspects Of Euerget983145sm And Soc983145o Econom983145c ForcesIn Byzant983145ne And Early Islam983145c Mosa983145cs In JordanBasema Hamarneh
1235 - 1255Les Pavements des Thermes Agraversquo octogone De PupputAiumlcha Ben Abed - Roger Hanoune
Mosa983145c Decorat983145on 983145n C983145v983145c Context Late ant983145quepavements from PergeIşıl R Işıklıkaya
1255 - 1315
Derec983145k Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacutegl983145se pour deuxmosaiumlquesM983145chel E FuchsSoph983145e Delbarre-Baumlrtsch983145
Bursa Moza983145kler983145Recep Okccedilu
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
HALL A HALL B
Panel 5Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 6Moderator Aiumlcha Ben Abed
1500 - 1520The VI th century floor mosa983145c of the church ofKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Mar983145a Andaloro - Paola Pogl983145an983145
Erz983145ncan - Altıntepe K983145l983145se Moza983145kler983145B983145rol Can
1520 - 1540The Bas983145l983145ca Of Ag983145o983145 Sarantak983145rklar Tekke In CyprusAnd Its Mosa983145csAndreas Foul983145as
D983145onysos et la mer les mosaiumlques agrave lrsquoeacutepoquehelleacuten983145st983145que et au deacutebut de lrsquoeacutepoque 983145mpeacuter983145aleAnne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexiv
1540 - 1600Early Byzant983145ne Mosa983145cs W983145th Person983145f983145cat983145ons FromTurkey And Syr983145aChr983145st983145ne Kondoleon
El Mosa983145co Pav983145mental De La Basiacutel983145ca De L983145lla Del Re983145G983145sela R983145poll Catal983145na MasM983145guel Aacutengel Cau
1600 - 1620Corpus Of Late Ant983145que And Early Chr983145st983145an Mosa983145csIn Bulgar983145aAlexander L983145rsch
Mosa983145cs In Ant983145och A Morpholog983145cal Observat983145onD983145klah Zohar
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630 - 1640 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 7Moderator Mar983145a Andaloro
Panel 8Moderator B983145rol Can
1640 - 1700Pompe983145opol983145s ( Taşkoumlpruuml )Lu983145sa Musso
La Produz983145one Pav983145mentale Pugl983145ese Tra Tardoant983145coE Med983145oevo Evoluz983145one Tecn983145ca E St983145l983145st983145caCarr983145no Rachele
1700 - 1720La ma983145son des deux l983145ons agrave CarthageAiumlcha Ben-AbedBen Khader - Cather983145ne Balmelle
Putt983145ng In Context Two Mosa983145cs Of Okeanos AndThalassaDelph983145ne Renaut
1720 - 1740
1740 - 1800 DISCUSSION
1900 - 2200 DINNER Mevlev983145 Presentat983145on
17 October 2009 Saturday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 9Moderator Luisa Musso
Panel 10Moderator Asuman Baldıran
0900 - 0920New Mosaics at the Colonia Patricia CordubaFrancesc Josep de Rueda Roigeacute
Parallel Research Fresco Painting Of Chora AndSopocani Violeta C OcokoljicJugoslav Ocokoljic
0920 - 0940Sailing in the Dead Sea - Madaba Map MosaicZaraza Friedman
Mosaique funeacuteraire drsquoOrpheacutee de Jerusalem auMuseacutee Archeacuteologique drsquoIstanbul CompleacutementdrsquoenquecircteMarek Titien Olszewski
0940 - 1000Literary References on Three Roman MosaicPanelsSarah E Cox
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implicationsfor Other RegionsRuth Kolarik
1000 - 1020I Mosaici delle Basiliche Paleocristianedellrsquoisola di CosLorella Maria De Matteis
The Marble Floor Decoration in ConstantinopleProlegomen to a Corpus Alessandra Guiglia
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 11Moderator Derya Şahin
Panel 12Moderator Zaraza Friedman
1040 - 1100
Conservative Approaches In The SynagogueMosaic Pavements In Israel The Cases Of lsquoeinGedi And Sepphoris Zippori Asher Ovadiah
Theatre and Art Mosaics as Evidence forDramatic PerformanceKatherine Dunbabin
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xv
1100 - 1020Late Antique Tombs With Mosaics In AncientHalikarnassosDavid Parrish - Birte Poulsen
A Propos Des Opus Sectile Deacutecouverts Dans LaMaison Du Cours Pourtoules (orange-vaucluse)Eric Morvillez
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 13Moderator Birte Poulsen
Panel 14Moderator Asher Ovadiah
1215 - 1235The Mosaic Pavement of the Early ChristianBasilica At GoumlnenGerme In Mysia laquoHellespontraquoWerner Jobst
Oriental motifs and patterns in the mosaic art ofTarragonaRosario Navarro
1235 - 1255The Vith Century Floor Mosaic Of The Church OfKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) Ulderico Santamaria - Claudia Pelosi
The Marble Omphalos Of The St Sophia OfConstantinople Analysis Of An Opus SectilePavement Of The Middle Byzantine PeriodSilvia Pedone
1255 - 1315Torba Manastır Kompleksi Mozaikleri M Aykut Oumlzet
The Marble Floor Of St John Studius InConstantinople A Forgotten MasterpieceClaudia Barsanti
1315 - 1330Sardisrsquoteki Geccedil Roma-Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaikleriEmine Tok
Mylasa Mozaikleri Abuzer Kızıl
1330 - 1345 DISCUSSION
1400 - 2200 DERECİK ( BUumlYUumlKORHAN ) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
18 October 2009 Sunday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 15Moderator Hakan Mert
Panel 16Moderator Michel E Fuchs
0900 - 0920Basic Criteria for the Preservation of Mosaics AGuide for Archaeologists ISelccediluk Şener
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between Eastand WestZeev Weiss
0920 - 0940
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as aManagement Activity of Archaeological Sites AGuide for Archaeologists IIHande Koumlkten
Une Grande Famille de Deacutecors GeacuteomeacutetriquesBernard Parzysz
0940 - 1000
Display of Ancient Mosaics İn Situ Tourism as anInuential Factor Steering the Decision MakingProcessŞehriguumll Yeşil Erdek
Mosaicos Mitoloacutegicos de Zeugma Y de Hispania Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
1000 - 1020 A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of TurkeyCondition Survey of MosaicsHande Koumlkten
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of SaintEirene at Constantinople Alessandro Taddei
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 2200 IZNIK (NICEA) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
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19 October 2009 Monday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 17Moderator Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Panel 18Moderator Veronika Scheibelreiter
0900 - 0920Signs of the Progression of Time in RomanMosaic ArtMaja Kramer
Une Nouvelle Mosaiumlque sur lrsquooppidum drsquoAlegraves(Gard France) Veacuteronique Blanc- BijonFabienne Olmer
0920 - 0940 Antikccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At Ikonograsi Emine Koumlker
The Latest Archaeological Discoveries about theMediana MosaicsGordana Jeremic
0940 - 1000New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa ATorre Annunziata ItalyJohn R Clarke - Lea Cline
Architekturdarstellungen auf roumlmischen MosaikenKleinasienHakan Mert
1000 - 1020Late Antiquity Mosaics in Portugal Virgilio Lopez
Orpheus Some Metaphors in MosaicNeil Cookson
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 19Moderator Selccediluk Şener
Panel 20Moderator Patricia Witts
1040 - 1100Opus Sectile Pavements From Western AsiaMinor Veronika Scheibelreiter
The First Roman Mosaics Discovered in CetobrigaCarlos Tavares da Silva - Joaquina Soares -Liciacutenia Wrench
1100 - 1020
Indagini Archeologiche A Palazzo ValentiniunQuartiere Residenziale Ai Margini Del ForoTraianoPaola Baldassarri
Olympos Mozaikli YapıGeccedil Antik Ccedilağ - Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaiklerinin Teknik ve Stil Değerlendirmesi Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 21Moderator Hande Koumlkten
Panel 22Moderator Liciacutenia Wrench
1215 - 1235Mosaic Studies And Souvenirs Leaving no StoneUnturnedPatricia Witts
The Mosaic of Leukippe and Theonoe in theKointos Villa in ZeugmaPaolo Vitellozzi
1235 - 1255Notice Mosaic of laquothe House of Medusaraquo(portugal Alter do Chatildeo)Maria Teresa Caetano
Metropolis Mozaikleri Ali Kazım Oumlz
1255 - 1315 Zeugma Danae Evinin MozaikleriMehmet Oumlnal
Mosaicos Con la Iconograa de Thethismadre
de Aquiles en Turquia Y en Otros Enclaves delImperio RomanoMercedes Duran Penedo
1315 - 1330 LUNCH
1330 - 1530 AIEMA MEETING
DISENGAGED DINNER
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20 October 2009 Tuesday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 23Moderator Mehmet Onal
Panel 24Moderator Paolo Vitellozzi
0900 - 0920De Que Hablamos Cuando Hablamos de TalleresMusivos Tardios en HispaniaMercedes Torres Carro
The Bejewelled Lady of SinopeFuumlsun Tuumllek
0920 - 0940 A new reading of the Dor mosaicIdit Sagiv-Hayik
Milli Azerbaycan Tarihi Muumlzesinde Hristyan AbideleriFariz Halilli
0940 - 1000Konya Tatkoumly ve Alibeykoumly Houmlyuumlğuuml Mozaikleri Asuman Baldıran- Osman Doğanay
Salamis Kenti Opus Sectile Taban Doumlşemeleri Aytaccedil Coşkun
1000 - 1020Il Mosaico di Metiochos E Parthenope da ZeugmaLucia Romizzi - Andrea Carini
Non-Destructive Investigations on Mosaic of theChurch of the Three HierarchsM Geba - N Vornicu - C Bibire
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 25Moderator Işıl R Işıklıkaya
Panel 26Moderator Luz Neira
1040 - 1100
Late Antique Private Luxury The Mosaic FloorsOf The Urban Mansion Of Sagalassos (ağlasunBurdur)Inge Uytterhoeven - Hande Koumlkten - MarcWaelkens - Markku Corremans
The Role of Late Antique Art in Early ChristianWorship A Reconsideration of the Iconographyof The lsquostarry Skyrsquo in Mosaics of the Late 5th -Early 6th C AdEllen Swift - Anne Alwis
1100 - 1020The Early Christian Mosaics with the Inscriptionsin CroatiaMarija Buzov
La Construccioacuten de las identidades de geacutenero atraveacutes de los mosaicos antioquenosJesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 27Moderator Marija Buzov
Panel 28Moderator Maja Kramer
1215 - 1235Kaunos Kubbeli Kilise Ek Yapısırsquondaki TabanMozaiği Ayşe Aydın
El Thiasos Marino en los Mosaicos Romanos deTurquiacuteaLuz Neira
1235 - 1255
The Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics Bugini RobertoFolli Luisa Portulano BrunellaRofa Elisabetta
A stibadium with a mosaic in the Roman Villa ofRabaccedilal Penela PortugalMiguel Pessoa
1255 - 1315
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romainede Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de AlgarveMaria De Jesus Duran Kremer
Mosaiumlques mythologiques de Zeugma Originaliteacuteet Liens iconographiques avec la peinturepompeacuteienne et les mosaiumlques italiques etafricains du I-II siegravecleLucia Romizzi
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
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HALL A HALL B
Panel 29Moderator Maria Kremer
Panel 30Moderator Miguel Pessoa
1500 - 1520
The Vases Representation (cantharus Crater)on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Signicant
Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late AntiquityFilomena Limatildeo
The Rape of Hylas and the Spectacles of the Amphitheatre on a Floor Mosaic from Volubilis
(Morocco)Margherita Carucci
1520 - 1540The Herakles mosaic discovered in Homs (Syria)Komait Abdallah
Myndos MosaicsDerya Şahin
1540 - 1600Les Mosaiumlques Agrave Thegraveme MythologiqueReacutecemment Deacutecouvertes Agrave NicircmesJean-yves Breuil
A Late Antique Residence in Augusta TraianaProvince of ThraceJulia Valeva
1600 - 1620Floor mosaics from a Roman villa in NinJagoda Meder
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of ItalicaFirmament ImagesIrene Mantildeas Romero
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630FREE TIME- BURSA -
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KISALTMALAR ABBREVIATIONS
AA Archaeologischer Anzeiger
Abulg Archaeologia Bulgarica
Acontia Acontia Revista de arqueologiacutea
ActaInstRomFin Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae
AEspA Archivo espantildeol de arqueologiacutea
AISCOM LrsquoAssociazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico
AJA American Journal of Archaelology
AJug Archaeologia JugoslavicaAM Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts Athenische Abteilung
AMethTh Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
AMS Asia Minor Studien
AnatoliaA Anatolia Antiqua
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der roumlmischen Welt
AnSt Anatolian Studies
AntAfr Antiquiteacutes africaines
AntigCr Antiguumledad y Cristianismo Monografiacuteas histoacutericas sobre la antiguumledad tardiacutea
AntK Antike Kunst
AntTard Antiquiteacute tardive Revue internationale drsquohistoire et drsquoarcheacuteologie
APregl Arheološki pregled Arheološko društvo JugoslavijeAquilNost Aquileia nostra Bollettino dellrsquoAssociazione nazionale per Aquileia
ArchCl Archeologia classica
Archeologia Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Published by the Society ofAntiquaries of London
ArtB The Art Bulletin
ASSAPH Assaph Studies in Art History
AST Araştırma Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
Atiqot Atiqot Journal of the Israel Department of Antiquities
AttiMemIstria Atti e memorie della Societagrave istriana di archeologia e storia patria
AW Antike Welt Zeitschrift fuumlr Archaumlologie und Kulturgeschichte
BAA Bulletin drsquoarcheologie algerienneBABesch Bulletin antieke beschaving Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology
BAcHist Boletiacuten de la Real academia de la historia
Baetica Baetica Estudios de arte geografiacutea e historia
BAR British Archaeological Reports British Series
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BCH Bulletin de correspondance helleacutenique
BCom Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxx
BCTH Bulletin archeacuteologique du Comiteacute des travaux historiques et scientifiques Paris
BdA Bollettino drsquoarte
BEFAR Bibliothegraveque des Ecoles franccedilaises drsquoAthegravenes et de Rome
Belleten Belleten Tuumlrk Tarih Kurumu
BJb Bonner Jahrbuumlcher des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn
BMQ The British Museum Quarterly BMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
Boreas Boreas Muumlnstersche Beitraumlge zur Archaumlologie
BSA The British school of Archaeology at Athens
BSEAA Boletin del Seminario de estudios de arte y arqueologia
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
BT Babylonian Talmud
BullAIEMA Bulletin de lrsquoAssociation internationale pour lrsquoetude de la mosaique antique
BullMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
CArch Cahiers archeacuteologiques
CEDAC CEDAC Bulletin Centre drsquoeacutetudes et de documentation archeacuteologique de la conservation deCartage
CEFR Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome
Chiron Chiron Mitteilungen der Kommission fuumlr Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des DeutschenArchaumlologischen Instituts
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
ClJ The Classical Journal
CMG Convegni di studi sulla Magna Grecia
CMGR I La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane I H STERN - G Ch PICARD (eds) Paris 1965 (Actes du Iercolloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Paris 30 aoucirct-3 septembre 1963)
CMGR II La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane II H STERN - M LE GAY (eds) Paris 1975 (Actes du IIe
colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Vienne-Isegravere 30 aoucirct-4septembre 1971)
CMGR III III Colloquio internazionale sul mosaico antico R FARIOLI CAMPANATI (eacuted) Ravenna1983 (Actes du IIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Ravenna6-10 septembre 1980)
CMGR IV La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane IV J -P DARMON - A REBOURG (eds) Paris 1994 (Actesdu IVe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique TregravevesTrier 8-14 aoucirct1984)
CMGR V Fifth Interneational Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics 1 - 2 P Johnson R Ling D J Smith(eds) Ann Arbor M1 1994 and 1995 (Actes du V e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de lamosaiumlque antique Bath 5-12 septembre 1987) (JRA supp9)
CMGR VI VI Col loquio internacional s obre mosaico ant iquo Palenc ia-Meacuterida Octubre 199 0D Fernandez GALIANO (ed) Guadalajara 1994 (Actes du VIe colloque international pour
lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Palencia-Meacuterida octobre 1990)CMGR VII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VII M ENNAIFER - A REBOURG (eds) Tunis 1999 (Actes
du VIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Tunis 3-7 octobre 1994)
CMGR VIII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VIII D PAUNNIER - Chr SCHMIDT (eds) Lausanne 2001(Actes du VIIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevaleLausanne 6-11 octobre 1997) Cahiers drsquoArcheacuteologie Romande 85-86
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviations xxi
CMGR IX La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine IX Heacutelegravene MORLIER (eacuted) Rome 2005 (Actes du IXe colloqueinternational pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome Eacutecole franccedilaisePalazzo Altemps 5 ndash 10 novembre 2001) (Coll EFR 352) (2 vol)
CMGR X La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine X (in Publised)
CMGR XI XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve AntikDoumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi Mozaiklerin Başlan-gıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi Stil ve Teknik uumlzerine Sorular 11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS Mosaics of Turkey andParallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World Questions ofIconography Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late ByzantineEra Mustafa ŞAHİN (Ed) Bursa 2009 (İstanbul 2011)
DNP Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopaumldie der Antike
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Empuacuteries Empuacuteries Revista de prehistograveria arqueologia i etnologia
EPRO Etudes preacuteliminaires aux religions orientales dans lrsquoempire romain
ExcIsr Excavations and Surveys in Israel
Expedition Expedition The Magazine of Archaeology Anthropology
FiE Forschungen in EphesosForschungen I -III Forschungen in Salona I Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institute
Gallia Gallia Fouilles et monuments archeacuteologiques en France metropolitaine
Habis Habis Universidad de Sevilla Arqueologiacutea filologiacutea claacutesica
Historia Historia Zeitschrift fuumlr Alte Geschichte
HistriaAnt Histria antiqua Casopis Međunarodnog Istraživačkog Centra za Arheologiju Journal of theInternational Research Centre for Archeology
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Iliria Iliria Revisteuml arkeologjike
IMT Paul Gauckler Inventaire des mosaiumlques de la Gaule et de lrsquoAfrique tome II AfriqueProconsulaire (Tunisie) Paris 1910 Suppleacutement Alfred Merlin Paris 1915
IstForsch Istanbuler Forschungen
IstMitt Istanbuler Mitteilungen
IvE Inschriften griechischer Staumldte aus Kleinasien
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JAT Journal of Ancient Topography - Rivista di topografia antica
JbAC Jahrbuch fuumlr Antike und Christentum
JbOumlByz Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JdI Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts
JHS The Journal of Hellenic Studies
JMR Journal of Mosaic Research
JOumlAI Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in WienJOumlB Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
JRS The Journal of Roman Studies
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
Klio Klio Beitraumlge zur alten Geschichte
Kokalos Kώκαλος Studi pubblicati dallacuteIstituto di storia antica dellacuteUniversitagrave di Palermo
KST Kazı Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxxii
LA Liber Annuus Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Jeacuterusalem
Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
Le Deacutecor II C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J-P DARMON S GOZLAN M-P RAYNAUDLe deacutecor geacuteomeacutetrique de la Mosaiumlque Romaine II Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif desdeacutecors centreacutes Paris 2002
LIMC Lexikon iconographicum mythologiae classicaeLLAuml Lexikon der AumlgyptologieLRAC Reallexikon fuumlr Antike und Christentum
LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Mainake Mainake Estudios de arqueologiacutea Malaguentildea
MEFR Melanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome
MEFRA Meacutelanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome Antiquiteacute
MEFRM Meacutelanges de lrsquoEacutecole Franccedilaise de Rome Moyen Age
MitChrA Mitteilungen zur christlichen Archaumlologie
MKKS Muumlze Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu
MM Madrider Mitteilungen
Museacuteon Le Museacuteon Revue drsquoeacutetudes orientales
OumlJh Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in Wien
OpArch Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom Opuscula archaeologica
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Peristil Peristil Zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti
PriloziZagreb Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu
QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine
RA Revue archeacuteologique
RACr Rivista di archeologia cristiana
RB Revue biblique
RBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen Kunst Begruumlndet von K Wessel und M Restle Herausgege-Herausgege-ben von M Restle (Stuttgart)
RCHM Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
RHVaud Revue historique vaudoise
StudMisc Peter Johnson - Roger Ling - David J Smith (ed) Fifth International Colloquium on AncientMosaics held at Bath England on September 5 ndash 12 Ann Arbor Michigan 1994 et 1995(Actes du Ve colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique) (JRA SupplementarySeries 9) (2 vol)
TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
Traditio Traditio Studies in Ancient and Medieval History Thought and Religion
TuumlrkAD Tuumlrk Arkeoloji Dergisi
WO Die Welt des Orients
ZDPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaumlstina-Vereins
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Marek Titien OLSZEWSKI
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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La Fausse Iph983145geacuten983145e Dant983145oche Une Eacuten983145gme Enf983145n
ReacutesolueJean - P983145erre Darmon
Les Personn983145f983145cat983145ons Des Sa983145sons Sur Les MosaiumlquesTard983145ves (983145ve-v983145e S983145egravecles) De La Part983145e Or983145entale Du
Bass983145n Meacuted983145terraneacuteen (Turqu983145e Syr983145e Jordan983145ePalest983145ne)Anne-Soph983145e Deacutecr983145aud
1100 - 1120 Intrecc983145 d983145 l983145nee come trame d983145 f983145l983145 Per un corpus de983145mosa983145c983145 altomed983145eval983145 del VenetoG983145ordana Trovabene
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 3Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 4Moderator Anne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
1215 - 1235 Reflect983145on of Cults and R983145tuels on Mosa983145cs andRel983145efs 983145n Osroene and Other Syr983145an CulturesBarış Salman
Aspects Of Euerget983145sm And Soc983145o Econom983145c ForcesIn Byzant983145ne And Early Islam983145c Mosa983145cs In JordanBasema Hamarneh
1235 - 1255Les Pavements des Thermes Agraversquo octogone De PupputAiumlcha Ben Abed - Roger Hanoune
Mosa983145c Decorat983145on 983145n C983145v983145c Context Late ant983145quepavements from PergeIşıl R Işıklıkaya
1255 - 1315
Derec983145k Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacutegl983145se pour deuxmosaiumlquesM983145chel E FuchsSoph983145e Delbarre-Baumlrtsch983145
Bursa Moza983145kler983145Recep Okccedilu
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
HALL A HALL B
Panel 5Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 6Moderator Aiumlcha Ben Abed
1500 - 1520The VI th century floor mosa983145c of the church ofKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Mar983145a Andaloro - Paola Pogl983145an983145
Erz983145ncan - Altıntepe K983145l983145se Moza983145kler983145B983145rol Can
1520 - 1540The Bas983145l983145ca Of Ag983145o983145 Sarantak983145rklar Tekke In CyprusAnd Its Mosa983145csAndreas Foul983145as
D983145onysos et la mer les mosaiumlques agrave lrsquoeacutepoquehelleacuten983145st983145que et au deacutebut de lrsquoeacutepoque 983145mpeacuter983145aleAnne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
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1540 - 1600Early Byzant983145ne Mosa983145cs W983145th Person983145f983145cat983145ons FromTurkey And Syr983145aChr983145st983145ne Kondoleon
El Mosa983145co Pav983145mental De La Basiacutel983145ca De L983145lla Del Re983145G983145sela R983145poll Catal983145na MasM983145guel Aacutengel Cau
1600 - 1620Corpus Of Late Ant983145que And Early Chr983145st983145an Mosa983145csIn Bulgar983145aAlexander L983145rsch
Mosa983145cs In Ant983145och A Morpholog983145cal Observat983145onD983145klah Zohar
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630 - 1640 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 7Moderator Mar983145a Andaloro
Panel 8Moderator B983145rol Can
1640 - 1700Pompe983145opol983145s ( Taşkoumlpruuml )Lu983145sa Musso
La Produz983145one Pav983145mentale Pugl983145ese Tra Tardoant983145coE Med983145oevo Evoluz983145one Tecn983145ca E St983145l983145st983145caCarr983145no Rachele
1700 - 1720La ma983145son des deux l983145ons agrave CarthageAiumlcha Ben-AbedBen Khader - Cather983145ne Balmelle
Putt983145ng In Context Two Mosa983145cs Of Okeanos AndThalassaDelph983145ne Renaut
1720 - 1740
1740 - 1800 DISCUSSION
1900 - 2200 DINNER Mevlev983145 Presentat983145on
17 October 2009 Saturday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 9Moderator Luisa Musso
Panel 10Moderator Asuman Baldıran
0900 - 0920New Mosaics at the Colonia Patricia CordubaFrancesc Josep de Rueda Roigeacute
Parallel Research Fresco Painting Of Chora AndSopocani Violeta C OcokoljicJugoslav Ocokoljic
0920 - 0940Sailing in the Dead Sea - Madaba Map MosaicZaraza Friedman
Mosaique funeacuteraire drsquoOrpheacutee de Jerusalem auMuseacutee Archeacuteologique drsquoIstanbul CompleacutementdrsquoenquecircteMarek Titien Olszewski
0940 - 1000Literary References on Three Roman MosaicPanelsSarah E Cox
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implicationsfor Other RegionsRuth Kolarik
1000 - 1020I Mosaici delle Basiliche Paleocristianedellrsquoisola di CosLorella Maria De Matteis
The Marble Floor Decoration in ConstantinopleProlegomen to a Corpus Alessandra Guiglia
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 11Moderator Derya Şahin
Panel 12Moderator Zaraza Friedman
1040 - 1100
Conservative Approaches In The SynagogueMosaic Pavements In Israel The Cases Of lsquoeinGedi And Sepphoris Zippori Asher Ovadiah
Theatre and Art Mosaics as Evidence forDramatic PerformanceKatherine Dunbabin
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1100 - 1020Late Antique Tombs With Mosaics In AncientHalikarnassosDavid Parrish - Birte Poulsen
A Propos Des Opus Sectile Deacutecouverts Dans LaMaison Du Cours Pourtoules (orange-vaucluse)Eric Morvillez
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 13Moderator Birte Poulsen
Panel 14Moderator Asher Ovadiah
1215 - 1235The Mosaic Pavement of the Early ChristianBasilica At GoumlnenGerme In Mysia laquoHellespontraquoWerner Jobst
Oriental motifs and patterns in the mosaic art ofTarragonaRosario Navarro
1235 - 1255The Vith Century Floor Mosaic Of The Church OfKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) Ulderico Santamaria - Claudia Pelosi
The Marble Omphalos Of The St Sophia OfConstantinople Analysis Of An Opus SectilePavement Of The Middle Byzantine PeriodSilvia Pedone
1255 - 1315Torba Manastır Kompleksi Mozaikleri M Aykut Oumlzet
The Marble Floor Of St John Studius InConstantinople A Forgotten MasterpieceClaudia Barsanti
1315 - 1330Sardisrsquoteki Geccedil Roma-Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaikleriEmine Tok
Mylasa Mozaikleri Abuzer Kızıl
1330 - 1345 DISCUSSION
1400 - 2200 DERECİK ( BUumlYUumlKORHAN ) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
18 October 2009 Sunday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 15Moderator Hakan Mert
Panel 16Moderator Michel E Fuchs
0900 - 0920Basic Criteria for the Preservation of Mosaics AGuide for Archaeologists ISelccediluk Şener
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between Eastand WestZeev Weiss
0920 - 0940
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as aManagement Activity of Archaeological Sites AGuide for Archaeologists IIHande Koumlkten
Une Grande Famille de Deacutecors GeacuteomeacutetriquesBernard Parzysz
0940 - 1000
Display of Ancient Mosaics İn Situ Tourism as anInuential Factor Steering the Decision MakingProcessŞehriguumll Yeşil Erdek
Mosaicos Mitoloacutegicos de Zeugma Y de Hispania Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
1000 - 1020 A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of TurkeyCondition Survey of MosaicsHande Koumlkten
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of SaintEirene at Constantinople Alessandro Taddei
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 2200 IZNIK (NICEA) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
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19 October 2009 Monday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 17Moderator Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Panel 18Moderator Veronika Scheibelreiter
0900 - 0920Signs of the Progression of Time in RomanMosaic ArtMaja Kramer
Une Nouvelle Mosaiumlque sur lrsquooppidum drsquoAlegraves(Gard France) Veacuteronique Blanc- BijonFabienne Olmer
0920 - 0940 Antikccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At Ikonograsi Emine Koumlker
The Latest Archaeological Discoveries about theMediana MosaicsGordana Jeremic
0940 - 1000New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa ATorre Annunziata ItalyJohn R Clarke - Lea Cline
Architekturdarstellungen auf roumlmischen MosaikenKleinasienHakan Mert
1000 - 1020Late Antiquity Mosaics in Portugal Virgilio Lopez
Orpheus Some Metaphors in MosaicNeil Cookson
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 19Moderator Selccediluk Şener
Panel 20Moderator Patricia Witts
1040 - 1100Opus Sectile Pavements From Western AsiaMinor Veronika Scheibelreiter
The First Roman Mosaics Discovered in CetobrigaCarlos Tavares da Silva - Joaquina Soares -Liciacutenia Wrench
1100 - 1020
Indagini Archeologiche A Palazzo ValentiniunQuartiere Residenziale Ai Margini Del ForoTraianoPaola Baldassarri
Olympos Mozaikli YapıGeccedil Antik Ccedilağ - Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaiklerinin Teknik ve Stil Değerlendirmesi Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 21Moderator Hande Koumlkten
Panel 22Moderator Liciacutenia Wrench
1215 - 1235Mosaic Studies And Souvenirs Leaving no StoneUnturnedPatricia Witts
The Mosaic of Leukippe and Theonoe in theKointos Villa in ZeugmaPaolo Vitellozzi
1235 - 1255Notice Mosaic of laquothe House of Medusaraquo(portugal Alter do Chatildeo)Maria Teresa Caetano
Metropolis Mozaikleri Ali Kazım Oumlz
1255 - 1315 Zeugma Danae Evinin MozaikleriMehmet Oumlnal
Mosaicos Con la Iconograa de Thethismadre
de Aquiles en Turquia Y en Otros Enclaves delImperio RomanoMercedes Duran Penedo
1315 - 1330 LUNCH
1330 - 1530 AIEMA MEETING
DISENGAGED DINNER
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20 October 2009 Tuesday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 23Moderator Mehmet Onal
Panel 24Moderator Paolo Vitellozzi
0900 - 0920De Que Hablamos Cuando Hablamos de TalleresMusivos Tardios en HispaniaMercedes Torres Carro
The Bejewelled Lady of SinopeFuumlsun Tuumllek
0920 - 0940 A new reading of the Dor mosaicIdit Sagiv-Hayik
Milli Azerbaycan Tarihi Muumlzesinde Hristyan AbideleriFariz Halilli
0940 - 1000Konya Tatkoumly ve Alibeykoumly Houmlyuumlğuuml Mozaikleri Asuman Baldıran- Osman Doğanay
Salamis Kenti Opus Sectile Taban Doumlşemeleri Aytaccedil Coşkun
1000 - 1020Il Mosaico di Metiochos E Parthenope da ZeugmaLucia Romizzi - Andrea Carini
Non-Destructive Investigations on Mosaic of theChurch of the Three HierarchsM Geba - N Vornicu - C Bibire
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 25Moderator Işıl R Işıklıkaya
Panel 26Moderator Luz Neira
1040 - 1100
Late Antique Private Luxury The Mosaic FloorsOf The Urban Mansion Of Sagalassos (ağlasunBurdur)Inge Uytterhoeven - Hande Koumlkten - MarcWaelkens - Markku Corremans
The Role of Late Antique Art in Early ChristianWorship A Reconsideration of the Iconographyof The lsquostarry Skyrsquo in Mosaics of the Late 5th -Early 6th C AdEllen Swift - Anne Alwis
1100 - 1020The Early Christian Mosaics with the Inscriptionsin CroatiaMarija Buzov
La Construccioacuten de las identidades de geacutenero atraveacutes de los mosaicos antioquenosJesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 27Moderator Marija Buzov
Panel 28Moderator Maja Kramer
1215 - 1235Kaunos Kubbeli Kilise Ek Yapısırsquondaki TabanMozaiği Ayşe Aydın
El Thiasos Marino en los Mosaicos Romanos deTurquiacuteaLuz Neira
1235 - 1255
The Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics Bugini RobertoFolli Luisa Portulano BrunellaRofa Elisabetta
A stibadium with a mosaic in the Roman Villa ofRabaccedilal Penela PortugalMiguel Pessoa
1255 - 1315
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romainede Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de AlgarveMaria De Jesus Duran Kremer
Mosaiumlques mythologiques de Zeugma Originaliteacuteet Liens iconographiques avec la peinturepompeacuteienne et les mosaiumlques italiques etafricains du I-II siegravecleLucia Romizzi
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
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HALL A HALL B
Panel 29Moderator Maria Kremer
Panel 30Moderator Miguel Pessoa
1500 - 1520
The Vases Representation (cantharus Crater)on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Signicant
Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late AntiquityFilomena Limatildeo
The Rape of Hylas and the Spectacles of the Amphitheatre on a Floor Mosaic from Volubilis
(Morocco)Margherita Carucci
1520 - 1540The Herakles mosaic discovered in Homs (Syria)Komait Abdallah
Myndos MosaicsDerya Şahin
1540 - 1600Les Mosaiumlques Agrave Thegraveme MythologiqueReacutecemment Deacutecouvertes Agrave NicircmesJean-yves Breuil
A Late Antique Residence in Augusta TraianaProvince of ThraceJulia Valeva
1600 - 1620Floor mosaics from a Roman villa in NinJagoda Meder
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of ItalicaFirmament ImagesIrene Mantildeas Romero
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630FREE TIME- BURSA -
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KISALTMALAR ABBREVIATIONS
AA Archaeologischer Anzeiger
Abulg Archaeologia Bulgarica
Acontia Acontia Revista de arqueologiacutea
ActaInstRomFin Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae
AEspA Archivo espantildeol de arqueologiacutea
AISCOM LrsquoAssociazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico
AJA American Journal of Archaelology
AJug Archaeologia JugoslavicaAM Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts Athenische Abteilung
AMethTh Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
AMS Asia Minor Studien
AnatoliaA Anatolia Antiqua
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der roumlmischen Welt
AnSt Anatolian Studies
AntAfr Antiquiteacutes africaines
AntigCr Antiguumledad y Cristianismo Monografiacuteas histoacutericas sobre la antiguumledad tardiacutea
AntK Antike Kunst
AntTard Antiquiteacute tardive Revue internationale drsquohistoire et drsquoarcheacuteologie
APregl Arheološki pregled Arheološko društvo JugoslavijeAquilNost Aquileia nostra Bollettino dellrsquoAssociazione nazionale per Aquileia
ArchCl Archeologia classica
Archeologia Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Published by the Society ofAntiquaries of London
ArtB The Art Bulletin
ASSAPH Assaph Studies in Art History
AST Araştırma Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
Atiqot Atiqot Journal of the Israel Department of Antiquities
AttiMemIstria Atti e memorie della Societagrave istriana di archeologia e storia patria
AW Antike Welt Zeitschrift fuumlr Archaumlologie und Kulturgeschichte
BAA Bulletin drsquoarcheologie algerienneBABesch Bulletin antieke beschaving Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology
BAcHist Boletiacuten de la Real academia de la historia
Baetica Baetica Estudios de arte geografiacutea e historia
BAR British Archaeological Reports British Series
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BCH Bulletin de correspondance helleacutenique
BCom Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxx
BCTH Bulletin archeacuteologique du Comiteacute des travaux historiques et scientifiques Paris
BdA Bollettino drsquoarte
BEFAR Bibliothegraveque des Ecoles franccedilaises drsquoAthegravenes et de Rome
Belleten Belleten Tuumlrk Tarih Kurumu
BJb Bonner Jahrbuumlcher des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn
BMQ The British Museum Quarterly BMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
Boreas Boreas Muumlnstersche Beitraumlge zur Archaumlologie
BSA The British school of Archaeology at Athens
BSEAA Boletin del Seminario de estudios de arte y arqueologia
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
BT Babylonian Talmud
BullAIEMA Bulletin de lrsquoAssociation internationale pour lrsquoetude de la mosaique antique
BullMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
CArch Cahiers archeacuteologiques
CEDAC CEDAC Bulletin Centre drsquoeacutetudes et de documentation archeacuteologique de la conservation deCartage
CEFR Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome
Chiron Chiron Mitteilungen der Kommission fuumlr Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des DeutschenArchaumlologischen Instituts
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
ClJ The Classical Journal
CMG Convegni di studi sulla Magna Grecia
CMGR I La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane I H STERN - G Ch PICARD (eds) Paris 1965 (Actes du Iercolloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Paris 30 aoucirct-3 septembre 1963)
CMGR II La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane II H STERN - M LE GAY (eds) Paris 1975 (Actes du IIe
colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Vienne-Isegravere 30 aoucirct-4septembre 1971)
CMGR III III Colloquio internazionale sul mosaico antico R FARIOLI CAMPANATI (eacuted) Ravenna1983 (Actes du IIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Ravenna6-10 septembre 1980)
CMGR IV La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane IV J -P DARMON - A REBOURG (eds) Paris 1994 (Actesdu IVe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique TregravevesTrier 8-14 aoucirct1984)
CMGR V Fifth Interneational Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics 1 - 2 P Johnson R Ling D J Smith(eds) Ann Arbor M1 1994 and 1995 (Actes du V e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de lamosaiumlque antique Bath 5-12 septembre 1987) (JRA supp9)
CMGR VI VI Col loquio internacional s obre mosaico ant iquo Palenc ia-Meacuterida Octubre 199 0D Fernandez GALIANO (ed) Guadalajara 1994 (Actes du VIe colloque international pour
lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Palencia-Meacuterida octobre 1990)CMGR VII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VII M ENNAIFER - A REBOURG (eds) Tunis 1999 (Actes
du VIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Tunis 3-7 octobre 1994)
CMGR VIII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VIII D PAUNNIER - Chr SCHMIDT (eds) Lausanne 2001(Actes du VIIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevaleLausanne 6-11 octobre 1997) Cahiers drsquoArcheacuteologie Romande 85-86
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviations xxi
CMGR IX La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine IX Heacutelegravene MORLIER (eacuted) Rome 2005 (Actes du IXe colloqueinternational pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome Eacutecole franccedilaisePalazzo Altemps 5 ndash 10 novembre 2001) (Coll EFR 352) (2 vol)
CMGR X La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine X (in Publised)
CMGR XI XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve AntikDoumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi Mozaiklerin Başlan-gıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi Stil ve Teknik uumlzerine Sorular 11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS Mosaics of Turkey andParallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World Questions ofIconography Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late ByzantineEra Mustafa ŞAHİN (Ed) Bursa 2009 (İstanbul 2011)
DNP Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopaumldie der Antike
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Empuacuteries Empuacuteries Revista de prehistograveria arqueologia i etnologia
EPRO Etudes preacuteliminaires aux religions orientales dans lrsquoempire romain
ExcIsr Excavations and Surveys in Israel
Expedition Expedition The Magazine of Archaeology Anthropology
FiE Forschungen in EphesosForschungen I -III Forschungen in Salona I Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institute
Gallia Gallia Fouilles et monuments archeacuteologiques en France metropolitaine
Habis Habis Universidad de Sevilla Arqueologiacutea filologiacutea claacutesica
Historia Historia Zeitschrift fuumlr Alte Geschichte
HistriaAnt Histria antiqua Casopis Međunarodnog Istraživačkog Centra za Arheologiju Journal of theInternational Research Centre for Archeology
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Iliria Iliria Revisteuml arkeologjike
IMT Paul Gauckler Inventaire des mosaiumlques de la Gaule et de lrsquoAfrique tome II AfriqueProconsulaire (Tunisie) Paris 1910 Suppleacutement Alfred Merlin Paris 1915
IstForsch Istanbuler Forschungen
IstMitt Istanbuler Mitteilungen
IvE Inschriften griechischer Staumldte aus Kleinasien
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JAT Journal of Ancient Topography - Rivista di topografia antica
JbAC Jahrbuch fuumlr Antike und Christentum
JbOumlByz Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JdI Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts
JHS The Journal of Hellenic Studies
JMR Journal of Mosaic Research
JOumlAI Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in WienJOumlB Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
JRS The Journal of Roman Studies
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
Klio Klio Beitraumlge zur alten Geschichte
Kokalos Kώκαλος Studi pubblicati dallacuteIstituto di storia antica dellacuteUniversitagrave di Palermo
KST Kazı Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxxii
LA Liber Annuus Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Jeacuterusalem
Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
Le Deacutecor II C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J-P DARMON S GOZLAN M-P RAYNAUDLe deacutecor geacuteomeacutetrique de la Mosaiumlque Romaine II Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif desdeacutecors centreacutes Paris 2002
LIMC Lexikon iconographicum mythologiae classicaeLLAuml Lexikon der AumlgyptologieLRAC Reallexikon fuumlr Antike und Christentum
LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Mainake Mainake Estudios de arqueologiacutea Malaguentildea
MEFR Melanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome
MEFRA Meacutelanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome Antiquiteacute
MEFRM Meacutelanges de lrsquoEacutecole Franccedilaise de Rome Moyen Age
MitChrA Mitteilungen zur christlichen Archaumlologie
MKKS Muumlze Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu
MM Madrider Mitteilungen
Museacuteon Le Museacuteon Revue drsquoeacutetudes orientales
OumlJh Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in Wien
OpArch Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom Opuscula archaeologica
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Peristil Peristil Zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti
PriloziZagreb Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu
QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine
RA Revue archeacuteologique
RACr Rivista di archeologia cristiana
RB Revue biblique
RBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen Kunst Begruumlndet von K Wessel und M Restle Herausgege-Herausgege-ben von M Restle (Stuttgart)
RCHM Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
RHVaud Revue historique vaudoise
StudMisc Peter Johnson - Roger Ling - David J Smith (ed) Fifth International Colloquium on AncientMosaics held at Bath England on September 5 ndash 12 Ann Arbor Michigan 1994 et 1995(Actes du Ve colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique) (JRA SupplementarySeries 9) (2 vol)
TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
Traditio Traditio Studies in Ancient and Medieval History Thought and Religion
TuumlrkAD Tuumlrk Arkeoloji Dergisi
WO Die Welt des Orients
ZDPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaumlstina-Vereins
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e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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JESNICK 1997 I Jesnick The Image of Orpheus in Roman Mosaic An
Exploration of the Figure of Orpheus in Graeco-Roman
Art and Culture with Special Reference to its Expression
in the Medium of MosaIc in Late Antiquity OxfordBAR International Series 671 nr 73 141
LAZREG 2002
N B Lazreg Image de pierre La Tunisie en mosaiumlqueA ben Abed-ben Khader (ed) Paris 488-490
LIDDEL ndash SCOTT 1940 HG Liddel ndash R Scott Greek-English Lexicon
Oxford
MICHAELIDES 1992 D Michaelides Cypriot Mosaics Nicosia
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Cathedra 1 Jerusalem 152-166
OLSZEWSKI 1995 M T Olszewski laquo Lrsquoimage et sa fonction dans la
mosaiumlque byzantine des premiegraveres basiliques en OrientLrsquoiconographie chreacutetienne expliqueacutee par Cyrille deJeacuterusalem (314-387) raquo CArch 43 9-35
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Sept Sages A propos de la ldquoColegravere drsquoAchilleldquo sur lamosaiumlque de Meacuterida raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LI 37-46 pls IV-V
OLSZEWSKI 2001 MT Olszewski laquo Arteacutemidore mythologie et sym-
bolique funeacuteraire raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LII 39-60pls XI-XV
OLSZEWSKI 2001 M T Olszewski laquo Le langage symbolique dans
la deacutecoration agrave scegravenes mythologiques et sonsens dans les tombes peintes de lrsquoOrient romainNouvelle approche raquoVIIe Colloque de lrsquoAssociation
Internationale pour lrsquoeacutetude de la peinture antiqueSt-Romain-en-Gal 1998 Paris 2001 155-162 plsXXVI-XXIX
OLSZEWSKI 2001
M T Olszewski laquo Mauvais œil et protection contrelrsquoenvie dans la mosaiumlque de Cheikh Zouegravede au Sinaiuml(IV-Ve siegravecle) raquo D Paunier - C Schmidt (eds) Actes du VIIIegraveme Colloque International pour lrsquo eacutetude
de la Mosaiumlque Antique 1-2 Lausanne Cahiersdrsquoarcheacuteologie romande 276-301
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Zodiac Mosaic Calendar in the Lower Synagogue atHammath-Tiberias raquo Newsletter of American Schools
of Oriental Research 55 nr 3 18
OLSZEWSKI 2005
M T Olszewski laquo Le statut de lrsquoimage selonArteacutemidore et lrsquoart romain raquo H Morlier (ed) Actes du
IX e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque
antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome novembre 2001 Rome Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome-352 II859-880
OLSZEWSKI 2006 M T Olszewski laquo La mosaiumlque de la Fecircte Nocturne
Pannychis de Shahba-Philippopolis et le teacutemoignagedrsquoArteacutemidore de Daldis (Onirocriticon II 61) raquo inKalathos Studies in Honour of Asher Ovadiah TelAviv ASSAPH 2005-2006 Studies in Art History vols10-11 381-390
OLSZEWSKI 2010 M T Olszewski laquo Images allusives Dionysos et Ariane
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ndash mars 2008 205-214 226OLSZEWSKI 2009 M T Olszewski laquo Identification de cadrans solaires
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les morts dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute tardive EPHESS Collection
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12 150-157
STONE 2006 M E Stone Apocrypha Pseudepigrapha and Armenian
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Jerusalemrdquo ZDPV 24 139-165
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The Transition of Orpheus theme from Poganism toChristianity in late Roman-Early Byzantine MosaicsIstanbul
VIEILLEFON 2003 L Vieillefon La figure drsquoOrpheeacute dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute
tardive Les mutations drsquoun mythe du heacuteros paiumlen auchantre chreacutetien Paris De Boccard
VINCENT 1901 H Vincent laquo Une mosaiumlque byzantine agrave Jeacuterusalem raquo
RB 10 436-444
VINCENT 1902 H Vincent laquo La mosaiumlque drsquoOrpheacutee raquo RB 11
100-103
WOLFF 2000 E Wolff La poeacutesie funeacuteraire eacutepigraphique agrave Rome
Rennes
WREDE 1981 H Wrede Consecratio in formam deorumVergoumlttlich-
te Privatpersonen in der roumlmischen Kaiserzeit Mainz
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BİLİMSEL PROGRAM SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
16 October 2009 Fr983145day
0900 - 1040 Open983145ng Ceremony OumlRDEKLİ COMPLEX
HALL A HALL B
Panel 1Moderator Dav983145d Parr983145sh
Panel 2Moderator Werner Jobst
1040 - 1100
La Fausse Iph983145geacuten983145e Dant983145oche Une Eacuten983145gme Enf983145n
ReacutesolueJean - P983145erre Darmon
Les Personn983145f983145cat983145ons Des Sa983145sons Sur Les MosaiumlquesTard983145ves (983145ve-v983145e S983145egravecles) De La Part983145e Or983145entale Du
Bass983145n Meacuted983145terraneacuteen (Turqu983145e Syr983145e Jordan983145ePalest983145ne)Anne-Soph983145e Deacutecr983145aud
1100 - 1120 Intrecc983145 d983145 l983145nee come trame d983145 f983145l983145 Per un corpus de983145mosa983145c983145 altomed983145eval983145 del VenetoG983145ordana Trovabene
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 3Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 4Moderator Anne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
1215 - 1235 Reflect983145on of Cults and R983145tuels on Mosa983145cs andRel983145efs 983145n Osroene and Other Syr983145an CulturesBarış Salman
Aspects Of Euerget983145sm And Soc983145o Econom983145c ForcesIn Byzant983145ne And Early Islam983145c Mosa983145cs In JordanBasema Hamarneh
1235 - 1255Les Pavements des Thermes Agraversquo octogone De PupputAiumlcha Ben Abed - Roger Hanoune
Mosa983145c Decorat983145on 983145n C983145v983145c Context Late ant983145quepavements from PergeIşıl R Işıklıkaya
1255 - 1315
Derec983145k Buumlyuumlkorhan Une eacutegl983145se pour deuxmosaiumlquesM983145chel E FuchsSoph983145e Delbarre-Baumlrtsch983145
Bursa Moza983145kler983145Recep Okccedilu
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
HALL A HALL B
Panel 5Moderator Jean - P983145erre Darmon
Panel 6Moderator Aiumlcha Ben Abed
1500 - 1520The VI th century floor mosa983145c of the church ofKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum)Mar983145a Andaloro - Paola Pogl983145an983145
Erz983145ncan - Altıntepe K983145l983145se Moza983145kler983145B983145rol Can
1520 - 1540The Bas983145l983145ca Of Ag983145o983145 Sarantak983145rklar Tekke In CyprusAnd Its Mosa983145csAndreas Foul983145as
D983145onysos et la mer les mosaiumlques agrave lrsquoeacutepoquehelleacuten983145st983145que et au deacutebut de lrsquoeacutepoque 983145mpeacuter983145aleAnne-Mar983145e Gu983145m983145er-Sorbets
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexiv
1540 - 1600Early Byzant983145ne Mosa983145cs W983145th Person983145f983145cat983145ons FromTurkey And Syr983145aChr983145st983145ne Kondoleon
El Mosa983145co Pav983145mental De La Basiacutel983145ca De L983145lla Del Re983145G983145sela R983145poll Catal983145na MasM983145guel Aacutengel Cau
1600 - 1620Corpus Of Late Ant983145que And Early Chr983145st983145an Mosa983145csIn Bulgar983145aAlexander L983145rsch
Mosa983145cs In Ant983145och A Morpholog983145cal Observat983145onD983145klah Zohar
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630 - 1640 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 7Moderator Mar983145a Andaloro
Panel 8Moderator B983145rol Can
1640 - 1700Pompe983145opol983145s ( Taşkoumlpruuml )Lu983145sa Musso
La Produz983145one Pav983145mentale Pugl983145ese Tra Tardoant983145coE Med983145oevo Evoluz983145one Tecn983145ca E St983145l983145st983145caCarr983145no Rachele
1700 - 1720La ma983145son des deux l983145ons agrave CarthageAiumlcha Ben-AbedBen Khader - Cather983145ne Balmelle
Putt983145ng In Context Two Mosa983145cs Of Okeanos AndThalassaDelph983145ne Renaut
1720 - 1740
1740 - 1800 DISCUSSION
1900 - 2200 DINNER Mevlev983145 Presentat983145on
17 October 2009 Saturday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 9Moderator Luisa Musso
Panel 10Moderator Asuman Baldıran
0900 - 0920New Mosaics at the Colonia Patricia CordubaFrancesc Josep de Rueda Roigeacute
Parallel Research Fresco Painting Of Chora AndSopocani Violeta C OcokoljicJugoslav Ocokoljic
0920 - 0940Sailing in the Dead Sea - Madaba Map MosaicZaraza Friedman
Mosaique funeacuteraire drsquoOrpheacutee de Jerusalem auMuseacutee Archeacuteologique drsquoIstanbul CompleacutementdrsquoenquecircteMarek Titien Olszewski
0940 - 1000Literary References on Three Roman MosaicPanelsSarah E Cox
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implicationsfor Other RegionsRuth Kolarik
1000 - 1020I Mosaici delle Basiliche Paleocristianedellrsquoisola di CosLorella Maria De Matteis
The Marble Floor Decoration in ConstantinopleProlegomen to a Corpus Alessandra Guiglia
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 11Moderator Derya Şahin
Panel 12Moderator Zaraza Friedman
1040 - 1100
Conservative Approaches In The SynagogueMosaic Pavements In Israel The Cases Of lsquoeinGedi And Sepphoris Zippori Asher Ovadiah
Theatre and Art Mosaics as Evidence forDramatic PerformanceKatherine Dunbabin
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xv
1100 - 1020Late Antique Tombs With Mosaics In AncientHalikarnassosDavid Parrish - Birte Poulsen
A Propos Des Opus Sectile Deacutecouverts Dans LaMaison Du Cours Pourtoules (orange-vaucluse)Eric Morvillez
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 13Moderator Birte Poulsen
Panel 14Moderator Asher Ovadiah
1215 - 1235The Mosaic Pavement of the Early ChristianBasilica At GoumlnenGerme In Mysia laquoHellespontraquoWerner Jobst
Oriental motifs and patterns in the mosaic art ofTarragonaRosario Navarro
1235 - 1255The Vith Century Floor Mosaic Of The Church OfKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) Ulderico Santamaria - Claudia Pelosi
The Marble Omphalos Of The St Sophia OfConstantinople Analysis Of An Opus SectilePavement Of The Middle Byzantine PeriodSilvia Pedone
1255 - 1315Torba Manastır Kompleksi Mozaikleri M Aykut Oumlzet
The Marble Floor Of St John Studius InConstantinople A Forgotten MasterpieceClaudia Barsanti
1315 - 1330Sardisrsquoteki Geccedil Roma-Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaikleriEmine Tok
Mylasa Mozaikleri Abuzer Kızıl
1330 - 1345 DISCUSSION
1400 - 2200 DERECİK ( BUumlYUumlKORHAN ) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
18 October 2009 Sunday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 15Moderator Hakan Mert
Panel 16Moderator Michel E Fuchs
0900 - 0920Basic Criteria for the Preservation of Mosaics AGuide for Archaeologists ISelccediluk Şener
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between Eastand WestZeev Weiss
0920 - 0940
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as aManagement Activity of Archaeological Sites AGuide for Archaeologists IIHande Koumlkten
Une Grande Famille de Deacutecors GeacuteomeacutetriquesBernard Parzysz
0940 - 1000
Display of Ancient Mosaics İn Situ Tourism as anInuential Factor Steering the Decision MakingProcessŞehriguumll Yeşil Erdek
Mosaicos Mitoloacutegicos de Zeugma Y de Hispania Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
1000 - 1020 A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of TurkeyCondition Survey of MosaicsHande Koumlkten
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of SaintEirene at Constantinople Alessandro Taddei
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 2200 IZNIK (NICEA) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
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19 October 2009 Monday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 17Moderator Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Panel 18Moderator Veronika Scheibelreiter
0900 - 0920Signs of the Progression of Time in RomanMosaic ArtMaja Kramer
Une Nouvelle Mosaiumlque sur lrsquooppidum drsquoAlegraves(Gard France) Veacuteronique Blanc- BijonFabienne Olmer
0920 - 0940 Antikccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At Ikonograsi Emine Koumlker
The Latest Archaeological Discoveries about theMediana MosaicsGordana Jeremic
0940 - 1000New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa ATorre Annunziata ItalyJohn R Clarke - Lea Cline
Architekturdarstellungen auf roumlmischen MosaikenKleinasienHakan Mert
1000 - 1020Late Antiquity Mosaics in Portugal Virgilio Lopez
Orpheus Some Metaphors in MosaicNeil Cookson
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 19Moderator Selccediluk Şener
Panel 20Moderator Patricia Witts
1040 - 1100Opus Sectile Pavements From Western AsiaMinor Veronika Scheibelreiter
The First Roman Mosaics Discovered in CetobrigaCarlos Tavares da Silva - Joaquina Soares -Liciacutenia Wrench
1100 - 1020
Indagini Archeologiche A Palazzo ValentiniunQuartiere Residenziale Ai Margini Del ForoTraianoPaola Baldassarri
Olympos Mozaikli YapıGeccedil Antik Ccedilağ - Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaiklerinin Teknik ve Stil Değerlendirmesi Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 21Moderator Hande Koumlkten
Panel 22Moderator Liciacutenia Wrench
1215 - 1235Mosaic Studies And Souvenirs Leaving no StoneUnturnedPatricia Witts
The Mosaic of Leukippe and Theonoe in theKointos Villa in ZeugmaPaolo Vitellozzi
1235 - 1255Notice Mosaic of laquothe House of Medusaraquo(portugal Alter do Chatildeo)Maria Teresa Caetano
Metropolis Mozaikleri Ali Kazım Oumlz
1255 - 1315 Zeugma Danae Evinin MozaikleriMehmet Oumlnal
Mosaicos Con la Iconograa de Thethismadre
de Aquiles en Turquia Y en Otros Enclaves delImperio RomanoMercedes Duran Penedo
1315 - 1330 LUNCH
1330 - 1530 AIEMA MEETING
DISENGAGED DINNER
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xvii
20 October 2009 Tuesday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 23Moderator Mehmet Onal
Panel 24Moderator Paolo Vitellozzi
0900 - 0920De Que Hablamos Cuando Hablamos de TalleresMusivos Tardios en HispaniaMercedes Torres Carro
The Bejewelled Lady of SinopeFuumlsun Tuumllek
0920 - 0940 A new reading of the Dor mosaicIdit Sagiv-Hayik
Milli Azerbaycan Tarihi Muumlzesinde Hristyan AbideleriFariz Halilli
0940 - 1000Konya Tatkoumly ve Alibeykoumly Houmlyuumlğuuml Mozaikleri Asuman Baldıran- Osman Doğanay
Salamis Kenti Opus Sectile Taban Doumlşemeleri Aytaccedil Coşkun
1000 - 1020Il Mosaico di Metiochos E Parthenope da ZeugmaLucia Romizzi - Andrea Carini
Non-Destructive Investigations on Mosaic of theChurch of the Three HierarchsM Geba - N Vornicu - C Bibire
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 25Moderator Işıl R Işıklıkaya
Panel 26Moderator Luz Neira
1040 - 1100
Late Antique Private Luxury The Mosaic FloorsOf The Urban Mansion Of Sagalassos (ağlasunBurdur)Inge Uytterhoeven - Hande Koumlkten - MarcWaelkens - Markku Corremans
The Role of Late Antique Art in Early ChristianWorship A Reconsideration of the Iconographyof The lsquostarry Skyrsquo in Mosaics of the Late 5th -Early 6th C AdEllen Swift - Anne Alwis
1100 - 1020The Early Christian Mosaics with the Inscriptionsin CroatiaMarija Buzov
La Construccioacuten de las identidades de geacutenero atraveacutes de los mosaicos antioquenosJesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 27Moderator Marija Buzov
Panel 28Moderator Maja Kramer
1215 - 1235Kaunos Kubbeli Kilise Ek Yapısırsquondaki TabanMozaiği Ayşe Aydın
El Thiasos Marino en los Mosaicos Romanos deTurquiacuteaLuz Neira
1235 - 1255
The Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics Bugini RobertoFolli Luisa Portulano BrunellaRofa Elisabetta
A stibadium with a mosaic in the Roman Villa ofRabaccedilal Penela PortugalMiguel Pessoa
1255 - 1315
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romainede Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de AlgarveMaria De Jesus Duran Kremer
Mosaiumlques mythologiques de Zeugma Originaliteacuteet Liens iconographiques avec la peinturepompeacuteienne et les mosaiumlques italiques etafricains du I-II siegravecleLucia Romizzi
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
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HALL A HALL B
Panel 29Moderator Maria Kremer
Panel 30Moderator Miguel Pessoa
1500 - 1520
The Vases Representation (cantharus Crater)on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Signicant
Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late AntiquityFilomena Limatildeo
The Rape of Hylas and the Spectacles of the Amphitheatre on a Floor Mosaic from Volubilis
(Morocco)Margherita Carucci
1520 - 1540The Herakles mosaic discovered in Homs (Syria)Komait Abdallah
Myndos MosaicsDerya Şahin
1540 - 1600Les Mosaiumlques Agrave Thegraveme MythologiqueReacutecemment Deacutecouvertes Agrave NicircmesJean-yves Breuil
A Late Antique Residence in Augusta TraianaProvince of ThraceJulia Valeva
1600 - 1620Floor mosaics from a Roman villa in NinJagoda Meder
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of ItalicaFirmament ImagesIrene Mantildeas Romero
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630FREE TIME- BURSA -
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KISALTMALAR ABBREVIATIONS
AA Archaeologischer Anzeiger
Abulg Archaeologia Bulgarica
Acontia Acontia Revista de arqueologiacutea
ActaInstRomFin Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae
AEspA Archivo espantildeol de arqueologiacutea
AISCOM LrsquoAssociazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico
AJA American Journal of Archaelology
AJug Archaeologia JugoslavicaAM Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts Athenische Abteilung
AMethTh Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
AMS Asia Minor Studien
AnatoliaA Anatolia Antiqua
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der roumlmischen Welt
AnSt Anatolian Studies
AntAfr Antiquiteacutes africaines
AntigCr Antiguumledad y Cristianismo Monografiacuteas histoacutericas sobre la antiguumledad tardiacutea
AntK Antike Kunst
AntTard Antiquiteacute tardive Revue internationale drsquohistoire et drsquoarcheacuteologie
APregl Arheološki pregled Arheološko društvo JugoslavijeAquilNost Aquileia nostra Bollettino dellrsquoAssociazione nazionale per Aquileia
ArchCl Archeologia classica
Archeologia Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Published by the Society ofAntiquaries of London
ArtB The Art Bulletin
ASSAPH Assaph Studies in Art History
AST Araştırma Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
Atiqot Atiqot Journal of the Israel Department of Antiquities
AttiMemIstria Atti e memorie della Societagrave istriana di archeologia e storia patria
AW Antike Welt Zeitschrift fuumlr Archaumlologie und Kulturgeschichte
BAA Bulletin drsquoarcheologie algerienneBABesch Bulletin antieke beschaving Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology
BAcHist Boletiacuten de la Real academia de la historia
Baetica Baetica Estudios de arte geografiacutea e historia
BAR British Archaeological Reports British Series
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BCH Bulletin de correspondance helleacutenique
BCom Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxx
BCTH Bulletin archeacuteologique du Comiteacute des travaux historiques et scientifiques Paris
BdA Bollettino drsquoarte
BEFAR Bibliothegraveque des Ecoles franccedilaises drsquoAthegravenes et de Rome
Belleten Belleten Tuumlrk Tarih Kurumu
BJb Bonner Jahrbuumlcher des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn
BMQ The British Museum Quarterly BMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
Boreas Boreas Muumlnstersche Beitraumlge zur Archaumlologie
BSA The British school of Archaeology at Athens
BSEAA Boletin del Seminario de estudios de arte y arqueologia
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
BT Babylonian Talmud
BullAIEMA Bulletin de lrsquoAssociation internationale pour lrsquoetude de la mosaique antique
BullMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
CArch Cahiers archeacuteologiques
CEDAC CEDAC Bulletin Centre drsquoeacutetudes et de documentation archeacuteologique de la conservation deCartage
CEFR Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome
Chiron Chiron Mitteilungen der Kommission fuumlr Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des DeutschenArchaumlologischen Instituts
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
ClJ The Classical Journal
CMG Convegni di studi sulla Magna Grecia
CMGR I La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane I H STERN - G Ch PICARD (eds) Paris 1965 (Actes du Iercolloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Paris 30 aoucirct-3 septembre 1963)
CMGR II La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane II H STERN - M LE GAY (eds) Paris 1975 (Actes du IIe
colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Vienne-Isegravere 30 aoucirct-4septembre 1971)
CMGR III III Colloquio internazionale sul mosaico antico R FARIOLI CAMPANATI (eacuted) Ravenna1983 (Actes du IIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Ravenna6-10 septembre 1980)
CMGR IV La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane IV J -P DARMON - A REBOURG (eds) Paris 1994 (Actesdu IVe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique TregravevesTrier 8-14 aoucirct1984)
CMGR V Fifth Interneational Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics 1 - 2 P Johnson R Ling D J Smith(eds) Ann Arbor M1 1994 and 1995 (Actes du V e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de lamosaiumlque antique Bath 5-12 septembre 1987) (JRA supp9)
CMGR VI VI Col loquio internacional s obre mosaico ant iquo Palenc ia-Meacuterida Octubre 199 0D Fernandez GALIANO (ed) Guadalajara 1994 (Actes du VIe colloque international pour
lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Palencia-Meacuterida octobre 1990)CMGR VII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VII M ENNAIFER - A REBOURG (eds) Tunis 1999 (Actes
du VIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Tunis 3-7 octobre 1994)
CMGR VIII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VIII D PAUNNIER - Chr SCHMIDT (eds) Lausanne 2001(Actes du VIIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevaleLausanne 6-11 octobre 1997) Cahiers drsquoArcheacuteologie Romande 85-86
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviations xxi
CMGR IX La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine IX Heacutelegravene MORLIER (eacuted) Rome 2005 (Actes du IXe colloqueinternational pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome Eacutecole franccedilaisePalazzo Altemps 5 ndash 10 novembre 2001) (Coll EFR 352) (2 vol)
CMGR X La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine X (in Publised)
CMGR XI XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve AntikDoumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi Mozaiklerin Başlan-gıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi Stil ve Teknik uumlzerine Sorular 11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS Mosaics of Turkey andParallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World Questions ofIconography Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late ByzantineEra Mustafa ŞAHİN (Ed) Bursa 2009 (İstanbul 2011)
DNP Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopaumldie der Antike
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Empuacuteries Empuacuteries Revista de prehistograveria arqueologia i etnologia
EPRO Etudes preacuteliminaires aux religions orientales dans lrsquoempire romain
ExcIsr Excavations and Surveys in Israel
Expedition Expedition The Magazine of Archaeology Anthropology
FiE Forschungen in EphesosForschungen I -III Forschungen in Salona I Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institute
Gallia Gallia Fouilles et monuments archeacuteologiques en France metropolitaine
Habis Habis Universidad de Sevilla Arqueologiacutea filologiacutea claacutesica
Historia Historia Zeitschrift fuumlr Alte Geschichte
HistriaAnt Histria antiqua Casopis Međunarodnog Istraživačkog Centra za Arheologiju Journal of theInternational Research Centre for Archeology
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Iliria Iliria Revisteuml arkeologjike
IMT Paul Gauckler Inventaire des mosaiumlques de la Gaule et de lrsquoAfrique tome II AfriqueProconsulaire (Tunisie) Paris 1910 Suppleacutement Alfred Merlin Paris 1915
IstForsch Istanbuler Forschungen
IstMitt Istanbuler Mitteilungen
IvE Inschriften griechischer Staumldte aus Kleinasien
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JAT Journal of Ancient Topography - Rivista di topografia antica
JbAC Jahrbuch fuumlr Antike und Christentum
JbOumlByz Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JdI Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts
JHS The Journal of Hellenic Studies
JMR Journal of Mosaic Research
JOumlAI Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in WienJOumlB Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
JRS The Journal of Roman Studies
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
Klio Klio Beitraumlge zur alten Geschichte
Kokalos Kώκαλος Studi pubblicati dallacuteIstituto di storia antica dellacuteUniversitagrave di Palermo
KST Kazı Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxxii
LA Liber Annuus Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Jeacuterusalem
Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
Le Deacutecor II C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J-P DARMON S GOZLAN M-P RAYNAUDLe deacutecor geacuteomeacutetrique de la Mosaiumlque Romaine II Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif desdeacutecors centreacutes Paris 2002
LIMC Lexikon iconographicum mythologiae classicaeLLAuml Lexikon der AumlgyptologieLRAC Reallexikon fuumlr Antike und Christentum
LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Mainake Mainake Estudios de arqueologiacutea Malaguentildea
MEFR Melanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome
MEFRA Meacutelanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome Antiquiteacute
MEFRM Meacutelanges de lrsquoEacutecole Franccedilaise de Rome Moyen Age
MitChrA Mitteilungen zur christlichen Archaumlologie
MKKS Muumlze Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu
MM Madrider Mitteilungen
Museacuteon Le Museacuteon Revue drsquoeacutetudes orientales
OumlJh Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in Wien
OpArch Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom Opuscula archaeologica
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Peristil Peristil Zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti
PriloziZagreb Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu
QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine
RA Revue archeacuteologique
RACr Rivista di archeologia cristiana
RB Revue biblique
RBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen Kunst Begruumlndet von K Wessel und M Restle Herausgege-Herausgege-ben von M Restle (Stuttgart)
RCHM Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
RHVaud Revue historique vaudoise
StudMisc Peter Johnson - Roger Ling - David J Smith (ed) Fifth International Colloquium on AncientMosaics held at Bath England on September 5 ndash 12 Ann Arbor Michigan 1994 et 1995(Actes du Ve colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique) (JRA SupplementarySeries 9) (2 vol)
TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
Traditio Traditio Studies in Ancient and Medieval History Thought and Religion
TuumlrkAD Tuumlrk Arkeoloji Dergisi
WO Die Welt des Orients
ZDPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaumlstina-Vereins
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Marek Titien OLSZEWSKI
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 659
1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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Marek Titien Olszewski662
was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexiv
1540 - 1600Early Byzant983145ne Mosa983145cs W983145th Person983145f983145cat983145ons FromTurkey And Syr983145aChr983145st983145ne Kondoleon
El Mosa983145co Pav983145mental De La Basiacutel983145ca De L983145lla Del Re983145G983145sela R983145poll Catal983145na MasM983145guel Aacutengel Cau
1600 - 1620Corpus Of Late Ant983145que And Early Chr983145st983145an Mosa983145csIn Bulgar983145aAlexander L983145rsch
Mosa983145cs In Ant983145och A Morpholog983145cal Observat983145onD983145klah Zohar
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630 - 1640 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 7Moderator Mar983145a Andaloro
Panel 8Moderator B983145rol Can
1640 - 1700Pompe983145opol983145s ( Taşkoumlpruuml )Lu983145sa Musso
La Produz983145one Pav983145mentale Pugl983145ese Tra Tardoant983145coE Med983145oevo Evoluz983145one Tecn983145ca E St983145l983145st983145caCarr983145no Rachele
1700 - 1720La ma983145son des deux l983145ons agrave CarthageAiumlcha Ben-AbedBen Khader - Cather983145ne Balmelle
Putt983145ng In Context Two Mosa983145cs Of Okeanos AndThalassaDelph983145ne Renaut
1720 - 1740
1740 - 1800 DISCUSSION
1900 - 2200 DINNER Mevlev983145 Presentat983145on
17 October 2009 Saturday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 9Moderator Luisa Musso
Panel 10Moderator Asuman Baldıran
0900 - 0920New Mosaics at the Colonia Patricia CordubaFrancesc Josep de Rueda Roigeacute
Parallel Research Fresco Painting Of Chora AndSopocani Violeta C OcokoljicJugoslav Ocokoljic
0920 - 0940Sailing in the Dead Sea - Madaba Map MosaicZaraza Friedman
Mosaique funeacuteraire drsquoOrpheacutee de Jerusalem auMuseacutee Archeacuteologique drsquoIstanbul CompleacutementdrsquoenquecircteMarek Titien Olszewski
0940 - 1000Literary References on Three Roman MosaicPanelsSarah E Cox
Mosaics from Antioch Chronological Implicationsfor Other RegionsRuth Kolarik
1000 - 1020I Mosaici delle Basiliche Paleocristianedellrsquoisola di CosLorella Maria De Matteis
The Marble Floor Decoration in ConstantinopleProlegomen to a Corpus Alessandra Guiglia
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 11Moderator Derya Şahin
Panel 12Moderator Zaraza Friedman
1040 - 1100
Conservative Approaches In The SynagogueMosaic Pavements In Israel The Cases Of lsquoeinGedi And Sepphoris Zippori Asher Ovadiah
Theatre and Art Mosaics as Evidence forDramatic PerformanceKatherine Dunbabin
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xv
1100 - 1020Late Antique Tombs With Mosaics In AncientHalikarnassosDavid Parrish - Birte Poulsen
A Propos Des Opus Sectile Deacutecouverts Dans LaMaison Du Cours Pourtoules (orange-vaucluse)Eric Morvillez
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 13Moderator Birte Poulsen
Panel 14Moderator Asher Ovadiah
1215 - 1235The Mosaic Pavement of the Early ChristianBasilica At GoumlnenGerme In Mysia laquoHellespontraquoWerner Jobst
Oriental motifs and patterns in the mosaic art ofTarragonaRosario Navarro
1235 - 1255The Vith Century Floor Mosaic Of The Church OfKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) Ulderico Santamaria - Claudia Pelosi
The Marble Omphalos Of The St Sophia OfConstantinople Analysis Of An Opus SectilePavement Of The Middle Byzantine PeriodSilvia Pedone
1255 - 1315Torba Manastır Kompleksi Mozaikleri M Aykut Oumlzet
The Marble Floor Of St John Studius InConstantinople A Forgotten MasterpieceClaudia Barsanti
1315 - 1330Sardisrsquoteki Geccedil Roma-Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaikleriEmine Tok
Mylasa Mozaikleri Abuzer Kızıl
1330 - 1345 DISCUSSION
1400 - 2200 DERECİK ( BUumlYUumlKORHAN ) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
18 October 2009 Sunday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 15Moderator Hakan Mert
Panel 16Moderator Michel E Fuchs
0900 - 0920Basic Criteria for the Preservation of Mosaics AGuide for Archaeologists ISelccediluk Şener
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between Eastand WestZeev Weiss
0920 - 0940
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as aManagement Activity of Archaeological Sites AGuide for Archaeologists IIHande Koumlkten
Une Grande Famille de Deacutecors GeacuteomeacutetriquesBernard Parzysz
0940 - 1000
Display of Ancient Mosaics İn Situ Tourism as anInuential Factor Steering the Decision MakingProcessŞehriguumll Yeşil Erdek
Mosaicos Mitoloacutegicos de Zeugma Y de Hispania Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
1000 - 1020 A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of TurkeyCondition Survey of MosaicsHande Koumlkten
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of SaintEirene at Constantinople Alessandro Taddei
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 2200 IZNIK (NICEA) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexvi
19 October 2009 Monday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 17Moderator Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Panel 18Moderator Veronika Scheibelreiter
0900 - 0920Signs of the Progression of Time in RomanMosaic ArtMaja Kramer
Une Nouvelle Mosaiumlque sur lrsquooppidum drsquoAlegraves(Gard France) Veacuteronique Blanc- BijonFabienne Olmer
0920 - 0940 Antikccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At Ikonograsi Emine Koumlker
The Latest Archaeological Discoveries about theMediana MosaicsGordana Jeremic
0940 - 1000New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa ATorre Annunziata ItalyJohn R Clarke - Lea Cline
Architekturdarstellungen auf roumlmischen MosaikenKleinasienHakan Mert
1000 - 1020Late Antiquity Mosaics in Portugal Virgilio Lopez
Orpheus Some Metaphors in MosaicNeil Cookson
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 19Moderator Selccediluk Şener
Panel 20Moderator Patricia Witts
1040 - 1100Opus Sectile Pavements From Western AsiaMinor Veronika Scheibelreiter
The First Roman Mosaics Discovered in CetobrigaCarlos Tavares da Silva - Joaquina Soares -Liciacutenia Wrench
1100 - 1020
Indagini Archeologiche A Palazzo ValentiniunQuartiere Residenziale Ai Margini Del ForoTraianoPaola Baldassarri
Olympos Mozaikli YapıGeccedil Antik Ccedilağ - Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaiklerinin Teknik ve Stil Değerlendirmesi Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 21Moderator Hande Koumlkten
Panel 22Moderator Liciacutenia Wrench
1215 - 1235Mosaic Studies And Souvenirs Leaving no StoneUnturnedPatricia Witts
The Mosaic of Leukippe and Theonoe in theKointos Villa in ZeugmaPaolo Vitellozzi
1235 - 1255Notice Mosaic of laquothe House of Medusaraquo(portugal Alter do Chatildeo)Maria Teresa Caetano
Metropolis Mozaikleri Ali Kazım Oumlz
1255 - 1315 Zeugma Danae Evinin MozaikleriMehmet Oumlnal
Mosaicos Con la Iconograa de Thethismadre
de Aquiles en Turquia Y en Otros Enclaves delImperio RomanoMercedes Duran Penedo
1315 - 1330 LUNCH
1330 - 1530 AIEMA MEETING
DISENGAGED DINNER
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xvii
20 October 2009 Tuesday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 23Moderator Mehmet Onal
Panel 24Moderator Paolo Vitellozzi
0900 - 0920De Que Hablamos Cuando Hablamos de TalleresMusivos Tardios en HispaniaMercedes Torres Carro
The Bejewelled Lady of SinopeFuumlsun Tuumllek
0920 - 0940 A new reading of the Dor mosaicIdit Sagiv-Hayik
Milli Azerbaycan Tarihi Muumlzesinde Hristyan AbideleriFariz Halilli
0940 - 1000Konya Tatkoumly ve Alibeykoumly Houmlyuumlğuuml Mozaikleri Asuman Baldıran- Osman Doğanay
Salamis Kenti Opus Sectile Taban Doumlşemeleri Aytaccedil Coşkun
1000 - 1020Il Mosaico di Metiochos E Parthenope da ZeugmaLucia Romizzi - Andrea Carini
Non-Destructive Investigations on Mosaic of theChurch of the Three HierarchsM Geba - N Vornicu - C Bibire
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 25Moderator Işıl R Işıklıkaya
Panel 26Moderator Luz Neira
1040 - 1100
Late Antique Private Luxury The Mosaic FloorsOf The Urban Mansion Of Sagalassos (ağlasunBurdur)Inge Uytterhoeven - Hande Koumlkten - MarcWaelkens - Markku Corremans
The Role of Late Antique Art in Early ChristianWorship A Reconsideration of the Iconographyof The lsquostarry Skyrsquo in Mosaics of the Late 5th -Early 6th C AdEllen Swift - Anne Alwis
1100 - 1020The Early Christian Mosaics with the Inscriptionsin CroatiaMarija Buzov
La Construccioacuten de las identidades de geacutenero atraveacutes de los mosaicos antioquenosJesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 27Moderator Marija Buzov
Panel 28Moderator Maja Kramer
1215 - 1235Kaunos Kubbeli Kilise Ek Yapısırsquondaki TabanMozaiği Ayşe Aydın
El Thiasos Marino en los Mosaicos Romanos deTurquiacuteaLuz Neira
1235 - 1255
The Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics Bugini RobertoFolli Luisa Portulano BrunellaRofa Elisabetta
A stibadium with a mosaic in the Roman Villa ofRabaccedilal Penela PortugalMiguel Pessoa
1255 - 1315
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romainede Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de AlgarveMaria De Jesus Duran Kremer
Mosaiumlques mythologiques de Zeugma Originaliteacuteet Liens iconographiques avec la peinturepompeacuteienne et les mosaiumlques italiques etafricains du I-II siegravecleLucia Romizzi
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexviii
HALL A HALL B
Panel 29Moderator Maria Kremer
Panel 30Moderator Miguel Pessoa
1500 - 1520
The Vases Representation (cantharus Crater)on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Signicant
Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late AntiquityFilomena Limatildeo
The Rape of Hylas and the Spectacles of the Amphitheatre on a Floor Mosaic from Volubilis
(Morocco)Margherita Carucci
1520 - 1540The Herakles mosaic discovered in Homs (Syria)Komait Abdallah
Myndos MosaicsDerya Şahin
1540 - 1600Les Mosaiumlques Agrave Thegraveme MythologiqueReacutecemment Deacutecouvertes Agrave NicircmesJean-yves Breuil
A Late Antique Residence in Augusta TraianaProvince of ThraceJulia Valeva
1600 - 1620Floor mosaics from a Roman villa in NinJagoda Meder
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of ItalicaFirmament ImagesIrene Mantildeas Romero
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630FREE TIME- BURSA -
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KISALTMALAR ABBREVIATIONS
AA Archaeologischer Anzeiger
Abulg Archaeologia Bulgarica
Acontia Acontia Revista de arqueologiacutea
ActaInstRomFin Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae
AEspA Archivo espantildeol de arqueologiacutea
AISCOM LrsquoAssociazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico
AJA American Journal of Archaelology
AJug Archaeologia JugoslavicaAM Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts Athenische Abteilung
AMethTh Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
AMS Asia Minor Studien
AnatoliaA Anatolia Antiqua
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der roumlmischen Welt
AnSt Anatolian Studies
AntAfr Antiquiteacutes africaines
AntigCr Antiguumledad y Cristianismo Monografiacuteas histoacutericas sobre la antiguumledad tardiacutea
AntK Antike Kunst
AntTard Antiquiteacute tardive Revue internationale drsquohistoire et drsquoarcheacuteologie
APregl Arheološki pregled Arheološko društvo JugoslavijeAquilNost Aquileia nostra Bollettino dellrsquoAssociazione nazionale per Aquileia
ArchCl Archeologia classica
Archeologia Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Published by the Society ofAntiquaries of London
ArtB The Art Bulletin
ASSAPH Assaph Studies in Art History
AST Araştırma Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
Atiqot Atiqot Journal of the Israel Department of Antiquities
AttiMemIstria Atti e memorie della Societagrave istriana di archeologia e storia patria
AW Antike Welt Zeitschrift fuumlr Archaumlologie und Kulturgeschichte
BAA Bulletin drsquoarcheologie algerienneBABesch Bulletin antieke beschaving Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology
BAcHist Boletiacuten de la Real academia de la historia
Baetica Baetica Estudios de arte geografiacutea e historia
BAR British Archaeological Reports British Series
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BCH Bulletin de correspondance helleacutenique
BCom Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma
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BCTH Bulletin archeacuteologique du Comiteacute des travaux historiques et scientifiques Paris
BdA Bollettino drsquoarte
BEFAR Bibliothegraveque des Ecoles franccedilaises drsquoAthegravenes et de Rome
Belleten Belleten Tuumlrk Tarih Kurumu
BJb Bonner Jahrbuumlcher des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn
BMQ The British Museum Quarterly BMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
Boreas Boreas Muumlnstersche Beitraumlge zur Archaumlologie
BSA The British school of Archaeology at Athens
BSEAA Boletin del Seminario de estudios de arte y arqueologia
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
BT Babylonian Talmud
BullAIEMA Bulletin de lrsquoAssociation internationale pour lrsquoetude de la mosaique antique
BullMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
CArch Cahiers archeacuteologiques
CEDAC CEDAC Bulletin Centre drsquoeacutetudes et de documentation archeacuteologique de la conservation deCartage
CEFR Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome
Chiron Chiron Mitteilungen der Kommission fuumlr Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des DeutschenArchaumlologischen Instituts
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
ClJ The Classical Journal
CMG Convegni di studi sulla Magna Grecia
CMGR I La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane I H STERN - G Ch PICARD (eds) Paris 1965 (Actes du Iercolloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Paris 30 aoucirct-3 septembre 1963)
CMGR II La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane II H STERN - M LE GAY (eds) Paris 1975 (Actes du IIe
colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Vienne-Isegravere 30 aoucirct-4septembre 1971)
CMGR III III Colloquio internazionale sul mosaico antico R FARIOLI CAMPANATI (eacuted) Ravenna1983 (Actes du IIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Ravenna6-10 septembre 1980)
CMGR IV La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane IV J -P DARMON - A REBOURG (eds) Paris 1994 (Actesdu IVe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique TregravevesTrier 8-14 aoucirct1984)
CMGR V Fifth Interneational Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics 1 - 2 P Johnson R Ling D J Smith(eds) Ann Arbor M1 1994 and 1995 (Actes du V e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de lamosaiumlque antique Bath 5-12 septembre 1987) (JRA supp9)
CMGR VI VI Col loquio internacional s obre mosaico ant iquo Palenc ia-Meacuterida Octubre 199 0D Fernandez GALIANO (ed) Guadalajara 1994 (Actes du VIe colloque international pour
lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Palencia-Meacuterida octobre 1990)CMGR VII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VII M ENNAIFER - A REBOURG (eds) Tunis 1999 (Actes
du VIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Tunis 3-7 octobre 1994)
CMGR VIII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VIII D PAUNNIER - Chr SCHMIDT (eds) Lausanne 2001(Actes du VIIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevaleLausanne 6-11 octobre 1997) Cahiers drsquoArcheacuteologie Romande 85-86
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviations xxi
CMGR IX La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine IX Heacutelegravene MORLIER (eacuted) Rome 2005 (Actes du IXe colloqueinternational pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome Eacutecole franccedilaisePalazzo Altemps 5 ndash 10 novembre 2001) (Coll EFR 352) (2 vol)
CMGR X La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine X (in Publised)
CMGR XI XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve AntikDoumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi Mozaiklerin Başlan-gıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi Stil ve Teknik uumlzerine Sorular 11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS Mosaics of Turkey andParallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World Questions ofIconography Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late ByzantineEra Mustafa ŞAHİN (Ed) Bursa 2009 (İstanbul 2011)
DNP Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopaumldie der Antike
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Empuacuteries Empuacuteries Revista de prehistograveria arqueologia i etnologia
EPRO Etudes preacuteliminaires aux religions orientales dans lrsquoempire romain
ExcIsr Excavations and Surveys in Israel
Expedition Expedition The Magazine of Archaeology Anthropology
FiE Forschungen in EphesosForschungen I -III Forschungen in Salona I Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institute
Gallia Gallia Fouilles et monuments archeacuteologiques en France metropolitaine
Habis Habis Universidad de Sevilla Arqueologiacutea filologiacutea claacutesica
Historia Historia Zeitschrift fuumlr Alte Geschichte
HistriaAnt Histria antiqua Casopis Međunarodnog Istraživačkog Centra za Arheologiju Journal of theInternational Research Centre for Archeology
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Iliria Iliria Revisteuml arkeologjike
IMT Paul Gauckler Inventaire des mosaiumlques de la Gaule et de lrsquoAfrique tome II AfriqueProconsulaire (Tunisie) Paris 1910 Suppleacutement Alfred Merlin Paris 1915
IstForsch Istanbuler Forschungen
IstMitt Istanbuler Mitteilungen
IvE Inschriften griechischer Staumldte aus Kleinasien
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JAT Journal of Ancient Topography - Rivista di topografia antica
JbAC Jahrbuch fuumlr Antike und Christentum
JbOumlByz Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JdI Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts
JHS The Journal of Hellenic Studies
JMR Journal of Mosaic Research
JOumlAI Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in WienJOumlB Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
JRS The Journal of Roman Studies
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
Klio Klio Beitraumlge zur alten Geschichte
Kokalos Kώκαλος Studi pubblicati dallacuteIstituto di storia antica dellacuteUniversitagrave di Palermo
KST Kazı Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
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LA Liber Annuus Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Jeacuterusalem
Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
Le Deacutecor II C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J-P DARMON S GOZLAN M-P RAYNAUDLe deacutecor geacuteomeacutetrique de la Mosaiumlque Romaine II Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif desdeacutecors centreacutes Paris 2002
LIMC Lexikon iconographicum mythologiae classicaeLLAuml Lexikon der AumlgyptologieLRAC Reallexikon fuumlr Antike und Christentum
LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Mainake Mainake Estudios de arqueologiacutea Malaguentildea
MEFR Melanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome
MEFRA Meacutelanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome Antiquiteacute
MEFRM Meacutelanges de lrsquoEacutecole Franccedilaise de Rome Moyen Age
MitChrA Mitteilungen zur christlichen Archaumlologie
MKKS Muumlze Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu
MM Madrider Mitteilungen
Museacuteon Le Museacuteon Revue drsquoeacutetudes orientales
OumlJh Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in Wien
OpArch Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom Opuscula archaeologica
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Peristil Peristil Zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti
PriloziZagreb Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu
QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine
RA Revue archeacuteologique
RACr Rivista di archeologia cristiana
RB Revue biblique
RBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen Kunst Begruumlndet von K Wessel und M Restle Herausgege-Herausgege-ben von M Restle (Stuttgart)
RCHM Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
RHVaud Revue historique vaudoise
StudMisc Peter Johnson - Roger Ling - David J Smith (ed) Fifth International Colloquium on AncientMosaics held at Bath England on September 5 ndash 12 Ann Arbor Michigan 1994 et 1995(Actes du Ve colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique) (JRA SupplementarySeries 9) (2 vol)
TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
Traditio Traditio Studies in Ancient and Medieval History Thought and Religion
TuumlrkAD Tuumlrk Arkeoloji Dergisi
WO Die Welt des Orients
ZDPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaumlstina-Vereins
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Marek Titien OLSZEWSKI
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 659
1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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Marek Titien Olszewski662
was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xv
1100 - 1020Late Antique Tombs With Mosaics In AncientHalikarnassosDavid Parrish - Birte Poulsen
A Propos Des Opus Sectile Deacutecouverts Dans LaMaison Du Cours Pourtoules (orange-vaucluse)Eric Morvillez
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 13Moderator Birte Poulsen
Panel 14Moderator Asher Ovadiah
1215 - 1235The Mosaic Pavement of the Early ChristianBasilica At GoumlnenGerme In Mysia laquoHellespontraquoWerner Jobst
Oriental motifs and patterns in the mosaic art ofTarragonaRosario Navarro
1235 - 1255The Vith Century Floor Mosaic Of The Church OfKuumlccediluumlk Tavşan Adası (Bodrum) Ulderico Santamaria - Claudia Pelosi
The Marble Omphalos Of The St Sophia OfConstantinople Analysis Of An Opus SectilePavement Of The Middle Byzantine PeriodSilvia Pedone
1255 - 1315Torba Manastır Kompleksi Mozaikleri M Aykut Oumlzet
The Marble Floor Of St John Studius InConstantinople A Forgotten MasterpieceClaudia Barsanti
1315 - 1330Sardisrsquoteki Geccedil Roma-Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaikleriEmine Tok
Mylasa Mozaikleri Abuzer Kızıl
1330 - 1345 DISCUSSION
1400 - 2200 DERECİK ( BUumlYUumlKORHAN ) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
18 October 2009 Sunday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 15Moderator Hakan Mert
Panel 16Moderator Michel E Fuchs
0900 - 0920Basic Criteria for the Preservation of Mosaics AGuide for Archaeologists ISelccediluk Şener
Mosaic Art in Ancient Sepphoris Between Eastand WestZeev Weiss
0920 - 0940
Preventive Conservation of Mosaics as aManagement Activity of Archaeological Sites AGuide for Archaeologists IIHande Koumlkten
Une Grande Famille de Deacutecors GeacuteomeacutetriquesBernard Parzysz
0940 - 1000
Display of Ancient Mosaics İn Situ Tourism as anInuential Factor Steering the Decision MakingProcessŞehriguumll Yeşil Erdek
Mosaicos Mitoloacutegicos de Zeugma Y de Hispania Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
1000 - 1020 A Step Forward in the Mosaic Corpus of TurkeyCondition Survey of MosaicsHande Koumlkten
Remarks on the Decorative Wall-mosaics of SaintEirene at Constantinople Alessandro Taddei
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 2200 IZNIK (NICEA) TOUR
DISENGAGED DINNER
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexvi
19 October 2009 Monday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 17Moderator Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Panel 18Moderator Veronika Scheibelreiter
0900 - 0920Signs of the Progression of Time in RomanMosaic ArtMaja Kramer
Une Nouvelle Mosaiumlque sur lrsquooppidum drsquoAlegraves(Gard France) Veacuteronique Blanc- BijonFabienne Olmer
0920 - 0940 Antikccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At Ikonograsi Emine Koumlker
The Latest Archaeological Discoveries about theMediana MosaicsGordana Jeremic
0940 - 1000New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa ATorre Annunziata ItalyJohn R Clarke - Lea Cline
Architekturdarstellungen auf roumlmischen MosaikenKleinasienHakan Mert
1000 - 1020Late Antiquity Mosaics in Portugal Virgilio Lopez
Orpheus Some Metaphors in MosaicNeil Cookson
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 19Moderator Selccediluk Şener
Panel 20Moderator Patricia Witts
1040 - 1100Opus Sectile Pavements From Western AsiaMinor Veronika Scheibelreiter
The First Roman Mosaics Discovered in CetobrigaCarlos Tavares da Silva - Joaquina Soares -Liciacutenia Wrench
1100 - 1020
Indagini Archeologiche A Palazzo ValentiniunQuartiere Residenziale Ai Margini Del ForoTraianoPaola Baldassarri
Olympos Mozaikli YapıGeccedil Antik Ccedilağ - Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaiklerinin Teknik ve Stil Değerlendirmesi Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 21Moderator Hande Koumlkten
Panel 22Moderator Liciacutenia Wrench
1215 - 1235Mosaic Studies And Souvenirs Leaving no StoneUnturnedPatricia Witts
The Mosaic of Leukippe and Theonoe in theKointos Villa in ZeugmaPaolo Vitellozzi
1235 - 1255Notice Mosaic of laquothe House of Medusaraquo(portugal Alter do Chatildeo)Maria Teresa Caetano
Metropolis Mozaikleri Ali Kazım Oumlz
1255 - 1315 Zeugma Danae Evinin MozaikleriMehmet Oumlnal
Mosaicos Con la Iconograa de Thethismadre
de Aquiles en Turquia Y en Otros Enclaves delImperio RomanoMercedes Duran Penedo
1315 - 1330 LUNCH
1330 - 1530 AIEMA MEETING
DISENGAGED DINNER
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xvii
20 October 2009 Tuesday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 23Moderator Mehmet Onal
Panel 24Moderator Paolo Vitellozzi
0900 - 0920De Que Hablamos Cuando Hablamos de TalleresMusivos Tardios en HispaniaMercedes Torres Carro
The Bejewelled Lady of SinopeFuumlsun Tuumllek
0920 - 0940 A new reading of the Dor mosaicIdit Sagiv-Hayik
Milli Azerbaycan Tarihi Muumlzesinde Hristyan AbideleriFariz Halilli
0940 - 1000Konya Tatkoumly ve Alibeykoumly Houmlyuumlğuuml Mozaikleri Asuman Baldıran- Osman Doğanay
Salamis Kenti Opus Sectile Taban Doumlşemeleri Aytaccedil Coşkun
1000 - 1020Il Mosaico di Metiochos E Parthenope da ZeugmaLucia Romizzi - Andrea Carini
Non-Destructive Investigations on Mosaic of theChurch of the Three HierarchsM Geba - N Vornicu - C Bibire
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 25Moderator Işıl R Işıklıkaya
Panel 26Moderator Luz Neira
1040 - 1100
Late Antique Private Luxury The Mosaic FloorsOf The Urban Mansion Of Sagalassos (ağlasunBurdur)Inge Uytterhoeven - Hande Koumlkten - MarcWaelkens - Markku Corremans
The Role of Late Antique Art in Early ChristianWorship A Reconsideration of the Iconographyof The lsquostarry Skyrsquo in Mosaics of the Late 5th -Early 6th C AdEllen Swift - Anne Alwis
1100 - 1020The Early Christian Mosaics with the Inscriptionsin CroatiaMarija Buzov
La Construccioacuten de las identidades de geacutenero atraveacutes de los mosaicos antioquenosJesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 27Moderator Marija Buzov
Panel 28Moderator Maja Kramer
1215 - 1235Kaunos Kubbeli Kilise Ek Yapısırsquondaki TabanMozaiği Ayşe Aydın
El Thiasos Marino en los Mosaicos Romanos deTurquiacuteaLuz Neira
1235 - 1255
The Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics Bugini RobertoFolli Luisa Portulano BrunellaRofa Elisabetta
A stibadium with a mosaic in the Roman Villa ofRabaccedilal Penela PortugalMiguel Pessoa
1255 - 1315
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romainede Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de AlgarveMaria De Jesus Duran Kremer
Mosaiumlques mythologiques de Zeugma Originaliteacuteet Liens iconographiques avec la peinturepompeacuteienne et les mosaiumlques italiques etafricains du I-II siegravecleLucia Romizzi
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexviii
HALL A HALL B
Panel 29Moderator Maria Kremer
Panel 30Moderator Miguel Pessoa
1500 - 1520
The Vases Representation (cantharus Crater)on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Signicant
Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late AntiquityFilomena Limatildeo
The Rape of Hylas and the Spectacles of the Amphitheatre on a Floor Mosaic from Volubilis
(Morocco)Margherita Carucci
1520 - 1540The Herakles mosaic discovered in Homs (Syria)Komait Abdallah
Myndos MosaicsDerya Şahin
1540 - 1600Les Mosaiumlques Agrave Thegraveme MythologiqueReacutecemment Deacutecouvertes Agrave NicircmesJean-yves Breuil
A Late Antique Residence in Augusta TraianaProvince of ThraceJulia Valeva
1600 - 1620Floor mosaics from a Roman villa in NinJagoda Meder
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of ItalicaFirmament ImagesIrene Mantildeas Romero
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630FREE TIME- BURSA -
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KISALTMALAR ABBREVIATIONS
AA Archaeologischer Anzeiger
Abulg Archaeologia Bulgarica
Acontia Acontia Revista de arqueologiacutea
ActaInstRomFin Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae
AEspA Archivo espantildeol de arqueologiacutea
AISCOM LrsquoAssociazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico
AJA American Journal of Archaelology
AJug Archaeologia JugoslavicaAM Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts Athenische Abteilung
AMethTh Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
AMS Asia Minor Studien
AnatoliaA Anatolia Antiqua
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der roumlmischen Welt
AnSt Anatolian Studies
AntAfr Antiquiteacutes africaines
AntigCr Antiguumledad y Cristianismo Monografiacuteas histoacutericas sobre la antiguumledad tardiacutea
AntK Antike Kunst
AntTard Antiquiteacute tardive Revue internationale drsquohistoire et drsquoarcheacuteologie
APregl Arheološki pregled Arheološko društvo JugoslavijeAquilNost Aquileia nostra Bollettino dellrsquoAssociazione nazionale per Aquileia
ArchCl Archeologia classica
Archeologia Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Published by the Society ofAntiquaries of London
ArtB The Art Bulletin
ASSAPH Assaph Studies in Art History
AST Araştırma Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
Atiqot Atiqot Journal of the Israel Department of Antiquities
AttiMemIstria Atti e memorie della Societagrave istriana di archeologia e storia patria
AW Antike Welt Zeitschrift fuumlr Archaumlologie und Kulturgeschichte
BAA Bulletin drsquoarcheologie algerienneBABesch Bulletin antieke beschaving Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology
BAcHist Boletiacuten de la Real academia de la historia
Baetica Baetica Estudios de arte geografiacutea e historia
BAR British Archaeological Reports British Series
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BCH Bulletin de correspondance helleacutenique
BCom Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma
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BCTH Bulletin archeacuteologique du Comiteacute des travaux historiques et scientifiques Paris
BdA Bollettino drsquoarte
BEFAR Bibliothegraveque des Ecoles franccedilaises drsquoAthegravenes et de Rome
Belleten Belleten Tuumlrk Tarih Kurumu
BJb Bonner Jahrbuumlcher des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn
BMQ The British Museum Quarterly BMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
Boreas Boreas Muumlnstersche Beitraumlge zur Archaumlologie
BSA The British school of Archaeology at Athens
BSEAA Boletin del Seminario de estudios de arte y arqueologia
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
BT Babylonian Talmud
BullAIEMA Bulletin de lrsquoAssociation internationale pour lrsquoetude de la mosaique antique
BullMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
CArch Cahiers archeacuteologiques
CEDAC CEDAC Bulletin Centre drsquoeacutetudes et de documentation archeacuteologique de la conservation deCartage
CEFR Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome
Chiron Chiron Mitteilungen der Kommission fuumlr Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des DeutschenArchaumlologischen Instituts
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
ClJ The Classical Journal
CMG Convegni di studi sulla Magna Grecia
CMGR I La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane I H STERN - G Ch PICARD (eds) Paris 1965 (Actes du Iercolloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Paris 30 aoucirct-3 septembre 1963)
CMGR II La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane II H STERN - M LE GAY (eds) Paris 1975 (Actes du IIe
colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Vienne-Isegravere 30 aoucirct-4septembre 1971)
CMGR III III Colloquio internazionale sul mosaico antico R FARIOLI CAMPANATI (eacuted) Ravenna1983 (Actes du IIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Ravenna6-10 septembre 1980)
CMGR IV La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane IV J -P DARMON - A REBOURG (eds) Paris 1994 (Actesdu IVe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique TregravevesTrier 8-14 aoucirct1984)
CMGR V Fifth Interneational Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics 1 - 2 P Johnson R Ling D J Smith(eds) Ann Arbor M1 1994 and 1995 (Actes du V e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de lamosaiumlque antique Bath 5-12 septembre 1987) (JRA supp9)
CMGR VI VI Col loquio internacional s obre mosaico ant iquo Palenc ia-Meacuterida Octubre 199 0D Fernandez GALIANO (ed) Guadalajara 1994 (Actes du VIe colloque international pour
lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Palencia-Meacuterida octobre 1990)CMGR VII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VII M ENNAIFER - A REBOURG (eds) Tunis 1999 (Actes
du VIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Tunis 3-7 octobre 1994)
CMGR VIII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VIII D PAUNNIER - Chr SCHMIDT (eds) Lausanne 2001(Actes du VIIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevaleLausanne 6-11 octobre 1997) Cahiers drsquoArcheacuteologie Romande 85-86
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviations xxi
CMGR IX La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine IX Heacutelegravene MORLIER (eacuted) Rome 2005 (Actes du IXe colloqueinternational pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome Eacutecole franccedilaisePalazzo Altemps 5 ndash 10 novembre 2001) (Coll EFR 352) (2 vol)
CMGR X La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine X (in Publised)
CMGR XI XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve AntikDoumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi Mozaiklerin Başlan-gıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi Stil ve Teknik uumlzerine Sorular 11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS Mosaics of Turkey andParallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World Questions ofIconography Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late ByzantineEra Mustafa ŞAHİN (Ed) Bursa 2009 (İstanbul 2011)
DNP Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopaumldie der Antike
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Empuacuteries Empuacuteries Revista de prehistograveria arqueologia i etnologia
EPRO Etudes preacuteliminaires aux religions orientales dans lrsquoempire romain
ExcIsr Excavations and Surveys in Israel
Expedition Expedition The Magazine of Archaeology Anthropology
FiE Forschungen in EphesosForschungen I -III Forschungen in Salona I Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institute
Gallia Gallia Fouilles et monuments archeacuteologiques en France metropolitaine
Habis Habis Universidad de Sevilla Arqueologiacutea filologiacutea claacutesica
Historia Historia Zeitschrift fuumlr Alte Geschichte
HistriaAnt Histria antiqua Casopis Međunarodnog Istraživačkog Centra za Arheologiju Journal of theInternational Research Centre for Archeology
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Iliria Iliria Revisteuml arkeologjike
IMT Paul Gauckler Inventaire des mosaiumlques de la Gaule et de lrsquoAfrique tome II AfriqueProconsulaire (Tunisie) Paris 1910 Suppleacutement Alfred Merlin Paris 1915
IstForsch Istanbuler Forschungen
IstMitt Istanbuler Mitteilungen
IvE Inschriften griechischer Staumldte aus Kleinasien
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JAT Journal of Ancient Topography - Rivista di topografia antica
JbAC Jahrbuch fuumlr Antike und Christentum
JbOumlByz Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JdI Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts
JHS The Journal of Hellenic Studies
JMR Journal of Mosaic Research
JOumlAI Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in WienJOumlB Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
JRS The Journal of Roman Studies
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
Klio Klio Beitraumlge zur alten Geschichte
Kokalos Kώκαλος Studi pubblicati dallacuteIstituto di storia antica dellacuteUniversitagrave di Palermo
KST Kazı Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxxii
LA Liber Annuus Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Jeacuterusalem
Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
Le Deacutecor II C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J-P DARMON S GOZLAN M-P RAYNAUDLe deacutecor geacuteomeacutetrique de la Mosaiumlque Romaine II Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif desdeacutecors centreacutes Paris 2002
LIMC Lexikon iconographicum mythologiae classicaeLLAuml Lexikon der AumlgyptologieLRAC Reallexikon fuumlr Antike und Christentum
LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Mainake Mainake Estudios de arqueologiacutea Malaguentildea
MEFR Melanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome
MEFRA Meacutelanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome Antiquiteacute
MEFRM Meacutelanges de lrsquoEacutecole Franccedilaise de Rome Moyen Age
MitChrA Mitteilungen zur christlichen Archaumlologie
MKKS Muumlze Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu
MM Madrider Mitteilungen
Museacuteon Le Museacuteon Revue drsquoeacutetudes orientales
OumlJh Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in Wien
OpArch Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom Opuscula archaeologica
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Peristil Peristil Zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti
PriloziZagreb Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu
QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine
RA Revue archeacuteologique
RACr Rivista di archeologia cristiana
RB Revue biblique
RBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen Kunst Begruumlndet von K Wessel und M Restle Herausgege-Herausgege-ben von M Restle (Stuttgart)
RCHM Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
RHVaud Revue historique vaudoise
StudMisc Peter Johnson - Roger Ling - David J Smith (ed) Fifth International Colloquium on AncientMosaics held at Bath England on September 5 ndash 12 Ann Arbor Michigan 1994 et 1995(Actes du Ve colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique) (JRA SupplementarySeries 9) (2 vol)
TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
Traditio Traditio Studies in Ancient and Medieval History Thought and Religion
TuumlrkAD Tuumlrk Arkeoloji Dergisi
WO Die Welt des Orients
ZDPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaumlstina-Vereins
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Marek Titien OLSZEWSKI
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 659
1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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Marek Titien Olszewski662
was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexvi
19 October 2009 Monday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 17Moderator Joseacute Mariacutea Blaacutezquez
Panel 18Moderator Veronika Scheibelreiter
0900 - 0920Signs of the Progression of Time in RomanMosaic ArtMaja Kramer
Une Nouvelle Mosaiumlque sur lrsquooppidum drsquoAlegraves(Gard France) Veacuteronique Blanc- BijonFabienne Olmer
0920 - 0940 Antikccedilağ Mozaiklerinde At Ikonograsi Emine Koumlker
The Latest Archaeological Discoveries about theMediana MosaicsGordana Jeremic
0940 - 1000New Light on Mosaic Metrics Research at Villa ATorre Annunziata ItalyJohn R Clarke - Lea Cline
Architekturdarstellungen auf roumlmischen MosaikenKleinasienHakan Mert
1000 - 1020Late Antiquity Mosaics in Portugal Virgilio Lopez
Orpheus Some Metaphors in MosaicNeil Cookson
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 19Moderator Selccediluk Şener
Panel 20Moderator Patricia Witts
1040 - 1100Opus Sectile Pavements From Western AsiaMinor Veronika Scheibelreiter
The First Roman Mosaics Discovered in CetobrigaCarlos Tavares da Silva - Joaquina Soares -Liciacutenia Wrench
1100 - 1020
Indagini Archeologiche A Palazzo ValentiniunQuartiere Residenziale Ai Margini Del ForoTraianoPaola Baldassarri
Olympos Mozaikli YapıGeccedil Antik Ccedilağ - Erken Bizans DoumlnemiMozaiklerinin Teknik ve Stil Değerlendirmesi Muradiye Oumlztaşkın
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 21Moderator Hande Koumlkten
Panel 22Moderator Liciacutenia Wrench
1215 - 1235Mosaic Studies And Souvenirs Leaving no StoneUnturnedPatricia Witts
The Mosaic of Leukippe and Theonoe in theKointos Villa in ZeugmaPaolo Vitellozzi
1235 - 1255Notice Mosaic of laquothe House of Medusaraquo(portugal Alter do Chatildeo)Maria Teresa Caetano
Metropolis Mozaikleri Ali Kazım Oumlz
1255 - 1315 Zeugma Danae Evinin MozaikleriMehmet Oumlnal
Mosaicos Con la Iconograa de Thethismadre
de Aquiles en Turquia Y en Otros Enclaves delImperio RomanoMercedes Duran Penedo
1315 - 1330 LUNCH
1330 - 1530 AIEMA MEETING
DISENGAGED DINNER
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xvii
20 October 2009 Tuesday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 23Moderator Mehmet Onal
Panel 24Moderator Paolo Vitellozzi
0900 - 0920De Que Hablamos Cuando Hablamos de TalleresMusivos Tardios en HispaniaMercedes Torres Carro
The Bejewelled Lady of SinopeFuumlsun Tuumllek
0920 - 0940 A new reading of the Dor mosaicIdit Sagiv-Hayik
Milli Azerbaycan Tarihi Muumlzesinde Hristyan AbideleriFariz Halilli
0940 - 1000Konya Tatkoumly ve Alibeykoumly Houmlyuumlğuuml Mozaikleri Asuman Baldıran- Osman Doğanay
Salamis Kenti Opus Sectile Taban Doumlşemeleri Aytaccedil Coşkun
1000 - 1020Il Mosaico di Metiochos E Parthenope da ZeugmaLucia Romizzi - Andrea Carini
Non-Destructive Investigations on Mosaic of theChurch of the Three HierarchsM Geba - N Vornicu - C Bibire
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 25Moderator Işıl R Işıklıkaya
Panel 26Moderator Luz Neira
1040 - 1100
Late Antique Private Luxury The Mosaic FloorsOf The Urban Mansion Of Sagalassos (ağlasunBurdur)Inge Uytterhoeven - Hande Koumlkten - MarcWaelkens - Markku Corremans
The Role of Late Antique Art in Early ChristianWorship A Reconsideration of the Iconographyof The lsquostarry Skyrsquo in Mosaics of the Late 5th -Early 6th C AdEllen Swift - Anne Alwis
1100 - 1020The Early Christian Mosaics with the Inscriptionsin CroatiaMarija Buzov
La Construccioacuten de las identidades de geacutenero atraveacutes de los mosaicos antioquenosJesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 27Moderator Marija Buzov
Panel 28Moderator Maja Kramer
1215 - 1235Kaunos Kubbeli Kilise Ek Yapısırsquondaki TabanMozaiği Ayşe Aydın
El Thiasos Marino en los Mosaicos Romanos deTurquiacuteaLuz Neira
1235 - 1255
The Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics Bugini RobertoFolli Luisa Portulano BrunellaRofa Elisabetta
A stibadium with a mosaic in the Roman Villa ofRabaccedilal Penela PortugalMiguel Pessoa
1255 - 1315
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romainede Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de AlgarveMaria De Jesus Duran Kremer
Mosaiumlques mythologiques de Zeugma Originaliteacuteet Liens iconographiques avec la peinturepompeacuteienne et les mosaiumlques italiques etafricains du I-II siegravecleLucia Romizzi
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexviii
HALL A HALL B
Panel 29Moderator Maria Kremer
Panel 30Moderator Miguel Pessoa
1500 - 1520
The Vases Representation (cantharus Crater)on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Signicant
Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late AntiquityFilomena Limatildeo
The Rape of Hylas and the Spectacles of the Amphitheatre on a Floor Mosaic from Volubilis
(Morocco)Margherita Carucci
1520 - 1540The Herakles mosaic discovered in Homs (Syria)Komait Abdallah
Myndos MosaicsDerya Şahin
1540 - 1600Les Mosaiumlques Agrave Thegraveme MythologiqueReacutecemment Deacutecouvertes Agrave NicircmesJean-yves Breuil
A Late Antique Residence in Augusta TraianaProvince of ThraceJulia Valeva
1600 - 1620Floor mosaics from a Roman villa in NinJagoda Meder
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of ItalicaFirmament ImagesIrene Mantildeas Romero
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630FREE TIME- BURSA -
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KISALTMALAR ABBREVIATIONS
AA Archaeologischer Anzeiger
Abulg Archaeologia Bulgarica
Acontia Acontia Revista de arqueologiacutea
ActaInstRomFin Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae
AEspA Archivo espantildeol de arqueologiacutea
AISCOM LrsquoAssociazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico
AJA American Journal of Archaelology
AJug Archaeologia JugoslavicaAM Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts Athenische Abteilung
AMethTh Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
AMS Asia Minor Studien
AnatoliaA Anatolia Antiqua
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der roumlmischen Welt
AnSt Anatolian Studies
AntAfr Antiquiteacutes africaines
AntigCr Antiguumledad y Cristianismo Monografiacuteas histoacutericas sobre la antiguumledad tardiacutea
AntK Antike Kunst
AntTard Antiquiteacute tardive Revue internationale drsquohistoire et drsquoarcheacuteologie
APregl Arheološki pregled Arheološko društvo JugoslavijeAquilNost Aquileia nostra Bollettino dellrsquoAssociazione nazionale per Aquileia
ArchCl Archeologia classica
Archeologia Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Published by the Society ofAntiquaries of London
ArtB The Art Bulletin
ASSAPH Assaph Studies in Art History
AST Araştırma Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
Atiqot Atiqot Journal of the Israel Department of Antiquities
AttiMemIstria Atti e memorie della Societagrave istriana di archeologia e storia patria
AW Antike Welt Zeitschrift fuumlr Archaumlologie und Kulturgeschichte
BAA Bulletin drsquoarcheologie algerienneBABesch Bulletin antieke beschaving Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology
BAcHist Boletiacuten de la Real academia de la historia
Baetica Baetica Estudios de arte geografiacutea e historia
BAR British Archaeological Reports British Series
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BCH Bulletin de correspondance helleacutenique
BCom Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxx
BCTH Bulletin archeacuteologique du Comiteacute des travaux historiques et scientifiques Paris
BdA Bollettino drsquoarte
BEFAR Bibliothegraveque des Ecoles franccedilaises drsquoAthegravenes et de Rome
Belleten Belleten Tuumlrk Tarih Kurumu
BJb Bonner Jahrbuumlcher des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn
BMQ The British Museum Quarterly BMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
Boreas Boreas Muumlnstersche Beitraumlge zur Archaumlologie
BSA The British school of Archaeology at Athens
BSEAA Boletin del Seminario de estudios de arte y arqueologia
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
BT Babylonian Talmud
BullAIEMA Bulletin de lrsquoAssociation internationale pour lrsquoetude de la mosaique antique
BullMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
CArch Cahiers archeacuteologiques
CEDAC CEDAC Bulletin Centre drsquoeacutetudes et de documentation archeacuteologique de la conservation deCartage
CEFR Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome
Chiron Chiron Mitteilungen der Kommission fuumlr Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des DeutschenArchaumlologischen Instituts
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
ClJ The Classical Journal
CMG Convegni di studi sulla Magna Grecia
CMGR I La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane I H STERN - G Ch PICARD (eds) Paris 1965 (Actes du Iercolloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Paris 30 aoucirct-3 septembre 1963)
CMGR II La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane II H STERN - M LE GAY (eds) Paris 1975 (Actes du IIe
colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Vienne-Isegravere 30 aoucirct-4septembre 1971)
CMGR III III Colloquio internazionale sul mosaico antico R FARIOLI CAMPANATI (eacuted) Ravenna1983 (Actes du IIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Ravenna6-10 septembre 1980)
CMGR IV La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane IV J -P DARMON - A REBOURG (eds) Paris 1994 (Actesdu IVe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique TregravevesTrier 8-14 aoucirct1984)
CMGR V Fifth Interneational Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics 1 - 2 P Johnson R Ling D J Smith(eds) Ann Arbor M1 1994 and 1995 (Actes du V e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de lamosaiumlque antique Bath 5-12 septembre 1987) (JRA supp9)
CMGR VI VI Col loquio internacional s obre mosaico ant iquo Palenc ia-Meacuterida Octubre 199 0D Fernandez GALIANO (ed) Guadalajara 1994 (Actes du VIe colloque international pour
lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Palencia-Meacuterida octobre 1990)CMGR VII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VII M ENNAIFER - A REBOURG (eds) Tunis 1999 (Actes
du VIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Tunis 3-7 octobre 1994)
CMGR VIII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VIII D PAUNNIER - Chr SCHMIDT (eds) Lausanne 2001(Actes du VIIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevaleLausanne 6-11 octobre 1997) Cahiers drsquoArcheacuteologie Romande 85-86
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviations xxi
CMGR IX La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine IX Heacutelegravene MORLIER (eacuted) Rome 2005 (Actes du IXe colloqueinternational pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome Eacutecole franccedilaisePalazzo Altemps 5 ndash 10 novembre 2001) (Coll EFR 352) (2 vol)
CMGR X La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine X (in Publised)
CMGR XI XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve AntikDoumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi Mozaiklerin Başlan-gıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi Stil ve Teknik uumlzerine Sorular 11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS Mosaics of Turkey andParallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World Questions ofIconography Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late ByzantineEra Mustafa ŞAHİN (Ed) Bursa 2009 (İstanbul 2011)
DNP Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopaumldie der Antike
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Empuacuteries Empuacuteries Revista de prehistograveria arqueologia i etnologia
EPRO Etudes preacuteliminaires aux religions orientales dans lrsquoempire romain
ExcIsr Excavations and Surveys in Israel
Expedition Expedition The Magazine of Archaeology Anthropology
FiE Forschungen in EphesosForschungen I -III Forschungen in Salona I Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institute
Gallia Gallia Fouilles et monuments archeacuteologiques en France metropolitaine
Habis Habis Universidad de Sevilla Arqueologiacutea filologiacutea claacutesica
Historia Historia Zeitschrift fuumlr Alte Geschichte
HistriaAnt Histria antiqua Casopis Međunarodnog Istraživačkog Centra za Arheologiju Journal of theInternational Research Centre for Archeology
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Iliria Iliria Revisteuml arkeologjike
IMT Paul Gauckler Inventaire des mosaiumlques de la Gaule et de lrsquoAfrique tome II AfriqueProconsulaire (Tunisie) Paris 1910 Suppleacutement Alfred Merlin Paris 1915
IstForsch Istanbuler Forschungen
IstMitt Istanbuler Mitteilungen
IvE Inschriften griechischer Staumldte aus Kleinasien
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JAT Journal of Ancient Topography - Rivista di topografia antica
JbAC Jahrbuch fuumlr Antike und Christentum
JbOumlByz Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JdI Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts
JHS The Journal of Hellenic Studies
JMR Journal of Mosaic Research
JOumlAI Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in WienJOumlB Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
JRS The Journal of Roman Studies
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
Klio Klio Beitraumlge zur alten Geschichte
Kokalos Kώκαλος Studi pubblicati dallacuteIstituto di storia antica dellacuteUniversitagrave di Palermo
KST Kazı Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxxii
LA Liber Annuus Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Jeacuterusalem
Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
Le Deacutecor II C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J-P DARMON S GOZLAN M-P RAYNAUDLe deacutecor geacuteomeacutetrique de la Mosaiumlque Romaine II Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif desdeacutecors centreacutes Paris 2002
LIMC Lexikon iconographicum mythologiae classicaeLLAuml Lexikon der AumlgyptologieLRAC Reallexikon fuumlr Antike und Christentum
LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Mainake Mainake Estudios de arqueologiacutea Malaguentildea
MEFR Melanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome
MEFRA Meacutelanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome Antiquiteacute
MEFRM Meacutelanges de lrsquoEacutecole Franccedilaise de Rome Moyen Age
MitChrA Mitteilungen zur christlichen Archaumlologie
MKKS Muumlze Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu
MM Madrider Mitteilungen
Museacuteon Le Museacuteon Revue drsquoeacutetudes orientales
OumlJh Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in Wien
OpArch Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom Opuscula archaeologica
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Peristil Peristil Zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti
PriloziZagreb Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu
QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine
RA Revue archeacuteologique
RACr Rivista di archeologia cristiana
RB Revue biblique
RBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen Kunst Begruumlndet von K Wessel und M Restle Herausgege-Herausgege-ben von M Restle (Stuttgart)
RCHM Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
RHVaud Revue historique vaudoise
StudMisc Peter Johnson - Roger Ling - David J Smith (ed) Fifth International Colloquium on AncientMosaics held at Bath England on September 5 ndash 12 Ann Arbor Michigan 1994 et 1995(Actes du Ve colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique) (JRA SupplementarySeries 9) (2 vol)
TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
Traditio Traditio Studies in Ancient and Medieval History Thought and Religion
TuumlrkAD Tuumlrk Arkeoloji Dergisi
WO Die Welt des Orients
ZDPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaumlstina-Vereins
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Marek Titien OLSZEWSKI
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 659
1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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Marek Titien Olszewski662
was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programme xvii
20 October 2009 Tuesday
HALL A HALL B
Panel 23Moderator Mehmet Onal
Panel 24Moderator Paolo Vitellozzi
0900 - 0920De Que Hablamos Cuando Hablamos de TalleresMusivos Tardios en HispaniaMercedes Torres Carro
The Bejewelled Lady of SinopeFuumlsun Tuumllek
0920 - 0940 A new reading of the Dor mosaicIdit Sagiv-Hayik
Milli Azerbaycan Tarihi Muumlzesinde Hristyan AbideleriFariz Halilli
0940 - 1000Konya Tatkoumly ve Alibeykoumly Houmlyuumlğuuml Mozaikleri Asuman Baldıran- Osman Doğanay
Salamis Kenti Opus Sectile Taban Doumlşemeleri Aytaccedil Coşkun
1000 - 1020Il Mosaico di Metiochos E Parthenope da ZeugmaLucia Romizzi - Andrea Carini
Non-Destructive Investigations on Mosaic of theChurch of the Three HierarchsM Geba - N Vornicu - C Bibire
1020 - 1030 DISCUSSION
1030 - 1040 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 25Moderator Işıl R Işıklıkaya
Panel 26Moderator Luz Neira
1040 - 1100
Late Antique Private Luxury The Mosaic FloorsOf The Urban Mansion Of Sagalassos (ağlasunBurdur)Inge Uytterhoeven - Hande Koumlkten - MarcWaelkens - Markku Corremans
The Role of Late Antique Art in Early ChristianWorship A Reconsideration of the Iconographyof The lsquostarry Skyrsquo in Mosaics of the Late 5th -Early 6th C AdEllen Swift - Anne Alwis
1100 - 1020The Early Christian Mosaics with the Inscriptionsin CroatiaMarija Buzov
La Construccioacuten de las identidades de geacutenero atraveacutes de los mosaicos antioquenosJesuacutes Bermejo Tirado
1120 - 1145 DISCUSSION
1145 - 1215 COFFEE BREAK
HALL A HALL B
Panel 27Moderator Marija Buzov
Panel 28Moderator Maja Kramer
1215 - 1235Kaunos Kubbeli Kilise Ek Yapısırsquondaki TabanMozaiği Ayşe Aydın
El Thiasos Marino en los Mosaicos Romanos deTurquiacuteaLuz Neira
1235 - 1255
The Analytical Approach to the Roman Mosaics Bugini RobertoFolli Luisa Portulano BrunellaRofa Elisabetta
A stibadium with a mosaic in the Roman Villa ofRabaccedilal Penela PortugalMiguel Pessoa
1255 - 1315
Les mosaiumlques geacuteomeacutetriques de la villa romainede Abicada Leur rocircle dans le contexte desmosaiumlques romaines de AlgarveMaria De Jesus Duran Kremer
Mosaiumlques mythologiques de Zeugma Originaliteacuteet Liens iconographiques avec la peinturepompeacuteienne et les mosaiumlques italiques etafricains du I-II siegravecleLucia Romizzi
1315 - 1330 DISCUSSION
1330 - 1500 LUNCH
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexviii
HALL A HALL B
Panel 29Moderator Maria Kremer
Panel 30Moderator Miguel Pessoa
1500 - 1520
The Vases Representation (cantharus Crater)on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Signicant
Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late AntiquityFilomena Limatildeo
The Rape of Hylas and the Spectacles of the Amphitheatre on a Floor Mosaic from Volubilis
(Morocco)Margherita Carucci
1520 - 1540The Herakles mosaic discovered in Homs (Syria)Komait Abdallah
Myndos MosaicsDerya Şahin
1540 - 1600Les Mosaiumlques Agrave Thegraveme MythologiqueReacutecemment Deacutecouvertes Agrave NicircmesJean-yves Breuil
A Late Antique Residence in Augusta TraianaProvince of ThraceJulia Valeva
1600 - 1620Floor mosaics from a Roman villa in NinJagoda Meder
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of ItalicaFirmament ImagesIrene Mantildeas Romero
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630FREE TIME- BURSA -
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KISALTMALAR ABBREVIATIONS
AA Archaeologischer Anzeiger
Abulg Archaeologia Bulgarica
Acontia Acontia Revista de arqueologiacutea
ActaInstRomFin Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae
AEspA Archivo espantildeol de arqueologiacutea
AISCOM LrsquoAssociazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico
AJA American Journal of Archaelology
AJug Archaeologia JugoslavicaAM Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts Athenische Abteilung
AMethTh Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
AMS Asia Minor Studien
AnatoliaA Anatolia Antiqua
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der roumlmischen Welt
AnSt Anatolian Studies
AntAfr Antiquiteacutes africaines
AntigCr Antiguumledad y Cristianismo Monografiacuteas histoacutericas sobre la antiguumledad tardiacutea
AntK Antike Kunst
AntTard Antiquiteacute tardive Revue internationale drsquohistoire et drsquoarcheacuteologie
APregl Arheološki pregled Arheološko društvo JugoslavijeAquilNost Aquileia nostra Bollettino dellrsquoAssociazione nazionale per Aquileia
ArchCl Archeologia classica
Archeologia Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Published by the Society ofAntiquaries of London
ArtB The Art Bulletin
ASSAPH Assaph Studies in Art History
AST Araştırma Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
Atiqot Atiqot Journal of the Israel Department of Antiquities
AttiMemIstria Atti e memorie della Societagrave istriana di archeologia e storia patria
AW Antike Welt Zeitschrift fuumlr Archaumlologie und Kulturgeschichte
BAA Bulletin drsquoarcheologie algerienneBABesch Bulletin antieke beschaving Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology
BAcHist Boletiacuten de la Real academia de la historia
Baetica Baetica Estudios de arte geografiacutea e historia
BAR British Archaeological Reports British Series
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BCH Bulletin de correspondance helleacutenique
BCom Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxx
BCTH Bulletin archeacuteologique du Comiteacute des travaux historiques et scientifiques Paris
BdA Bollettino drsquoarte
BEFAR Bibliothegraveque des Ecoles franccedilaises drsquoAthegravenes et de Rome
Belleten Belleten Tuumlrk Tarih Kurumu
BJb Bonner Jahrbuumlcher des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn
BMQ The British Museum Quarterly BMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
Boreas Boreas Muumlnstersche Beitraumlge zur Archaumlologie
BSA The British school of Archaeology at Athens
BSEAA Boletin del Seminario de estudios de arte y arqueologia
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
BT Babylonian Talmud
BullAIEMA Bulletin de lrsquoAssociation internationale pour lrsquoetude de la mosaique antique
BullMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
CArch Cahiers archeacuteologiques
CEDAC CEDAC Bulletin Centre drsquoeacutetudes et de documentation archeacuteologique de la conservation deCartage
CEFR Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome
Chiron Chiron Mitteilungen der Kommission fuumlr Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des DeutschenArchaumlologischen Instituts
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
ClJ The Classical Journal
CMG Convegni di studi sulla Magna Grecia
CMGR I La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane I H STERN - G Ch PICARD (eds) Paris 1965 (Actes du Iercolloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Paris 30 aoucirct-3 septembre 1963)
CMGR II La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane II H STERN - M LE GAY (eds) Paris 1975 (Actes du IIe
colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Vienne-Isegravere 30 aoucirct-4septembre 1971)
CMGR III III Colloquio internazionale sul mosaico antico R FARIOLI CAMPANATI (eacuted) Ravenna1983 (Actes du IIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Ravenna6-10 septembre 1980)
CMGR IV La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane IV J -P DARMON - A REBOURG (eds) Paris 1994 (Actesdu IVe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique TregravevesTrier 8-14 aoucirct1984)
CMGR V Fifth Interneational Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics 1 - 2 P Johnson R Ling D J Smith(eds) Ann Arbor M1 1994 and 1995 (Actes du V e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de lamosaiumlque antique Bath 5-12 septembre 1987) (JRA supp9)
CMGR VI VI Col loquio internacional s obre mosaico ant iquo Palenc ia-Meacuterida Octubre 199 0D Fernandez GALIANO (ed) Guadalajara 1994 (Actes du VIe colloque international pour
lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Palencia-Meacuterida octobre 1990)CMGR VII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VII M ENNAIFER - A REBOURG (eds) Tunis 1999 (Actes
du VIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Tunis 3-7 octobre 1994)
CMGR VIII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VIII D PAUNNIER - Chr SCHMIDT (eds) Lausanne 2001(Actes du VIIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevaleLausanne 6-11 octobre 1997) Cahiers drsquoArcheacuteologie Romande 85-86
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviations xxi
CMGR IX La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine IX Heacutelegravene MORLIER (eacuted) Rome 2005 (Actes du IXe colloqueinternational pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome Eacutecole franccedilaisePalazzo Altemps 5 ndash 10 novembre 2001) (Coll EFR 352) (2 vol)
CMGR X La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine X (in Publised)
CMGR XI XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve AntikDoumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi Mozaiklerin Başlan-gıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi Stil ve Teknik uumlzerine Sorular 11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS Mosaics of Turkey andParallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World Questions ofIconography Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late ByzantineEra Mustafa ŞAHİN (Ed) Bursa 2009 (İstanbul 2011)
DNP Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopaumldie der Antike
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Empuacuteries Empuacuteries Revista de prehistograveria arqueologia i etnologia
EPRO Etudes preacuteliminaires aux religions orientales dans lrsquoempire romain
ExcIsr Excavations and Surveys in Israel
Expedition Expedition The Magazine of Archaeology Anthropology
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Historia Historia Zeitschrift fuumlr Alte Geschichte
HistriaAnt Histria antiqua Casopis Međunarodnog Istraživačkog Centra za Arheologiju Journal of theInternational Research Centre for Archeology
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Iliria Iliria Revisteuml arkeologjike
IMT Paul Gauckler Inventaire des mosaiumlques de la Gaule et de lrsquoAfrique tome II AfriqueProconsulaire (Tunisie) Paris 1910 Suppleacutement Alfred Merlin Paris 1915
IstForsch Istanbuler Forschungen
IstMitt Istanbuler Mitteilungen
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JbOumlByz Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
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JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
JRS The Journal of Roman Studies
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Klio Klio Beitraumlge zur alten Geschichte
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Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
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LIMC Lexikon iconographicum mythologiae classicaeLLAuml Lexikon der AumlgyptologieLRAC Reallexikon fuumlr Antike und Christentum
LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
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StudMisc Peter Johnson - Roger Ling - David J Smith (ed) Fifth International Colloquium on AncientMosaics held at Bath England on September 5 ndash 12 Ann Arbor Michigan 1994 et 1995(Actes du Ve colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique) (JRA SupplementarySeries 9) (2 vol)
TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
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Marek Titien OLSZEWSKI
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 659
1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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ndash mars 2008 205-214 226OLSZEWSKI 2009 M T Olszewski laquo Identification de cadrans solaires
sur trois mosaiumlques byzantines au Proche-Orientagrave Tayibat al-Imam Jeacuterusalem et Umm al-Rassas(vignette de Sebastis) et quelques autres identificationshypothetiques de gnomons geants (vignettes de KastronMefad a Umm al-Rassas et de Jeacuterusalem agrave Madaba) raquoArcheologia (Warsaw) 60 2009 (in pression)
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Bilimsel Program Scientific Programmexviii
HALL A HALL B
Panel 29Moderator Maria Kremer
Panel 30Moderator Miguel Pessoa
1500 - 1520
The Vases Representation (cantharus Crater)on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal A Signicant
Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late AntiquityFilomena Limatildeo
The Rape of Hylas and the Spectacles of the Amphitheatre on a Floor Mosaic from Volubilis
(Morocco)Margherita Carucci
1520 - 1540The Herakles mosaic discovered in Homs (Syria)Komait Abdallah
Myndos MosaicsDerya Şahin
1540 - 1600Les Mosaiumlques Agrave Thegraveme MythologiqueReacutecemment Deacutecouvertes Agrave NicircmesJean-yves Breuil
A Late Antique Residence in Augusta TraianaProvince of ThraceJulia Valeva
1600 - 1620Floor mosaics from a Roman villa in NinJagoda Meder
New Interpretations of Roman Mosaics of ItalicaFirmament ImagesIrene Mantildeas Romero
1620 - 1630 DISCUSSION
1630FREE TIME- BURSA -
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KISALTMALAR ABBREVIATIONS
AA Archaeologischer Anzeiger
Abulg Archaeologia Bulgarica
Acontia Acontia Revista de arqueologiacutea
ActaInstRomFin Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae
AEspA Archivo espantildeol de arqueologiacutea
AISCOM LrsquoAssociazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico
AJA American Journal of Archaelology
AJug Archaeologia JugoslavicaAM Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts Athenische Abteilung
AMethTh Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
AMS Asia Minor Studien
AnatoliaA Anatolia Antiqua
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der roumlmischen Welt
AnSt Anatolian Studies
AntAfr Antiquiteacutes africaines
AntigCr Antiguumledad y Cristianismo Monografiacuteas histoacutericas sobre la antiguumledad tardiacutea
AntK Antike Kunst
AntTard Antiquiteacute tardive Revue internationale drsquohistoire et drsquoarcheacuteologie
APregl Arheološki pregled Arheološko društvo JugoslavijeAquilNost Aquileia nostra Bollettino dellrsquoAssociazione nazionale per Aquileia
ArchCl Archeologia classica
Archeologia Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Published by the Society ofAntiquaries of London
ArtB The Art Bulletin
ASSAPH Assaph Studies in Art History
AST Araştırma Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
Atiqot Atiqot Journal of the Israel Department of Antiquities
AttiMemIstria Atti e memorie della Societagrave istriana di archeologia e storia patria
AW Antike Welt Zeitschrift fuumlr Archaumlologie und Kulturgeschichte
BAA Bulletin drsquoarcheologie algerienneBABesch Bulletin antieke beschaving Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology
BAcHist Boletiacuten de la Real academia de la historia
Baetica Baetica Estudios de arte geografiacutea e historia
BAR British Archaeological Reports British Series
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BCH Bulletin de correspondance helleacutenique
BCom Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxx
BCTH Bulletin archeacuteologique du Comiteacute des travaux historiques et scientifiques Paris
BdA Bollettino drsquoarte
BEFAR Bibliothegraveque des Ecoles franccedilaises drsquoAthegravenes et de Rome
Belleten Belleten Tuumlrk Tarih Kurumu
BJb Bonner Jahrbuumlcher des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn
BMQ The British Museum Quarterly BMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
Boreas Boreas Muumlnstersche Beitraumlge zur Archaumlologie
BSA The British school of Archaeology at Athens
BSEAA Boletin del Seminario de estudios de arte y arqueologia
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
BT Babylonian Talmud
BullAIEMA Bulletin de lrsquoAssociation internationale pour lrsquoetude de la mosaique antique
BullMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
CArch Cahiers archeacuteologiques
CEDAC CEDAC Bulletin Centre drsquoeacutetudes et de documentation archeacuteologique de la conservation deCartage
CEFR Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome
Chiron Chiron Mitteilungen der Kommission fuumlr Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des DeutschenArchaumlologischen Instituts
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
ClJ The Classical Journal
CMG Convegni di studi sulla Magna Grecia
CMGR I La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane I H STERN - G Ch PICARD (eds) Paris 1965 (Actes du Iercolloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Paris 30 aoucirct-3 septembre 1963)
CMGR II La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane II H STERN - M LE GAY (eds) Paris 1975 (Actes du IIe
colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Vienne-Isegravere 30 aoucirct-4septembre 1971)
CMGR III III Colloquio internazionale sul mosaico antico R FARIOLI CAMPANATI (eacuted) Ravenna1983 (Actes du IIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Ravenna6-10 septembre 1980)
CMGR IV La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane IV J -P DARMON - A REBOURG (eds) Paris 1994 (Actesdu IVe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique TregravevesTrier 8-14 aoucirct1984)
CMGR V Fifth Interneational Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics 1 - 2 P Johnson R Ling D J Smith(eds) Ann Arbor M1 1994 and 1995 (Actes du V e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de lamosaiumlque antique Bath 5-12 septembre 1987) (JRA supp9)
CMGR VI VI Col loquio internacional s obre mosaico ant iquo Palenc ia-Meacuterida Octubre 199 0D Fernandez GALIANO (ed) Guadalajara 1994 (Actes du VIe colloque international pour
lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Palencia-Meacuterida octobre 1990)CMGR VII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VII M ENNAIFER - A REBOURG (eds) Tunis 1999 (Actes
du VIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Tunis 3-7 octobre 1994)
CMGR VIII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VIII D PAUNNIER - Chr SCHMIDT (eds) Lausanne 2001(Actes du VIIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevaleLausanne 6-11 octobre 1997) Cahiers drsquoArcheacuteologie Romande 85-86
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviations xxi
CMGR IX La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine IX Heacutelegravene MORLIER (eacuted) Rome 2005 (Actes du IXe colloqueinternational pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome Eacutecole franccedilaisePalazzo Altemps 5 ndash 10 novembre 2001) (Coll EFR 352) (2 vol)
CMGR X La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine X (in Publised)
CMGR XI XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve AntikDoumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi Mozaiklerin Başlan-gıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi Stil ve Teknik uumlzerine Sorular 11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS Mosaics of Turkey andParallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World Questions ofIconography Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late ByzantineEra Mustafa ŞAHİN (Ed) Bursa 2009 (İstanbul 2011)
DNP Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopaumldie der Antike
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Empuacuteries Empuacuteries Revista de prehistograveria arqueologia i etnologia
EPRO Etudes preacuteliminaires aux religions orientales dans lrsquoempire romain
ExcIsr Excavations and Surveys in Israel
Expedition Expedition The Magazine of Archaeology Anthropology
FiE Forschungen in EphesosForschungen I -III Forschungen in Salona I Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institute
Gallia Gallia Fouilles et monuments archeacuteologiques en France metropolitaine
Habis Habis Universidad de Sevilla Arqueologiacutea filologiacutea claacutesica
Historia Historia Zeitschrift fuumlr Alte Geschichte
HistriaAnt Histria antiqua Casopis Međunarodnog Istraživačkog Centra za Arheologiju Journal of theInternational Research Centre for Archeology
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Iliria Iliria Revisteuml arkeologjike
IMT Paul Gauckler Inventaire des mosaiumlques de la Gaule et de lrsquoAfrique tome II AfriqueProconsulaire (Tunisie) Paris 1910 Suppleacutement Alfred Merlin Paris 1915
IstForsch Istanbuler Forschungen
IstMitt Istanbuler Mitteilungen
IvE Inschriften griechischer Staumldte aus Kleinasien
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JAT Journal of Ancient Topography - Rivista di topografia antica
JbAC Jahrbuch fuumlr Antike und Christentum
JbOumlByz Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JdI Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts
JHS The Journal of Hellenic Studies
JMR Journal of Mosaic Research
JOumlAI Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in WienJOumlB Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
JRS The Journal of Roman Studies
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
Klio Klio Beitraumlge zur alten Geschichte
Kokalos Kώκαλος Studi pubblicati dallacuteIstituto di storia antica dellacuteUniversitagrave di Palermo
KST Kazı Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxxii
LA Liber Annuus Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Jeacuterusalem
Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
Le Deacutecor II C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J-P DARMON S GOZLAN M-P RAYNAUDLe deacutecor geacuteomeacutetrique de la Mosaiumlque Romaine II Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif desdeacutecors centreacutes Paris 2002
LIMC Lexikon iconographicum mythologiae classicaeLLAuml Lexikon der AumlgyptologieLRAC Reallexikon fuumlr Antike und Christentum
LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Mainake Mainake Estudios de arqueologiacutea Malaguentildea
MEFR Melanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome
MEFRA Meacutelanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome Antiquiteacute
MEFRM Meacutelanges de lrsquoEacutecole Franccedilaise de Rome Moyen Age
MitChrA Mitteilungen zur christlichen Archaumlologie
MKKS Muumlze Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu
MM Madrider Mitteilungen
Museacuteon Le Museacuteon Revue drsquoeacutetudes orientales
OumlJh Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in Wien
OpArch Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom Opuscula archaeologica
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Peristil Peristil Zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti
PriloziZagreb Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu
QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine
RA Revue archeacuteologique
RACr Rivista di archeologia cristiana
RB Revue biblique
RBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen Kunst Begruumlndet von K Wessel und M Restle Herausgege-Herausgege-ben von M Restle (Stuttgart)
RCHM Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
RHVaud Revue historique vaudoise
StudMisc Peter Johnson - Roger Ling - David J Smith (ed) Fifth International Colloquium on AncientMosaics held at Bath England on September 5 ndash 12 Ann Arbor Michigan 1994 et 1995(Actes du Ve colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique) (JRA SupplementarySeries 9) (2 vol)
TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
Traditio Traditio Studies in Ancient and Medieval History Thought and Religion
TuumlrkAD Tuumlrk Arkeoloji Dergisi
WO Die Welt des Orients
ZDPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaumlstina-Vereins
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Marek Titien OLSZEWSKI
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 659
1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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OLSZEWSKI 2006 M T Olszewski laquo La mosaiumlque de la Fecircte Nocturne
Pannychis de Shahba-Philippopolis et le teacutemoignagedrsquoArteacutemidore de Daldis (Onirocriticon II 61) raquo inKalathos Studies in Honour of Asher Ovadiah TelAviv ASSAPH 2005-2006 Studies in Art History vols10-11 381-390
OLSZEWSKI 2010 M T Olszewski laquo Images allusives Dionysos et Ariane
dans lrsquoespace reacuteserveacute aux femmes (gyneacuteceacutee) Le cas dePtoleacutemaiumls et Cyregravene en Libye raquo in I Bragantini edActes du X Congresso Internazionale AssociationInternationale pour la Peinture Murale AntiqueNeapol 17-21 septembre 2007 Annali di Archeologiae storia antica 181 315 321
OLSZEWSKI 2008 M T Olszewski laquo Orpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque
funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalem raquo Rey Mimoso-Ruiz BMimoso-Ruiz (ed) Actes du colloque laquo Orpheacutee entreSoleil et ombre raquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulouse du16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial
ndash mars 2008 205-214 226OLSZEWSKI 2009 M T Olszewski laquo Identification de cadrans solaires
sur trois mosaiumlques byzantines au Proche-Orientagrave Tayibat al-Imam Jeacuterusalem et Umm al-Rassas(vignette de Sebastis) et quelques autres identificationshypothetiques de gnomons geants (vignettes de KastronMefad a Umm al-Rassas et de Jeacuterusalem agrave Madaba) raquoArcheologia (Warsaw) 60 2009 (in pression)
REBILLARD 2003 E Rebillard Religion et seacutepulture lrsquoEglise les vivants et
les morts dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute tardive EPHESS Collection
civilisations et socieacuteteacutes 115 ParisSEGAL 1959 J B Segal ldquoNew Mosaics from Edessardquo Archaeology
12 150-157
STONE 2006 M E Stone Apocrypha Pseudepigrapha and Armenian
Sudies Collected Papers Leuven
STRZYGOWSKI 1901 J Strzygowski ldquoDa Neuegefundene Orpheus Mosaik in
Jerusalemrdquo ZDPV 24 139-165
TUumlLEK 1998 F Tuumllek Efsuncu Orpheus ndash Orpheus the Magician
The Transition of Orpheus theme from Poganism toChristianity in late Roman-Early Byzantine MosaicsIstanbul
VIEILLEFON 2003 L Vieillefon La figure drsquoOrpheeacute dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute
tardive Les mutations drsquoun mythe du heacuteros paiumlen auchantre chreacutetien Paris De Boccard
VINCENT 1901 H Vincent laquo Une mosaiumlque byzantine agrave Jeacuterusalem raquo
RB 10 436-444
VINCENT 1902 H Vincent laquo La mosaiumlque drsquoOrpheacutee raquo RB 11
100-103
WOLFF 2000 E Wolff La poeacutesie funeacuteraire eacutepigraphique agrave Rome
Rennes
WREDE 1981 H Wrede Consecratio in formam deorumVergoumlttlich-
te Privatpersonen in der roumlmischen Kaiserzeit Mainz
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KISALTMALAR ABBREVIATIONS
AA Archaeologischer Anzeiger
Abulg Archaeologia Bulgarica
Acontia Acontia Revista de arqueologiacutea
ActaInstRomFin Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae
AEspA Archivo espantildeol de arqueologiacutea
AISCOM LrsquoAssociazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico
AJA American Journal of Archaelology
AJug Archaeologia JugoslavicaAM Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts Athenische Abteilung
AMethTh Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
AMS Asia Minor Studien
AnatoliaA Anatolia Antiqua
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der roumlmischen Welt
AnSt Anatolian Studies
AntAfr Antiquiteacutes africaines
AntigCr Antiguumledad y Cristianismo Monografiacuteas histoacutericas sobre la antiguumledad tardiacutea
AntK Antike Kunst
AntTard Antiquiteacute tardive Revue internationale drsquohistoire et drsquoarcheacuteologie
APregl Arheološki pregled Arheološko društvo JugoslavijeAquilNost Aquileia nostra Bollettino dellrsquoAssociazione nazionale per Aquileia
ArchCl Archeologia classica
Archeologia Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Published by the Society ofAntiquaries of London
ArtB The Art Bulletin
ASSAPH Assaph Studies in Art History
AST Araştırma Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
Atiqot Atiqot Journal of the Israel Department of Antiquities
AttiMemIstria Atti e memorie della Societagrave istriana di archeologia e storia patria
AW Antike Welt Zeitschrift fuumlr Archaumlologie und Kulturgeschichte
BAA Bulletin drsquoarcheologie algerienneBABesch Bulletin antieke beschaving Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology
BAcHist Boletiacuten de la Real academia de la historia
Baetica Baetica Estudios de arte geografiacutea e historia
BAR British Archaeological Reports British Series
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BCH Bulletin de correspondance helleacutenique
BCom Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxx
BCTH Bulletin archeacuteologique du Comiteacute des travaux historiques et scientifiques Paris
BdA Bollettino drsquoarte
BEFAR Bibliothegraveque des Ecoles franccedilaises drsquoAthegravenes et de Rome
Belleten Belleten Tuumlrk Tarih Kurumu
BJb Bonner Jahrbuumlcher des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn
BMQ The British Museum Quarterly BMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
Boreas Boreas Muumlnstersche Beitraumlge zur Archaumlologie
BSA The British school of Archaeology at Athens
BSEAA Boletin del Seminario de estudios de arte y arqueologia
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
BT Babylonian Talmud
BullAIEMA Bulletin de lrsquoAssociation internationale pour lrsquoetude de la mosaique antique
BullMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
CArch Cahiers archeacuteologiques
CEDAC CEDAC Bulletin Centre drsquoeacutetudes et de documentation archeacuteologique de la conservation deCartage
CEFR Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome
Chiron Chiron Mitteilungen der Kommission fuumlr Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des DeutschenArchaumlologischen Instituts
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
ClJ The Classical Journal
CMG Convegni di studi sulla Magna Grecia
CMGR I La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane I H STERN - G Ch PICARD (eds) Paris 1965 (Actes du Iercolloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Paris 30 aoucirct-3 septembre 1963)
CMGR II La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane II H STERN - M LE GAY (eds) Paris 1975 (Actes du IIe
colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Vienne-Isegravere 30 aoucirct-4septembre 1971)
CMGR III III Colloquio internazionale sul mosaico antico R FARIOLI CAMPANATI (eacuted) Ravenna1983 (Actes du IIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Ravenna6-10 septembre 1980)
CMGR IV La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane IV J -P DARMON - A REBOURG (eds) Paris 1994 (Actesdu IVe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique TregravevesTrier 8-14 aoucirct1984)
CMGR V Fifth Interneational Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics 1 - 2 P Johnson R Ling D J Smith(eds) Ann Arbor M1 1994 and 1995 (Actes du V e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de lamosaiumlque antique Bath 5-12 septembre 1987) (JRA supp9)
CMGR VI VI Col loquio internacional s obre mosaico ant iquo Palenc ia-Meacuterida Octubre 199 0D Fernandez GALIANO (ed) Guadalajara 1994 (Actes du VIe colloque international pour
lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Palencia-Meacuterida octobre 1990)CMGR VII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VII M ENNAIFER - A REBOURG (eds) Tunis 1999 (Actes
du VIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Tunis 3-7 octobre 1994)
CMGR VIII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VIII D PAUNNIER - Chr SCHMIDT (eds) Lausanne 2001(Actes du VIIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevaleLausanne 6-11 octobre 1997) Cahiers drsquoArcheacuteologie Romande 85-86
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviations xxi
CMGR IX La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine IX Heacutelegravene MORLIER (eacuted) Rome 2005 (Actes du IXe colloqueinternational pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome Eacutecole franccedilaisePalazzo Altemps 5 ndash 10 novembre 2001) (Coll EFR 352) (2 vol)
CMGR X La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine X (in Publised)
CMGR XI XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve AntikDoumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi Mozaiklerin Başlan-gıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi Stil ve Teknik uumlzerine Sorular 11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS Mosaics of Turkey andParallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World Questions ofIconography Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late ByzantineEra Mustafa ŞAHİN (Ed) Bursa 2009 (İstanbul 2011)
DNP Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopaumldie der Antike
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Empuacuteries Empuacuteries Revista de prehistograveria arqueologia i etnologia
EPRO Etudes preacuteliminaires aux religions orientales dans lrsquoempire romain
ExcIsr Excavations and Surveys in Israel
Expedition Expedition The Magazine of Archaeology Anthropology
FiE Forschungen in EphesosForschungen I -III Forschungen in Salona I Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institute
Gallia Gallia Fouilles et monuments archeacuteologiques en France metropolitaine
Habis Habis Universidad de Sevilla Arqueologiacutea filologiacutea claacutesica
Historia Historia Zeitschrift fuumlr Alte Geschichte
HistriaAnt Histria antiqua Casopis Međunarodnog Istraživačkog Centra za Arheologiju Journal of theInternational Research Centre for Archeology
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Iliria Iliria Revisteuml arkeologjike
IMT Paul Gauckler Inventaire des mosaiumlques de la Gaule et de lrsquoAfrique tome II AfriqueProconsulaire (Tunisie) Paris 1910 Suppleacutement Alfred Merlin Paris 1915
IstForsch Istanbuler Forschungen
IstMitt Istanbuler Mitteilungen
IvE Inschriften griechischer Staumldte aus Kleinasien
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JAT Journal of Ancient Topography - Rivista di topografia antica
JbAC Jahrbuch fuumlr Antike und Christentum
JbOumlByz Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JdI Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts
JHS The Journal of Hellenic Studies
JMR Journal of Mosaic Research
JOumlAI Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in WienJOumlB Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
JRS The Journal of Roman Studies
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
Klio Klio Beitraumlge zur alten Geschichte
Kokalos Kώκαλος Studi pubblicati dallacuteIstituto di storia antica dellacuteUniversitagrave di Palermo
KST Kazı Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxxii
LA Liber Annuus Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Jeacuterusalem
Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
Le Deacutecor II C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J-P DARMON S GOZLAN M-P RAYNAUDLe deacutecor geacuteomeacutetrique de la Mosaiumlque Romaine II Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif desdeacutecors centreacutes Paris 2002
LIMC Lexikon iconographicum mythologiae classicaeLLAuml Lexikon der AumlgyptologieLRAC Reallexikon fuumlr Antike und Christentum
LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Mainake Mainake Estudios de arqueologiacutea Malaguentildea
MEFR Melanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome
MEFRA Meacutelanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome Antiquiteacute
MEFRM Meacutelanges de lrsquoEacutecole Franccedilaise de Rome Moyen Age
MitChrA Mitteilungen zur christlichen Archaumlologie
MKKS Muumlze Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu
MM Madrider Mitteilungen
Museacuteon Le Museacuteon Revue drsquoeacutetudes orientales
OumlJh Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in Wien
OpArch Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom Opuscula archaeologica
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Peristil Peristil Zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti
PriloziZagreb Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu
QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine
RA Revue archeacuteologique
RACr Rivista di archeologia cristiana
RB Revue biblique
RBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen Kunst Begruumlndet von K Wessel und M Restle Herausgege-Herausgege-ben von M Restle (Stuttgart)
RCHM Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
RHVaud Revue historique vaudoise
StudMisc Peter Johnson - Roger Ling - David J Smith (ed) Fifth International Colloquium on AncientMosaics held at Bath England on September 5 ndash 12 Ann Arbor Michigan 1994 et 1995(Actes du Ve colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique) (JRA SupplementarySeries 9) (2 vol)
TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
Traditio Traditio Studies in Ancient and Medieval History Thought and Religion
TuumlrkAD Tuumlrk Arkeoloji Dergisi
WO Die Welt des Orients
ZDPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaumlstina-Vereins
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Marek Titien OLSZEWSKI
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 659
1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxx
BCTH Bulletin archeacuteologique du Comiteacute des travaux historiques et scientifiques Paris
BdA Bollettino drsquoarte
BEFAR Bibliothegraveque des Ecoles franccedilaises drsquoAthegravenes et de Rome
Belleten Belleten Tuumlrk Tarih Kurumu
BJb Bonner Jahrbuumlcher des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn
BMQ The British Museum Quarterly BMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
Boreas Boreas Muumlnstersche Beitraumlge zur Archaumlologie
BSA The British school of Archaeology at Athens
BSEAA Boletin del Seminario de estudios de arte y arqueologia
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
BT Babylonian Talmud
BullAIEMA Bulletin de lrsquoAssociation internationale pour lrsquoetude de la mosaique antique
BullMusBeyrouth Bulletin du Museacutee de Beyrouth
ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
CArch Cahiers archeacuteologiques
CEDAC CEDAC Bulletin Centre drsquoeacutetudes et de documentation archeacuteologique de la conservation deCartage
CEFR Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome
Chiron Chiron Mitteilungen der Kommission fuumlr Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des DeutschenArchaumlologischen Instituts
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
ClJ The Classical Journal
CMG Convegni di studi sulla Magna Grecia
CMGR I La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane I H STERN - G Ch PICARD (eds) Paris 1965 (Actes du Iercolloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Paris 30 aoucirct-3 septembre 1963)
CMGR II La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane II H STERN - M LE GAY (eds) Paris 1975 (Actes du IIe
colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Vienne-Isegravere 30 aoucirct-4septembre 1971)
CMGR III III Colloquio internazionale sul mosaico antico R FARIOLI CAMPANATI (eacuted) Ravenna1983 (Actes du IIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Ravenna6-10 septembre 1980)
CMGR IV La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane IV J -P DARMON - A REBOURG (eds) Paris 1994 (Actesdu IVe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique TregravevesTrier 8-14 aoucirct1984)
CMGR V Fifth Interneational Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics 1 - 2 P Johnson R Ling D J Smith(eds) Ann Arbor M1 1994 and 1995 (Actes du V e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de lamosaiumlque antique Bath 5-12 septembre 1987) (JRA supp9)
CMGR VI VI Col loquio internacional s obre mosaico ant iquo Palenc ia-Meacuterida Octubre 199 0D Fernandez GALIANO (ed) Guadalajara 1994 (Actes du VIe colloque international pour
lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Palencia-Meacuterida octobre 1990)CMGR VII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VII M ENNAIFER - A REBOURG (eds) Tunis 1999 (Actes
du VIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique Tunis 3-7 octobre 1994)
CMGR VIII La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romiane VIII D PAUNNIER - Chr SCHMIDT (eds) Lausanne 2001(Actes du VIIIe colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevaleLausanne 6-11 octobre 1997) Cahiers drsquoArcheacuteologie Romande 85-86
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviations xxi
CMGR IX La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine IX Heacutelegravene MORLIER (eacuted) Rome 2005 (Actes du IXe colloqueinternational pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome Eacutecole franccedilaisePalazzo Altemps 5 ndash 10 novembre 2001) (Coll EFR 352) (2 vol)
CMGR X La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine X (in Publised)
CMGR XI XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve AntikDoumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi Mozaiklerin Başlan-gıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi Stil ve Teknik uumlzerine Sorular 11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS Mosaics of Turkey andParallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World Questions ofIconography Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late ByzantineEra Mustafa ŞAHİN (Ed) Bursa 2009 (İstanbul 2011)
DNP Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopaumldie der Antike
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Empuacuteries Empuacuteries Revista de prehistograveria arqueologia i etnologia
EPRO Etudes preacuteliminaires aux religions orientales dans lrsquoempire romain
ExcIsr Excavations and Surveys in Israel
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Historia Historia Zeitschrift fuumlr Alte Geschichte
HistriaAnt Histria antiqua Casopis Međunarodnog Istraživačkog Centra za Arheologiju Journal of theInternational Research Centre for Archeology
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Iliria Iliria Revisteuml arkeologjike
IMT Paul Gauckler Inventaire des mosaiumlques de la Gaule et de lrsquoAfrique tome II AfriqueProconsulaire (Tunisie) Paris 1910 Suppleacutement Alfred Merlin Paris 1915
IstForsch Istanbuler Forschungen
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JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
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Klio Klio Beitraumlge zur alten Geschichte
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Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
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LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
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TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
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Marek Titien OLSZEWSKI
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 659
1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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Marek Titien Olszewski662
was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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ndash mars 2008 205-214 226OLSZEWSKI 2009 M T Olszewski laquo Identification de cadrans solaires
sur trois mosaiumlques byzantines au Proche-Orientagrave Tayibat al-Imam Jeacuterusalem et Umm al-Rassas(vignette de Sebastis) et quelques autres identificationshypothetiques de gnomons geants (vignettes de KastronMefad a Umm al-Rassas et de Jeacuterusalem agrave Madaba) raquoArcheologia (Warsaw) 60 2009 (in pression)
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tardive Les mutations drsquoun mythe du heacuteros paiumlen auchantre chreacutetien Paris De Boccard
VINCENT 1901 H Vincent laquo Une mosaiumlque byzantine agrave Jeacuterusalem raquo
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te Privatpersonen in der roumlmischen Kaiserzeit Mainz
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviations xxi
CMGR IX La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine IX Heacutelegravene MORLIER (eacuted) Rome 2005 (Actes du IXe colloqueinternational pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome Eacutecole franccedilaisePalazzo Altemps 5 ndash 10 novembre 2001) (Coll EFR 352) (2 vol)
CMGR X La Mosaiumlque greacuteco-romaine X (in Publised)
CMGR XI XI ULUSLARARASI ANTİK MOZAİK SEMPOZYUMU Tuumlrkiye Mozaikleri ve AntikDoumlnemden Ortaccedilağ Duumlnyasına Diğer Mozaiklerle Paralel Gelişimi Mozaiklerin Başlan-gıcından Geccedil Bizans Ccedilağına Kadar İkonografi Stil ve Teknik uumlzerine Sorular 11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS Mosaics of Turkey andParallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World Questions ofIconography Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late ByzantineEra Mustafa ŞAHİN (Ed) Bursa 2009 (İstanbul 2011)
DNP Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopaumldie der Antike
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Empuacuteries Empuacuteries Revista de prehistograveria arqueologia i etnologia
EPRO Etudes preacuteliminaires aux religions orientales dans lrsquoempire romain
ExcIsr Excavations and Surveys in Israel
Expedition Expedition The Magazine of Archaeology Anthropology
FiE Forschungen in EphesosForschungen I -III Forschungen in Salona I Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institute
Gallia Gallia Fouilles et monuments archeacuteologiques en France metropolitaine
Habis Habis Universidad de Sevilla Arqueologiacutea filologiacutea claacutesica
Historia Historia Zeitschrift fuumlr Alte Geschichte
HistriaAnt Histria antiqua Casopis Međunarodnog Istraživačkog Centra za Arheologiju Journal of theInternational Research Centre for Archeology
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Iliria Iliria Revisteuml arkeologjike
IMT Paul Gauckler Inventaire des mosaiumlques de la Gaule et de lrsquoAfrique tome II AfriqueProconsulaire (Tunisie) Paris 1910 Suppleacutement Alfred Merlin Paris 1915
IstForsch Istanbuler Forschungen
IstMitt Istanbuler Mitteilungen
IvE Inschriften griechischer Staumldte aus Kleinasien
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JAT Journal of Ancient Topography - Rivista di topografia antica
JbAC Jahrbuch fuumlr Antike und Christentum
JbOumlByz Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JdI Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaumlologischen Instituts
JHS The Journal of Hellenic Studies
JMR Journal of Mosaic Research
JOumlAI Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in WienJOumlB Jahrbuch der Oumlsterreichischen Byzantinistik
JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
JRS The Journal of Roman Studies
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
Klio Klio Beitraumlge zur alten Geschichte
Kokalos Kώκαλος Studi pubblicati dallacuteIstituto di storia antica dellacuteUniversitagrave di Palermo
KST Kazı Sonuccedilları Toplantısı
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Kısaltmalar Abbreviationsxxii
LA Liber Annuus Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Jeacuterusalem
Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
Le Deacutecor II C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J-P DARMON S GOZLAN M-P RAYNAUDLe deacutecor geacuteomeacutetrique de la Mosaiumlque Romaine II Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif desdeacutecors centreacutes Paris 2002
LIMC Lexikon iconographicum mythologiae classicaeLLAuml Lexikon der AumlgyptologieLRAC Reallexikon fuumlr Antike und Christentum
LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Mainake Mainake Estudios de arqueologiacutea Malaguentildea
MEFR Melanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome
MEFRA Meacutelanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome Antiquiteacute
MEFRM Meacutelanges de lrsquoEacutecole Franccedilaise de Rome Moyen Age
MitChrA Mitteilungen zur christlichen Archaumlologie
MKKS Muumlze Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu
MM Madrider Mitteilungen
Museacuteon Le Museacuteon Revue drsquoeacutetudes orientales
OumlJh Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in Wien
OpArch Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom Opuscula archaeologica
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Peristil Peristil Zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti
PriloziZagreb Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu
QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine
RA Revue archeacuteologique
RACr Rivista di archeologia cristiana
RB Revue biblique
RBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen Kunst Begruumlndet von K Wessel und M Restle Herausgege-Herausgege-ben von M Restle (Stuttgart)
RCHM Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
RHVaud Revue historique vaudoise
StudMisc Peter Johnson - Roger Ling - David J Smith (ed) Fifth International Colloquium on AncientMosaics held at Bath England on September 5 ndash 12 Ann Arbor Michigan 1994 et 1995(Actes du Ve colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique) (JRA SupplementarySeries 9) (2 vol)
TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
Traditio Traditio Studies in Ancient and Medieval History Thought and Religion
TuumlrkAD Tuumlrk Arkeoloji Dergisi
WO Die Welt des Orients
ZDPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaumlstina-Vereins
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e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 659
1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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LA Liber Annuus Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Jeacuterusalem
Latomus Latomus Revue drsquoeacutetudes latines
Le Deacutecor I C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J CHRISTOPHE J -P DARMON A-MGUIMIER-SORBETS H LAVAGNE R PRUDHOMME H STERN Le deacutecor geacuteomeacutetriquede la Mosaiumlque Romaine I Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif des compositions lineacuteaires etisotropes Paris 1985
Le Deacutecor II C BALMELLE M BLANCHARD-LEMEE J-P DARMON S GOZLAN M-P RAYNAUDLe deacutecor geacuteomeacutetrique de la Mosaiumlque Romaine II Reacutepertoire graphique et descriptif desdeacutecors centreacutes Paris 2002
LIMC Lexikon iconographicum mythologiae classicaeLLAuml Lexikon der AumlgyptologieLRAC Reallexikon fuumlr Antike und Christentum
LRBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen KunstLRE Paulys Realencyclopaumldie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Mainake Mainake Estudios de arqueologiacutea Malaguentildea
MEFR Melanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome
MEFRA Meacutelanges de lrsquoEcole franccedilaise de Rome Antiquiteacute
MEFRM Meacutelanges de lrsquoEacutecole Franccedilaise de Rome Moyen Age
MitChrA Mitteilungen zur christlichen Archaumlologie
MKKS Muumlze Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu
MM Madrider Mitteilungen
Museacuteon Le Museacuteon Revue drsquoeacutetudes orientales
OumlJh Jahreshefte des Oumlsterreichischen Archaumlologischen Institutes in Wien
OpArch Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom Opuscula archaeologica
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Peristil Peristil Zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti
PriloziZagreb Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu
QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine
RA Revue archeacuteologique
RACr Rivista di archeologia cristiana
RB Revue biblique
RBK Reallexikon zur Byzantinischen Kunst Begruumlndet von K Wessel und M Restle Herausgege-Herausgege-ben von M Restle (Stuttgart)
RCHM Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
RHVaud Revue historique vaudoise
StudMisc Peter Johnson - Roger Ling - David J Smith (ed) Fifth International Colloquium on AncientMosaics held at Bath England on September 5 ndash 12 Ann Arbor Michigan 1994 et 1995(Actes du Ve colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque antique) (JRA SupplementarySeries 9) (2 vol)
TGV Catherine Balmelle Aiumlcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader Saiumlda Ben Mansour Wassila Ben OsmanJean-Pierre Darmon Mongi Ennaiumlfer Suzanne Gozlan Nabiha Jeddi Hedi Slim dessinsRichard Prudhomme Marie-Pat Raynaud Recherches franco-tunisiennes sur la mosaiumlquede lrsquoAfrique antique II Trames geacuteomeacutetriques veacutegeacutetaliseacutees Rome 2001 (Coll EFR 288)
Traditio Traditio Studies in Ancient and Medieval History Thought and Religion
TuumlrkAD Tuumlrk Arkeoloji Dergisi
WO Die Welt des Orients
ZDPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaumlstina-Vereins
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Marek Titien OLSZEWSKI
e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 659
1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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Israel in Late Antiquity Collectanea Tel Aviv 193-208= OVADIAH A et MUCZNIK S 1981 ldquoOrpheus fromJerusalem ndash Pagan or Christian Imagerdquo The Jerusalem
Cathedra 1 Jerusalem 152-166
OLSZEWSKI 1995 M T Olszewski laquo Lrsquoimage et sa fonction dans la
mosaiumlque byzantine des premiegraveres basiliques en OrientLrsquoiconographie chreacutetienne expliqueacutee par Cyrille deJeacuterusalem (314-387) raquo CArch 43 9-35
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OLSZEWSKI 2000 M T Olszewski laquo Eacutevocation allusive des maximes des
Sept Sages A propos de la ldquoColegravere drsquoAchilleldquo sur lamosaiumlque de Meacuterida raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LI 37-46 pls IV-V
OLSZEWSKI 2001 MT Olszewski laquo Arteacutemidore mythologie et sym-
bolique funeacuteraire raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LII 39-60pls XI-XV
OLSZEWSKI 2001 M T Olszewski laquo Le langage symbolique dans
la deacutecoration agrave scegravenes mythologiques et sonsens dans les tombes peintes de lrsquoOrient romainNouvelle approche raquoVIIe Colloque de lrsquoAssociation
Internationale pour lrsquoeacutetude de la peinture antiqueSt-Romain-en-Gal 1998 Paris 2001 155-162 plsXXVI-XXIX
OLSZEWSKI 2001
M T Olszewski laquo Mauvais œil et protection contrelrsquoenvie dans la mosaiumlque de Cheikh Zouegravede au Sinaiuml(IV-Ve siegravecle) raquo D Paunier - C Schmidt (eds) Actes du VIIIegraveme Colloque International pour lrsquo eacutetude
de la Mosaiumlque Antique 1-2 Lausanne Cahiersdrsquoarcheacuteologie romande 276-301
OLSZEWSKI 2005 M T Olszewski ldquoThe Historical Background of the
Zodiac Mosaic Calendar in the Lower Synagogue atHammath-Tiberias raquo Newsletter of American Schools
of Oriental Research 55 nr 3 18
OLSZEWSKI 2005
M T Olszewski laquo Le statut de lrsquoimage selonArteacutemidore et lrsquoart romain raquo H Morlier (ed) Actes du
IX e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque
antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome novembre 2001 Rome Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome-352 II859-880
OLSZEWSKI 2006 M T Olszewski laquo La mosaiumlque de la Fecircte Nocturne
Pannychis de Shahba-Philippopolis et le teacutemoignagedrsquoArteacutemidore de Daldis (Onirocriticon II 61) raquo inKalathos Studies in Honour of Asher Ovadiah TelAviv ASSAPH 2005-2006 Studies in Art History vols10-11 381-390
OLSZEWSKI 2010 M T Olszewski laquo Images allusives Dionysos et Ariane
dans lrsquoespace reacuteserveacute aux femmes (gyneacuteceacutee) Le cas dePtoleacutemaiumls et Cyregravene en Libye raquo in I Bragantini edActes du X Congresso Internazionale AssociationInternationale pour la Peinture Murale AntiqueNeapol 17-21 septembre 2007 Annali di Archeologiae storia antica 181 315 321
OLSZEWSKI 2008 M T Olszewski laquo Orpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque
funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalem raquo Rey Mimoso-Ruiz BMimoso-Ruiz (ed) Actes du colloque laquo Orpheacutee entreSoleil et ombre raquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulouse du16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial
ndash mars 2008 205-214 226OLSZEWSKI 2009 M T Olszewski laquo Identification de cadrans solaires
sur trois mosaiumlques byzantines au Proche-Orientagrave Tayibat al-Imam Jeacuterusalem et Umm al-Rassas(vignette de Sebastis) et quelques autres identificationshypothetiques de gnomons geants (vignettes de KastronMefad a Umm al-Rassas et de Jeacuterusalem agrave Madaba) raquoArcheologia (Warsaw) 60 2009 (in pression)
REBILLARD 2003 E Rebillard Religion et seacutepulture lrsquoEglise les vivants et
les morts dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute tardive EPHESS Collection
civilisations et socieacuteteacutes 115 ParisSEGAL 1959 J B Segal ldquoNew Mosaics from Edessardquo Archaeology
12 150-157
STONE 2006 M E Stone Apocrypha Pseudepigrapha and Armenian
Sudies Collected Papers Leuven
STRZYGOWSKI 1901 J Strzygowski ldquoDa Neuegefundene Orpheus Mosaik in
Jerusalemrdquo ZDPV 24 139-165
TUumlLEK 1998 F Tuumllek Efsuncu Orpheus ndash Orpheus the Magician
The Transition of Orpheus theme from Poganism toChristianity in late Roman-Early Byzantine MosaicsIstanbul
VIEILLEFON 2003 L Vieillefon La figure drsquoOrpheeacute dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute
tardive Les mutations drsquoun mythe du heacuteros paiumlen auchantre chreacutetien Paris De Boccard
VINCENT 1901 H Vincent laquo Une mosaiumlque byzantine agrave Jeacuterusalem raquo
RB 10 436-444
VINCENT 1902 H Vincent laquo La mosaiumlque drsquoOrpheacutee raquo RB 11
100-103
WOLFF 2000 E Wolff La poeacutesie funeacuteraire eacutepigraphique agrave Rome
Rennes
WREDE 1981 H Wrede Consecratio in formam deorumVergoumlttlich-
te Privatpersonen in der roumlmischen Kaiserzeit Mainz
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e Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem inthe Archaeological Museum at Istanbul
Abstracte late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room approximately 18 m 2 in area connected with twoeven smaller ones in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb)discovered in the ancient necropolis by the Damascene Gate in Jerusalem it was discovered in 1901 by H Vincente author proposes a new interpretation of the iconographic program of the Orpheus myth used by wealthyChristians in a sepulchral context (see Olszewski MT laquoOrpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalemraquoin Rey Mimoso-Ruiz B ed Actes du colloque laquoOrpheacutee entre Soleil et ombreraquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulousedu 16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial ndash mars 2008 205-214 226) He also proposes a newinterpretation of the role Orpheus played in Roman funerary art concentrating on the importance of the play onwords and the visual and textual punning that was popular in ancient art and especially in funerary art He rejectsthe popular interpretation of Orpheus as Christ in the Roman catacombs and proposes to interpret the image asthat of Orpheus bard of the departed souls without any ahistorical connection with Christ e program of themosaic from Jerusalem is thus explained as a play on the words Orpheus-orphanos and Chiron (Chi-Rho) and Pan[ Παν(τοκράτωρ)] e frequently used Christian funerary formula of resting in peace Christ or the Lord corre-sponds perfectly with the mood created around the mythical bard Orpheusrsquo universal role as singer and musician
moving even the most stony of hearts extolling the beloved departed is absolutely justified in the context of a6th-century Christian tomb Orpheus is a popular and neutral figure meaning that in effect it does not constitute athreat to Christian theology and can be tolerated by the educated Christians of Jerusalem
Keywords funerary mosaic sundial Orpheus play on words (Orpheus-orphanos) Christogram (Chi-Rho)Christ Pantokrator
Department of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Ul KrakowskiePrzedmieście 2628 00-927 Warszawa Poland E-mail tycjanolszewskiyahoofr
e funerary mosaic was discovered in an extra
muros cemetery near the Damascene Gate in Je-rusalem and published by its discoverer H Vin-cent in two articles in the Revue Biblique one inthe year of its discovery in 1901 and the other in
1902 (Vincent 1901 436-444 Vincent 1902 100-103) It was subsequently moved to the Museumin Istanbul where it remains one of the most price-less pieces on exhibition in this rich collectione mosaic has been the object of discussion and
interpretation by troves of researchers in ancientart (Bliss 1901 46-49 Strzygowski 1901 139-165Begatti 1952 145-160 Avi-Yonah 1933 nr 133172-173 Mucznik et al 2004 193-208 = Ovadiah- Mucznik 1981 152-166 Friedman 1969 1-36
Jesnick 1997 nr 73 141 Tuumllek 1998) Despite thisit has proved difficult to interpret and to explainespecially the relationship between the pagantheme of the VIth century mosaic and his Chris-tian context (Olszewski 2008 205-214 226)
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 659
1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalem raquo Rey Mimoso-Ruiz BMimoso-Ruiz (ed) Actes du colloque laquo Orpheacutee entreSoleil et ombre raquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulouse du16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial
ndash mars 2008 205-214 226OLSZEWSKI 2009 M T Olszewski laquo Identification de cadrans solaires
sur trois mosaiumlques byzantines au Proche-Orientagrave Tayibat al-Imam Jeacuterusalem et Umm al-Rassas(vignette de Sebastis) et quelques autres identificationshypothetiques de gnomons geants (vignettes de KastronMefad a Umm al-Rassas et de Jeacuterusalem agrave Madaba) raquoArcheologia (Warsaw) 60 2009 (in pression)
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12 150-157
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Jerusalemrdquo ZDPV 24 139-165
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The Transition of Orpheus theme from Poganism toChristianity in late Roman-Early Byzantine MosaicsIstanbul
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VINCENT 1901 H Vincent laquo Une mosaiumlque byzantine agrave Jeacuterusalem raquo
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VINCENT 1902 H Vincent laquo La mosaiumlque drsquoOrpheacutee raquo RB 11
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WREDE 1981 H Wrede Consecratio in formam deorumVergoumlttlich-
te Privatpersonen in der roumlmischen Kaiserzeit Mainz
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e floor mosaic decorated a large rectangu-lar hall (570 m x 320 m) furnished with a smallapse (Cf Olszewski 2008 207 n 4) (085 m) inthe northeastern wall paved with a white mosaicin the center of which there is the sign of a cross
flanked by entrances to two small rooms (210 mx 190 m and 210 m x 105 m) with geometricpavements1 H Vincent identified the structure asa funerary chapel or tomb standing in a Christiannecropolis (Fig 1)
All the mosaic floors were executed in theopus tesselatum technique (Fig 2) e floor mo-saic in the main hall is composed of a central rec-tangular panel with figural (Mucznik et al 2004(1981) 198) decoration surrounded by a wideborder (375 m x 298 m Fig 3) e panel frameis formed of large acanthus leaves forming ldquoliverdquo
or ldquopeopledrdquo medallions with a black background(Fig 4a-d) Each medallion bears a zoomorphicrepresentation a still life or a female bust (Fig 4a)interpreted as Tyche (Jerusalem2) by A Ovadiahe corner medallions hold one head each twoof these images depict a bearded old man two a
youth (Fig 4a-d)e center panel (2 m x 124 m) shows a beard-
less young Orpheus in sitting position (Fig 5)His long and curling tresses escape from undera Phrygian cap He is dressed in the ldquoOrientalrdquo
fashion in a long-sleeved and richly embroideredtunic of light blue color and a mantle pinned onthe right shoulder with a golden fibula His feetare sandaled Orpheus plays the kitharos and athis feet there are depicted Pan and the centaurChiron leaning on a shepherdrsquos stick ( pedum)Among the animals represented around the sing-er an eagle or rather hunting falcon (Avi-Yonah
1 Another memorial chapel (tomb) with a Bird mosaicand Armenian inscription (second half of the 6th-7th c AD)was found about 100 m away from the Orpheus chapel Itis interesting that the room of this chapel also furnishedwith an apse at the east end was rectangular 630 m longand 390 m wide almost like that of the Orpheus chapel cfStone 2006 655-671 Taking into consideration the size ofthe building dimensions of the rooms their decoration andthe location of the structure it should be interepreted in thisauthorrsquos opinion as a tomb
2 See the personification of Madaba from the Hall ofHippolyte in Madaba Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989 Fig VII
Fig 1
Plan of the building
identified as a burial
chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalm (Ovadiah
2004 194 fig 1)
Fig 2
The Orpheus mosaic in
the principal hall of a
burial chapel (tomb) from
Jerusalem (Cimok 1997149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 659
1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalem raquo Rey Mimoso-Ruiz BMimoso-Ruiz (ed) Actes du colloque laquo Orpheacutee entreSoleil et ombre raquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulouse du16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial
ndash mars 2008 205-214 226OLSZEWSKI 2009 M T Olszewski laquo Identification de cadrans solaires
sur trois mosaiumlques byzantines au Proche-Orientagrave Tayibat al-Imam Jeacuterusalem et Umm al-Rassas(vignette de Sebastis) et quelques autres identificationshypothetiques de gnomons geants (vignettes de KastronMefad a Umm al-Rassas et de Jeacuterusalem agrave Madaba) raquoArcheologia (Warsaw) 60 2009 (in pression)
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les morts dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute tardive EPHESS Collection
civilisations et socieacuteteacutes 115 ParisSEGAL 1959 J B Segal ldquoNew Mosaics from Edessardquo Archaeology
12 150-157
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Sudies Collected Papers Leuven
STRZYGOWSKI 1901 J Strzygowski ldquoDa Neuegefundene Orpheus Mosaik in
Jerusalemrdquo ZDPV 24 139-165
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The Transition of Orpheus theme from Poganism toChristianity in late Roman-Early Byzantine MosaicsIstanbul
VIEILLEFON 2003 L Vieillefon La figure drsquoOrpheeacute dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute
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VINCENT 1901 H Vincent laquo Une mosaiumlque byzantine agrave Jeacuterusalem raquo
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VINCENT 1902 H Vincent laquo La mosaiumlque drsquoOrpheacutee raquo RB 11
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WOLFF 2000 E Wolff La poeacutesie funeacuteraire eacutepigraphique agrave Rome
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WREDE 1981 H Wrede Consecratio in formam deorumVergoumlttlich-
te Privatpersonen in der roumlmischen Kaiserzeit Mainz
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 657
1933 37) is to be distinguished its neck decorat-ed with a stone pendant featuring a drawing of across (Friedman 1967) () there is also a chaineddomesticated mongoose with a collar round itsneck attempting to catch a viper a bear ramsmall bird hare and possibly a lizard
A small figural panel (070 m x 067 m) is foundto the northeast and on the line of symmetry ofthe central panel On either side of it there arerectangular blocks of stone (020 m x 060 m x034 m) of uncertain function (pilasters perhaps)both encircled by a geometric border (Fig 6) efigural panel depicts two standing females ap-parently young dressed in long and richly deco-rated tunics and mantles (Fig 7) ey have whatappears to be a halo () around the head one of
these haloes is obviously composed of a numberof different colors forming what looks like a cross(eodosia) e woman on the left is identifiedwith a vertical Greek legend naming her as eo-dosia she holds a rose or lily flower in her hand3
3 Avi Yonah 1933 173 n 2 identifies it as a scarf Bagatti 1952 151 n 2 as a palm leaf Mucznik Ovadiah andTurnhaim 2004 (1981) 199 as a lotus
Fig 3 The Orpheus pseudo-emblema with a border of
ldquopeopledrdquo scrolls (Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 4 a-d Border composed of large acanthus leaves forming
ldquopeopledrdquo medallions on a black background
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 5 Pseudo-emblema of the Orpheus mosaic
(Cimok 1997 149 fig 67)
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalem raquo Rey Mimoso-Ruiz BMimoso-Ruiz (ed) Actes du colloque laquo Orpheacutee entreSoleil et ombre raquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulouse du16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial
ndash mars 2008 205-214 226OLSZEWSKI 2009 M T Olszewski laquo Identification de cadrans solaires
sur trois mosaiumlques byzantines au Proche-Orientagrave Tayibat al-Imam Jeacuterusalem et Umm al-Rassas(vignette de Sebastis) et quelques autres identificationshypothetiques de gnomons geants (vignettes de KastronMefad a Umm al-Rassas et de Jeacuterusalem agrave Madaba) raquoArcheologia (Warsaw) 60 2009 (in pression)
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les morts dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute tardive EPHESS Collection
civilisations et socieacuteteacutes 115 ParisSEGAL 1959 J B Segal ldquoNew Mosaics from Edessardquo Archaeology
12 150-157
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Sudies Collected Papers Leuven
STRZYGOWSKI 1901 J Strzygowski ldquoDa Neuegefundene Orpheus Mosaik in
Jerusalemrdquo ZDPV 24 139-165
TUumlLEK 1998 F Tuumllek Efsuncu Orpheus ndash Orpheus the Magician
The Transition of Orpheus theme from Poganism toChristianity in late Roman-Early Byzantine MosaicsIstanbul
VIEILLEFON 2003 L Vieillefon La figure drsquoOrpheeacute dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute
tardive Les mutations drsquoun mythe du heacuteros paiumlen auchantre chreacutetien Paris De Boccard
VINCENT 1901 H Vincent laquo Une mosaiumlque byzantine agrave Jeacuterusalem raquo
RB 10 436-444
VINCENT 1902 H Vincent laquo La mosaiumlque drsquoOrpheacutee raquo RB 11
100-103
WOLFF 2000 E Wolff La poeacutesie funeacuteraire eacutepigraphique agrave Rome
Rennes
WREDE 1981 H Wrede Consecratio in formam deorumVergoumlttlich-
te Privatpersonen in der roumlmischen Kaiserzeit Mainz
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e other woman has the name Georgia writtenwith cubes next to her figure and she holds a bird(dove ) Both the bird and the flower are in theAncient tradition attributes of charm and beautysweetness and female allure
Between the two figures there is a small col-umn with a fillet tied around the middle4 A mys-terious object is shown on top of it schematicallyrendered in the shape of a T it is observed to havea tiny projection on the top bar distinctly markedwith a color tessera is object resembles thesundials (hemicyclia) that were often erectedin the market squares of ancient towns to showtime ey were put up on columns or pedestalsso as to make them readily visible to passers-byoften of human height e small tessera at thetop of the column would be the gnomon in sucha case5
H Vincent believed and rightly so thesetwo figures to be a representation of the females
4 For Vincent 1901 439 n 1 it is a lamp-stand for Ova-diah 1981 199 a column for Avi-Yonah1933 173 n 2 bothpossibilities are acceptable
5 is new identification of the sundial on the columnon the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem will be presented bythe author in a separate paper cf Olszewski 2009
buried in the tomb6 Other theories which calledfor interpreting the two women as female person-ifications of abstract ideas (Friedman 1969 n 69Mucznik et al 2004 (1981) 201) seem much lessprobable
Further to the northeast there is a rectangu-lar band of four medallions two round ones andtwo square ones formed by a wide twisted cableRepresented in each are two almost naked hunt-ers in mantles blowing in the wind attacking twobig felines a panther and a lion
e first appearance of the theme of Orpheusin Greek art and its numerous representationsare well known and studied (Garezou 1992 81-105 (cf bibliography)) In Roman art the subjectof the lyre-playing musician encircled by animalsbecame extremely popular from the middle of
the 2nd century AD (Vieillefon 2003 22-24) etheme is much more seldom seen in funerary artmdash only 28 examples of such decoration have beenrecorded forming no more than 10 of all knownrepresentations of the scene7
e subject was represented on a few Romanstelae from Pannonia and Noricum (Vieillefon2003 185-186 R11-R16) It was shown also on afew sarcophagi (Vieillefon 2003 191-193 S1-S10)especially Italic ones of the 3rd and 4th century Sixtimes Orpheus was rendered in the catacombs
(Vieillefon 2003 193-194 P1-P6) of Rome reefunerary mosaics are known from tombs or chap-els found in North Africa (Vieillefon 2003 164A11-A12 (cf bibliography) Garezou 1992 92 ndeg114 Lazreg 2002 488-490) Two of these namelyone from Cherchel dated to 342 and another oneof the 4th century from Constantine have not sur-
vived e third discovered quite recently origi-nates from Leptimus and is dated to the end ofthe 4th or the beginning of the 5 th century Twoother funerary mosaics with the Orpheus theme(the whole set counts six pavements) are known
from the Near East (Segal 1959 150-157 Drijvers
6 Vincent 1901 441 Avi-Yonah 1933 37 Friedman1969 27 shares this opinion and considers it possible thatthe mosaic was commissioned by two women of high socialstatus the deceased eodosia and Georgia
7 Vieillefon 2003 165 sqq Garezou 1992 102 Jesnick1997 collected all representations of Orpheus in Roman mo-saic art
Fig 7
Small panel with
representation of
Theodosia and Georgiaseparated by the column
with sundial (Cimok
1997 149 fig 67)
Fig 6
Small panel with its
border (Cimok 1997
149 fig 67)
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1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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Marek Titien Olszewski662
was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31
AVI-YONAH 1933
M Avi-Yonah ldquoMosaic Pavements in PalestinerdquoQuarterly of the Departament of Antiquities in Palestine 2 nr 133 172-173
BAILLY 1960 A Bailly Dictionnaire grec-franccedilais Paris
BALTY 1977 J Balty Mosaiumlques de Syrie Bruxelles
BALTY ndash BALTY 1974 J Balty - J-Ch Balty ldquoJulien et Apameacutee Aspects
de la restauration de lrsquoHelleacutenisme et de la politiqueantichreacutetienne de lrsquoemperreurrdquo Dialogue drsquoHistoireAncienne Annales Litteacuteraires de lrsquoUniversiteacute de
Besanccedilon 166 267-304BALTY ndash BALTY 1984 J Balty ndash J-Ch Balty laquoUn programme philosophique
sous la catheacutedrale drsquoApameacutee Lrsquoensemble neacuteoplatoni-cien de lrsquoempereur Julienraquo in Texte et image Actes duColloque de Chantilly 13-15 octobre 1982 Paris 167-176
BARATTE ndash METZGER 1985 F Baratte ndash C Metzger Catalogue des sarcophages en
pierre drsquoeacutepoques romaine et paleacuteochreacutetienne Paris
BARBET 2005 A Barbet (ed) Zeugma II Peintures murales romaines
Varia anatolica XVII ParisBECKWITH 1986 J Beckwith Early Christian and Byzantine Art London
BEGATTI 1952 P B Begatti ldquoIl mosaico dellrsquoOrfeo in Gerusalemmerdquo
RACr 283-4 145-160
BLISS 1901 FJ Bliss ldquoA Mosaic recently discovered at Jerusalemrdquo
Biblical World 18-1 46-49
CIMOK1997 F Cimok Mosaics in Istambul Istanbul
Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie Le protreacuteptique
COLLEDGE 1994 MAR Colledge laquo Some remarks on the Edessa
Funerary Mosaics raquo CMGR IV Vienne 8-14 Aoucirct1994 Tregraveves Paris 189-197
COOL 1996 HEM Cool ldquoThe Boudican Uprising and the Glass
Vessels from Colchesterrdquo Expedition 382 52-62
DRIJVERS 1980 H J Drijvers Cults and Beliefs at Edessa Leiden
ELSNER 2009 J Elsner ldquoDouble Identity Orpheus as David Orpheus
as Christrdquo Biblical Archaeological Review MarchApril 352 34-45
FRIEDMAN 1967 J B Friedman ldquoSyncretism and Allegory in the
Jerusalem Orpheus Mosaicrdquo Traditio 23 1-13
FRIEDMAN 1969 J B Friedman ldquoOrpheus in the Middle Agesrdquo Orpheus-
Christus in the Art of Late Antiquity Cambridge 1-36
GAREZOU 1992 M-X Garezou laquo Orpheus raquo in Lexicon Iconograficum
Mitologiae Classicae VII1(-2) 81-105
Gregory of Nyssa laquo Vie de Macrine raquo
HEALEY 2006
J F Healey ldquoA New Syriac Mosaic Inscriptionrdquo JSSLI2 313-327
JEFFREYS et al 2008 E Jeffreys ndash J Haldon ndash R Cormack The Oxford
Handbook of Byzantine Studies Oxford
JESNICK 1997 I Jesnick The Image of Orpheus in Roman Mosaic An
Exploration of the Figure of Orpheus in Graeco-Roman
Art and Culture with Special Reference to its Expression
in the Medium of MosaIc in Late Antiquity OxfordBAR International Series 671 nr 73 141
LAZREG 2002
N B Lazreg Image de pierre La Tunisie en mosaiumlqueA ben Abed-ben Khader (ed) Paris 488-490
LIDDEL ndash SCOTT 1940 HG Liddel ndash R Scott Greek-English Lexicon
Oxford
MICHAELIDES 1992 D Michaelides Cypriot Mosaics Nicosia
Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie 1989 Cataloguedrsquoexposition au Museacutee de la civilisation gallo-romainede Lyon Fevrier-Mai
MUCZNIK et al 2004 S Mucznik ndash A Ovadiah ndash Y Turnhaim Art in Eretz
Israel in Late Antiquity Collectanea Tel Aviv 193-208= OVADIAH A et MUCZNIK S 1981 ldquoOrpheus fromJerusalem ndash Pagan or Christian Imagerdquo The Jerusalem
Cathedra 1 Jerusalem 152-166
OLSZEWSKI 1995 M T Olszewski laquo Lrsquoimage et sa fonction dans la
mosaiumlque byzantine des premiegraveres basiliques en OrientLrsquoiconographie chreacutetienne expliqueacutee par Cyrille deJeacuterusalem (314-387) raquo CArch 43 9-35
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OLSZEWSKI 2000 M T Olszewski laquo Eacutevocation allusive des maximes des
Sept Sages A propos de la ldquoColegravere drsquoAchilleldquo sur lamosaiumlque de Meacuterida raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LI 37-46 pls IV-V
OLSZEWSKI 2001 MT Olszewski laquo Arteacutemidore mythologie et sym-
bolique funeacuteraire raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LII 39-60pls XI-XV
OLSZEWSKI 2001 M T Olszewski laquo Le langage symbolique dans
la deacutecoration agrave scegravenes mythologiques et sonsens dans les tombes peintes de lrsquoOrient romainNouvelle approche raquoVIIe Colloque de lrsquoAssociation
Internationale pour lrsquoeacutetude de la peinture antiqueSt-Romain-en-Gal 1998 Paris 2001 155-162 plsXXVI-XXIX
OLSZEWSKI 2001
M T Olszewski laquo Mauvais œil et protection contrelrsquoenvie dans la mosaiumlque de Cheikh Zouegravede au Sinaiuml(IV-Ve siegravecle) raquo D Paunier - C Schmidt (eds) Actes du VIIIegraveme Colloque International pour lrsquo eacutetude
de la Mosaiumlque Antique 1-2 Lausanne Cahiersdrsquoarcheacuteologie romande 276-301
OLSZEWSKI 2005 M T Olszewski ldquoThe Historical Background of the
Zodiac Mosaic Calendar in the Lower Synagogue atHammath-Tiberias raquo Newsletter of American Schools
of Oriental Research 55 nr 3 18
OLSZEWSKI 2005
M T Olszewski laquo Le statut de lrsquoimage selonArteacutemidore et lrsquoart romain raquo H Morlier (ed) Actes du
IX e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque
antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome novembre 2001 Rome Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome-352 II859-880
OLSZEWSKI 2006 M T Olszewski laquo La mosaiumlque de la Fecircte Nocturne
Pannychis de Shahba-Philippopolis et le teacutemoignagedrsquoArteacutemidore de Daldis (Onirocriticon II 61) raquo inKalathos Studies in Honour of Asher Ovadiah TelAviv ASSAPH 2005-2006 Studies in Art History vols10-11 381-390
OLSZEWSKI 2010 M T Olszewski laquo Images allusives Dionysos et Ariane
dans lrsquoespace reacuteserveacute aux femmes (gyneacuteceacutee) Le cas dePtoleacutemaiumls et Cyregravene en Libye raquo in I Bragantini edActes du X Congresso Internazionale AssociationInternationale pour la Peinture Murale AntiqueNeapol 17-21 septembre 2007 Annali di Archeologiae storia antica 181 315 321
OLSZEWSKI 2008 M T Olszewski laquo Orpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque
funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalem raquo Rey Mimoso-Ruiz BMimoso-Ruiz (ed) Actes du colloque laquo Orpheacutee entreSoleil et ombre raquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulouse du16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial
ndash mars 2008 205-214 226OLSZEWSKI 2009 M T Olszewski laquo Identification de cadrans solaires
sur trois mosaiumlques byzantines au Proche-Orientagrave Tayibat al-Imam Jeacuterusalem et Umm al-Rassas(vignette de Sebastis) et quelques autres identificationshypothetiques de gnomons geants (vignettes de KastronMefad a Umm al-Rassas et de Jeacuterusalem agrave Madaba) raquoArcheologia (Warsaw) 60 2009 (in pression)
REBILLARD 2003 E Rebillard Religion et seacutepulture lrsquoEglise les vivants et
les morts dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute tardive EPHESS Collection
civilisations et socieacuteteacutes 115 ParisSEGAL 1959 J B Segal ldquoNew Mosaics from Edessardquo Archaeology
12 150-157
STONE 2006 M E Stone Apocrypha Pseudepigrapha and Armenian
Sudies Collected Papers Leuven
STRZYGOWSKI 1901 J Strzygowski ldquoDa Neuegefundene Orpheus Mosaik in
Jerusalemrdquo ZDPV 24 139-165
TUumlLEK 1998 F Tuumllek Efsuncu Orpheus ndash Orpheus the Magician
The Transition of Orpheus theme from Poganism toChristianity in late Roman-Early Byzantine MosaicsIstanbul
VIEILLEFON 2003 L Vieillefon La figure drsquoOrpheeacute dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute
tardive Les mutations drsquoun mythe du heacuteros paiumlen auchantre chreacutetien Paris De Boccard
VINCENT 1901 H Vincent laquo Une mosaiumlque byzantine agrave Jeacuterusalem raquo
RB 10 436-444
VINCENT 1902 H Vincent laquo La mosaiumlque drsquoOrpheacutee raquo RB 11
100-103
WOLFF 2000 E Wolff La poeacutesie funeacuteraire eacutepigraphique agrave Rome
Rennes
WREDE 1981 H Wrede Consecratio in formam deorumVergoumlttlich-
te Privatpersonen in der roumlmischen Kaiserzeit Mainz
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1980 189-192 pl XV Colledge 1994 191 Healey2006 313-327 fig p 315) both of them from theregion of Edessa (Urfa) one from AD 194 and theother from AD 228
e Jerusalem mosaic is the latest in a set of 17
mosaic pavements with the theme known fromthe Eastern Mediterranean8 e style of the geo-metric and figural motifs places the mosaic in themiddle or second half of the 6 th century 9 Stylis-tic parallels with other mosaics from the regionpoint to a local workshop Similarities in terms ofstyle can be drawn between the Jerusalem pave-ment and mosaic floors from Madaba and Gera-sa Suffice it to mention the acanthus leaf motifforming medallions on a black background andcompare it to a similar floral motif from the mid-dle of the 6th century in the Hall of Hippolytos in
Madaba (Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie1989pl IX) en there is another motif of the kindfrom the ldquoPalazzo Bruciatordquo (Mosaiumlques byz-antines 1989 263-265) discovered on the samearchaeological site and finally one last examplefound in a church of the mid 6th century in Mas-suh (Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 262) e headsin the corners of medallions formed by acanthusleaves resemble closely those from a church withthe chapel of Elijah Mary and Soreg in Gerasa(Mosaiumlques byzantines 1989 109 pl X) dated to
the first half of the 7th () centuryAn additional argument in favor of a late dat-ing of the mosaic pavement in question is the ar-rangement of the Greek legends accompanyingthe two female figures eodosia and GeorgiaEach name was written vertically from the bot-tom up in two rows e oldest examples of nameswritten vertically in either mosaics or wall paint-ings come from terminal Late Antiquity that isstarting with the 6th century e first time they
8 Viellefon 2003 178-182 Or1-Or17 the present au-thor rejects the identification of Oprheus on the mosaicsfrom Jenah (Or16) and Gaza (Or 15) because the connectionwith Orpheus is limited to a formal similarity only insteadthe author supplements the above catalogue with mosaicsfrom Sepphoris and Edessa cf Olszewski 2008 208 n 5 re-cently on the mosaics from Gaza and Jerusalem cf Elsner2009 34-45
9 Vincent 1901 443 cf Mucznik Ovadiah and Turn-haim 2004 (1981) 205 (he cites a differents opinions aboutthe datation of the mosaic)
are attested is on mosaic pavements from Cyprusfrom the churches of Panayia Kanakaria in Lyth-rankomi (Michaelides 1992 nr 67-68 115-118)and Panaya Angeloktistos in Kiti (Michaelides1992 nr 69 119-120) and from the monastery of
St Catherine in Sinai (Beckwith1986 104-105)Let us now consider the sense of the iconog-raphy of this mosaic in the context of a Christianfunerary chapel (tomb) Why would a wealthyChristian of the second half of the 6th century com-mission a representation of Orpheus Centaur andPan to decorate the floor of his funerary chapel
e Church Fathers like Clement of Alexan-dria Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Gregory ofNyssa and Augustine for example always con-trasted Orpheus with Christ Never is Christidentified with Orpheus as L Vieillefon pointsout correctly in his study of literary and icono-graphic sources concerning the character ofOrpheus in Late Antiquity (Vieillefon 2003 95-103) e completely false Orpheus-Christ iden-tification found in 20th-century scholarship hasweighed heavily on this issue e theologicaltexts of the Church Fathers speak of Orpheusas a singer capturing the attention of mindlesscreatures in opposition to Christ who exerts hisinfluence on rational beings At the same time itshould be emphasized that in the New Testament
and commentaries Christ is practically neverconnected with either music or wild animals10e figure of Orpheus-Christ is not described oreven mentioned in any ancient literature sourceis identification was borne of Orpheus beingrepresented in the Roman catacombs and onitems of Christian character It is however to mymind merely an overinterpretation in the field ofancient art history
It need not be reiterated that literary texts dif-fer among themselves and often fail to explain
the meaning of iconographic representationsEqually so ancient texts provide no answer as towhy in the first place Orpheus would have beendepicted in the Roman catacombs and on otherobjects with Christian connotations
10 Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie ( Le protreptique) speaksof Christ laquo playing the lyreraquo to give people courageafter Vieillefon 2003 103
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Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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Marek Titien Olszewski662
was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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Artemidorus Onirocriticon II 12
Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31
AVI-YONAH 1933
M Avi-Yonah ldquoMosaic Pavements in PalestinerdquoQuarterly of the Departament of Antiquities in Palestine 2 nr 133 172-173
BAILLY 1960 A Bailly Dictionnaire grec-franccedilais Paris
BALTY 1977 J Balty Mosaiumlques de Syrie Bruxelles
BALTY ndash BALTY 1974 J Balty - J-Ch Balty ldquoJulien et Apameacutee Aspects
de la restauration de lrsquoHelleacutenisme et de la politiqueantichreacutetienne de lrsquoemperreurrdquo Dialogue drsquoHistoireAncienne Annales Litteacuteraires de lrsquoUniversiteacute de
Besanccedilon 166 267-304BALTY ndash BALTY 1984 J Balty ndash J-Ch Balty laquoUn programme philosophique
sous la catheacutedrale drsquoApameacutee Lrsquoensemble neacuteoplatoni-cien de lrsquoempereur Julienraquo in Texte et image Actes duColloque de Chantilly 13-15 octobre 1982 Paris 167-176
BARATTE ndash METZGER 1985 F Baratte ndash C Metzger Catalogue des sarcophages en
pierre drsquoeacutepoques romaine et paleacuteochreacutetienne Paris
BARBET 2005 A Barbet (ed) Zeugma II Peintures murales romaines
Varia anatolica XVII ParisBECKWITH 1986 J Beckwith Early Christian and Byzantine Art London
BEGATTI 1952 P B Begatti ldquoIl mosaico dellrsquoOrfeo in Gerusalemmerdquo
RACr 283-4 145-160
BLISS 1901 FJ Bliss ldquoA Mosaic recently discovered at Jerusalemrdquo
Biblical World 18-1 46-49
CIMOK1997 F Cimok Mosaics in Istambul Istanbul
Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie Le protreacuteptique
COLLEDGE 1994 MAR Colledge laquo Some remarks on the Edessa
Funerary Mosaics raquo CMGR IV Vienne 8-14 Aoucirct1994 Tregraveves Paris 189-197
COOL 1996 HEM Cool ldquoThe Boudican Uprising and the Glass
Vessels from Colchesterrdquo Expedition 382 52-62
DRIJVERS 1980 H J Drijvers Cults and Beliefs at Edessa Leiden
ELSNER 2009 J Elsner ldquoDouble Identity Orpheus as David Orpheus
as Christrdquo Biblical Archaeological Review MarchApril 352 34-45
FRIEDMAN 1967 J B Friedman ldquoSyncretism and Allegory in the
Jerusalem Orpheus Mosaicrdquo Traditio 23 1-13
FRIEDMAN 1969 J B Friedman ldquoOrpheus in the Middle Agesrdquo Orpheus-
Christus in the Art of Late Antiquity Cambridge 1-36
GAREZOU 1992 M-X Garezou laquo Orpheus raquo in Lexicon Iconograficum
Mitologiae Classicae VII1(-2) 81-105
Gregory of Nyssa laquo Vie de Macrine raquo
HEALEY 2006
J F Healey ldquoA New Syriac Mosaic Inscriptionrdquo JSSLI2 313-327
JEFFREYS et al 2008 E Jeffreys ndash J Haldon ndash R Cormack The Oxford
Handbook of Byzantine Studies Oxford
JESNICK 1997 I Jesnick The Image of Orpheus in Roman Mosaic An
Exploration of the Figure of Orpheus in Graeco-Roman
Art and Culture with Special Reference to its Expression
in the Medium of MosaIc in Late Antiquity OxfordBAR International Series 671 nr 73 141
LAZREG 2002
N B Lazreg Image de pierre La Tunisie en mosaiumlqueA ben Abed-ben Khader (ed) Paris 488-490
LIDDEL ndash SCOTT 1940 HG Liddel ndash R Scott Greek-English Lexicon
Oxford
MICHAELIDES 1992 D Michaelides Cypriot Mosaics Nicosia
Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie 1989 Cataloguedrsquoexposition au Museacutee de la civilisation gallo-romainede Lyon Fevrier-Mai
MUCZNIK et al 2004 S Mucznik ndash A Ovadiah ndash Y Turnhaim Art in Eretz
Israel in Late Antiquity Collectanea Tel Aviv 193-208= OVADIAH A et MUCZNIK S 1981 ldquoOrpheus fromJerusalem ndash Pagan or Christian Imagerdquo The Jerusalem
Cathedra 1 Jerusalem 152-166
OLSZEWSKI 1995 M T Olszewski laquo Lrsquoimage et sa fonction dans la
mosaiumlque byzantine des premiegraveres basiliques en OrientLrsquoiconographie chreacutetienne expliqueacutee par Cyrille deJeacuterusalem (314-387) raquo CArch 43 9-35
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Marek Titien Olszewski664
OLSZEWSKI 2000 M T Olszewski laquo Eacutevocation allusive des maximes des
Sept Sages A propos de la ldquoColegravere drsquoAchilleldquo sur lamosaiumlque de Meacuterida raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LI 37-46 pls IV-V
OLSZEWSKI 2001 MT Olszewski laquo Arteacutemidore mythologie et sym-
bolique funeacuteraire raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LII 39-60pls XI-XV
OLSZEWSKI 2001 M T Olszewski laquo Le langage symbolique dans
la deacutecoration agrave scegravenes mythologiques et sonsens dans les tombes peintes de lrsquoOrient romainNouvelle approche raquoVIIe Colloque de lrsquoAssociation
Internationale pour lrsquoeacutetude de la peinture antiqueSt-Romain-en-Gal 1998 Paris 2001 155-162 plsXXVI-XXIX
OLSZEWSKI 2001
M T Olszewski laquo Mauvais œil et protection contrelrsquoenvie dans la mosaiumlque de Cheikh Zouegravede au Sinaiuml(IV-Ve siegravecle) raquo D Paunier - C Schmidt (eds) Actes du VIIIegraveme Colloque International pour lrsquo eacutetude
de la Mosaiumlque Antique 1-2 Lausanne Cahiersdrsquoarcheacuteologie romande 276-301
OLSZEWSKI 2005 M T Olszewski ldquoThe Historical Background of the
Zodiac Mosaic Calendar in the Lower Synagogue atHammath-Tiberias raquo Newsletter of American Schools
of Oriental Research 55 nr 3 18
OLSZEWSKI 2005
M T Olszewski laquo Le statut de lrsquoimage selonArteacutemidore et lrsquoart romain raquo H Morlier (ed) Actes du
IX e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque
antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome novembre 2001 Rome Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome-352 II859-880
OLSZEWSKI 2006 M T Olszewski laquo La mosaiumlque de la Fecircte Nocturne
Pannychis de Shahba-Philippopolis et le teacutemoignagedrsquoArteacutemidore de Daldis (Onirocriticon II 61) raquo inKalathos Studies in Honour of Asher Ovadiah TelAviv ASSAPH 2005-2006 Studies in Art History vols10-11 381-390
OLSZEWSKI 2010 M T Olszewski laquo Images allusives Dionysos et Ariane
dans lrsquoespace reacuteserveacute aux femmes (gyneacuteceacutee) Le cas dePtoleacutemaiumls et Cyregravene en Libye raquo in I Bragantini edActes du X Congresso Internazionale AssociationInternationale pour la Peinture Murale AntiqueNeapol 17-21 septembre 2007 Annali di Archeologiae storia antica 181 315 321
OLSZEWSKI 2008 M T Olszewski laquo Orpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque
funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalem raquo Rey Mimoso-Ruiz BMimoso-Ruiz (ed) Actes du colloque laquo Orpheacutee entreSoleil et ombre raquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulouse du16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial
ndash mars 2008 205-214 226OLSZEWSKI 2009 M T Olszewski laquo Identification de cadrans solaires
sur trois mosaiumlques byzantines au Proche-Orientagrave Tayibat al-Imam Jeacuterusalem et Umm al-Rassas(vignette de Sebastis) et quelques autres identificationshypothetiques de gnomons geants (vignettes de KastronMefad a Umm al-Rassas et de Jeacuterusalem agrave Madaba) raquoArcheologia (Warsaw) 60 2009 (in pression)
REBILLARD 2003 E Rebillard Religion et seacutepulture lrsquoEglise les vivants et
les morts dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute tardive EPHESS Collection
civilisations et socieacuteteacutes 115 ParisSEGAL 1959 J B Segal ldquoNew Mosaics from Edessardquo Archaeology
12 150-157
STONE 2006 M E Stone Apocrypha Pseudepigrapha and Armenian
Sudies Collected Papers Leuven
STRZYGOWSKI 1901 J Strzygowski ldquoDa Neuegefundene Orpheus Mosaik in
Jerusalemrdquo ZDPV 24 139-165
TUumlLEK 1998 F Tuumllek Efsuncu Orpheus ndash Orpheus the Magician
The Transition of Orpheus theme from Poganism toChristianity in late Roman-Early Byzantine MosaicsIstanbul
VIEILLEFON 2003 L Vieillefon La figure drsquoOrpheeacute dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute
tardive Les mutations drsquoun mythe du heacuteros paiumlen auchantre chreacutetien Paris De Boccard
VINCENT 1901 H Vincent laquo Une mosaiumlque byzantine agrave Jeacuterusalem raquo
RB 10 436-444
VINCENT 1902 H Vincent laquo La mosaiumlque drsquoOrpheacutee raquo RB 11
100-103
WOLFF 2000 E Wolff La poeacutesie funeacuteraire eacutepigraphique agrave Rome
Rennes
WREDE 1981 H Wrede Consecratio in formam deorumVergoumlttlich-
te Privatpersonen in der roumlmischen Kaiserzeit Mainz
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Marek Titien Olszewski660
Clarification of the meaning of the Orpheusmosaic in the iconographic program of the funer-ary chapel (tomb) in Jerusalem needs to be soughtelsewhere In Greek orphanos means someonewho has lost his father mother or children while
Orpheus means Orpheus11
e ancient Greeksand Romans were enthusiasts of punning in eve-ryday language as well as in funerary inscrip-tions iconography and the like (Olszewski 2005866) ree kinds of puns were practiced textual
visual and combining text and images Let us recall the names of youths in Petroniusrsquo
Satyricon Cerdon (Benefit) Felicion (Felicity)and Lucron (Profit) (Barbet 2005 39) A similarplay on words is demonstrated by the names ofgladiators on a glass vessel from Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the district of Vendeacute in France but
found at Colchester in Great Britain (Cool 199661-62 figs 14-15) e fighting gladiators werecalled Spiculus (Sting) Calamus (Arrow) Co-lumbus (e Dove) Petraites (Rocky) Prudens(e Careful One) and Proculus (Hammer ) eRomans used puns in the names of living peopleas well as in inscriptions memorizing the deadA small child is called Melissus meaning bothbee and honey in a funerary inscription now heldin the Louvre Elaborate epithets like dulcis anddulcissimus are heaped on it which is naturally
a play on words (Baratte - Metzger 1985 303-304 nr 201) A pedestal erected for one VeturiaGrata has the name presented as an acrostic as awife she was grata ldquopleasantrdquo In another funeraryepitaph the deceased turns out to have borne thename Zelotos meaning ldquoEnviedrdquo and he is saidto have died because Death was ill disposed tohis name (Wolff 2000 104) On yet another fu-nerary tombstone a youth is depicted under theguise of a boar since his name (Aper) meant justthat (Wolff 2000 105) A large collection of ex-amples of puns is included by Artemidoros in
his dream book Onirocriticon He considers thesound and meaning of words like probata (sheep)and probainein (walk forward) onos (ass) and on-
osthai (profit from something) boes (buffalo) and
11 Liddel Scott 1940 sv laquoorphanosraquo Bailly 1960sv laquoorphanosraquo Greek orphanos ldquofatherless orphanrdquofrom which comes English laquoorphanraquo French laquoorphelinraquoand Italian laquoorfaniraquo by way of Latin
boai (commotion noise) and many others (Arte-midorus II 12) thus explaining the meaning ofhis clientsrsquo dreams
Let us now recall a famous mosaic floor depict-ing a gemmed wreath from a 4th-century pagan
building under the cathedral in Apamea e in-scription ldquoeu hrordquo inscribed into the wreath J-Chand J Balty (Balty 1974 267-304 Balty 1984 167-176 Balty 1977 88-89 nr 39) brilliantly explainedas a play on words connecting the formula euhro with the Christian eu hro is is an example ofa combined visual and textual pun the inscrip-tion referring to the famous representation of the
signa Christi ndash Alpha X OmegaIn order to better understand the climate in
which the Jerusalem mosaic was created let us
be transferred for a moment to the cathedralin Apamea and see the ldquomosaique aux riches
couleursrdquo of Bishop Paul executed in 533 (Balty1977 140-143 nr 65-66) It is yet another exam-ple of a play on images and words e programof this pavement encapsulates the internal con-flict of the Orthodox and Monophyiste Churcheswith regard to the nature of Christ
e depiction of Orpheus in the iconographicprogram of a funerary chapel in Jerusalem thatis in a sepulchral context 150 years after the
ban on pagan cults appears to have nothing todo with the so-called ldquoreacuteaction paiumlennerdquo Let usconsider for starters what was the reason for in-cluding representations of Orpheus in tomb dec-oration in previous ages To my mind the paganRomans saw in the image of Orpheus in funer-ary context an allusion to the grief and sorrow ofthose who have lost their loved ones thus refer-ring to the beloved Euridike forever lost to the liv-ing It was their way of rendering the emotions ofpeople in deep mourning illustrating the mourn-
ing cry expressing the suffering of people whohave lost a close one Orpheus sang in praise ofthe dead their goodness and wisdom beauty andintelligence It is not surprising therefore that themythical singer is depicted on tombstones sar-cophagi and funerary mosaic pavements for hissong is believed to attract the attention of pas-sers-by who will thus be made to stop by a grave
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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Marek Titien Olszewski662
was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
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Artemidorus Onirocriticon II 12
Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31
AVI-YONAH 1933
M Avi-Yonah ldquoMosaic Pavements in PalestinerdquoQuarterly of the Departament of Antiquities in Palestine 2 nr 133 172-173
BAILLY 1960 A Bailly Dictionnaire grec-franccedilais Paris
BALTY 1977 J Balty Mosaiumlques de Syrie Bruxelles
BALTY ndash BALTY 1974 J Balty - J-Ch Balty ldquoJulien et Apameacutee Aspects
de la restauration de lrsquoHelleacutenisme et de la politiqueantichreacutetienne de lrsquoemperreurrdquo Dialogue drsquoHistoireAncienne Annales Litteacuteraires de lrsquoUniversiteacute de
Besanccedilon 166 267-304BALTY ndash BALTY 1984 J Balty ndash J-Ch Balty laquoUn programme philosophique
sous la catheacutedrale drsquoApameacutee Lrsquoensemble neacuteoplatoni-cien de lrsquoempereur Julienraquo in Texte et image Actes duColloque de Chantilly 13-15 octobre 1982 Paris 167-176
BARATTE ndash METZGER 1985 F Baratte ndash C Metzger Catalogue des sarcophages en
pierre drsquoeacutepoques romaine et paleacuteochreacutetienne Paris
BARBET 2005 A Barbet (ed) Zeugma II Peintures murales romaines
Varia anatolica XVII ParisBECKWITH 1986 J Beckwith Early Christian and Byzantine Art London
BEGATTI 1952 P B Begatti ldquoIl mosaico dellrsquoOrfeo in Gerusalemmerdquo
RACr 283-4 145-160
BLISS 1901 FJ Bliss ldquoA Mosaic recently discovered at Jerusalemrdquo
Biblical World 18-1 46-49
CIMOK1997 F Cimok Mosaics in Istambul Istanbul
Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie Le protreacuteptique
COLLEDGE 1994 MAR Colledge laquo Some remarks on the Edessa
Funerary Mosaics raquo CMGR IV Vienne 8-14 Aoucirct1994 Tregraveves Paris 189-197
COOL 1996 HEM Cool ldquoThe Boudican Uprising and the Glass
Vessels from Colchesterrdquo Expedition 382 52-62
DRIJVERS 1980 H J Drijvers Cults and Beliefs at Edessa Leiden
ELSNER 2009 J Elsner ldquoDouble Identity Orpheus as David Orpheus
as Christrdquo Biblical Archaeological Review MarchApril 352 34-45
FRIEDMAN 1967 J B Friedman ldquoSyncretism and Allegory in the
Jerusalem Orpheus Mosaicrdquo Traditio 23 1-13
FRIEDMAN 1969 J B Friedman ldquoOrpheus in the Middle Agesrdquo Orpheus-
Christus in the Art of Late Antiquity Cambridge 1-36
GAREZOU 1992 M-X Garezou laquo Orpheus raquo in Lexicon Iconograficum
Mitologiae Classicae VII1(-2) 81-105
Gregory of Nyssa laquo Vie de Macrine raquo
HEALEY 2006
J F Healey ldquoA New Syriac Mosaic Inscriptionrdquo JSSLI2 313-327
JEFFREYS et al 2008 E Jeffreys ndash J Haldon ndash R Cormack The Oxford
Handbook of Byzantine Studies Oxford
JESNICK 1997 I Jesnick The Image of Orpheus in Roman Mosaic An
Exploration of the Figure of Orpheus in Graeco-Roman
Art and Culture with Special Reference to its Expression
in the Medium of MosaIc in Late Antiquity OxfordBAR International Series 671 nr 73 141
LAZREG 2002
N B Lazreg Image de pierre La Tunisie en mosaiumlqueA ben Abed-ben Khader (ed) Paris 488-490
LIDDEL ndash SCOTT 1940 HG Liddel ndash R Scott Greek-English Lexicon
Oxford
MICHAELIDES 1992 D Michaelides Cypriot Mosaics Nicosia
Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie 1989 Cataloguedrsquoexposition au Museacutee de la civilisation gallo-romainede Lyon Fevrier-Mai
MUCZNIK et al 2004 S Mucznik ndash A Ovadiah ndash Y Turnhaim Art in Eretz
Israel in Late Antiquity Collectanea Tel Aviv 193-208= OVADIAH A et MUCZNIK S 1981 ldquoOrpheus fromJerusalem ndash Pagan or Christian Imagerdquo The Jerusalem
Cathedra 1 Jerusalem 152-166
OLSZEWSKI 1995 M T Olszewski laquo Lrsquoimage et sa fonction dans la
mosaiumlque byzantine des premiegraveres basiliques en OrientLrsquoiconographie chreacutetienne expliqueacutee par Cyrille deJeacuterusalem (314-387) raquo CArch 43 9-35
8122019 45 Olszewski Libre
httpslidepdfcomreaderfull45-olszewski-libre 3232
Marek Titien Olszewski664
OLSZEWSKI 2000 M T Olszewski laquo Eacutevocation allusive des maximes des
Sept Sages A propos de la ldquoColegravere drsquoAchilleldquo sur lamosaiumlque de Meacuterida raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LI 37-46 pls IV-V
OLSZEWSKI 2001 MT Olszewski laquo Arteacutemidore mythologie et sym-
bolique funeacuteraire raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LII 39-60pls XI-XV
OLSZEWSKI 2001 M T Olszewski laquo Le langage symbolique dans
la deacutecoration agrave scegravenes mythologiques et sonsens dans les tombes peintes de lrsquoOrient romainNouvelle approche raquoVIIe Colloque de lrsquoAssociation
Internationale pour lrsquoeacutetude de la peinture antiqueSt-Romain-en-Gal 1998 Paris 2001 155-162 plsXXVI-XXIX
OLSZEWSKI 2001
M T Olszewski laquo Mauvais œil et protection contrelrsquoenvie dans la mosaiumlque de Cheikh Zouegravede au Sinaiuml(IV-Ve siegravecle) raquo D Paunier - C Schmidt (eds) Actes du VIIIegraveme Colloque International pour lrsquo eacutetude
de la Mosaiumlque Antique 1-2 Lausanne Cahiersdrsquoarcheacuteologie romande 276-301
OLSZEWSKI 2005 M T Olszewski ldquoThe Historical Background of the
Zodiac Mosaic Calendar in the Lower Synagogue atHammath-Tiberias raquo Newsletter of American Schools
of Oriental Research 55 nr 3 18
OLSZEWSKI 2005
M T Olszewski laquo Le statut de lrsquoimage selonArteacutemidore et lrsquoart romain raquo H Morlier (ed) Actes du
IX e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque
antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome novembre 2001 Rome Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome-352 II859-880
OLSZEWSKI 2006 M T Olszewski laquo La mosaiumlque de la Fecircte Nocturne
Pannychis de Shahba-Philippopolis et le teacutemoignagedrsquoArteacutemidore de Daldis (Onirocriticon II 61) raquo inKalathos Studies in Honour of Asher Ovadiah TelAviv ASSAPH 2005-2006 Studies in Art History vols10-11 381-390
OLSZEWSKI 2010 M T Olszewski laquo Images allusives Dionysos et Ariane
dans lrsquoespace reacuteserveacute aux femmes (gyneacuteceacutee) Le cas dePtoleacutemaiumls et Cyregravene en Libye raquo in I Bragantini edActes du X Congresso Internazionale AssociationInternationale pour la Peinture Murale AntiqueNeapol 17-21 septembre 2007 Annali di Archeologiae storia antica 181 315 321
OLSZEWSKI 2008 M T Olszewski laquo Orpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque
funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalem raquo Rey Mimoso-Ruiz BMimoso-Ruiz (ed) Actes du colloque laquo Orpheacutee entreSoleil et ombre raquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulouse du16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial
ndash mars 2008 205-214 226OLSZEWSKI 2009 M T Olszewski laquo Identification de cadrans solaires
sur trois mosaiumlques byzantines au Proche-Orientagrave Tayibat al-Imam Jeacuterusalem et Umm al-Rassas(vignette de Sebastis) et quelques autres identificationshypothetiques de gnomons geants (vignettes de KastronMefad a Umm al-Rassas et de Jeacuterusalem agrave Madaba) raquoArcheologia (Warsaw) 60 2009 (in pression)
REBILLARD 2003 E Rebillard Religion et seacutepulture lrsquoEglise les vivants et
les morts dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute tardive EPHESS Collection
civilisations et socieacuteteacutes 115 ParisSEGAL 1959 J B Segal ldquoNew Mosaics from Edessardquo Archaeology
12 150-157
STONE 2006 M E Stone Apocrypha Pseudepigrapha and Armenian
Sudies Collected Papers Leuven
STRZYGOWSKI 1901 J Strzygowski ldquoDa Neuegefundene Orpheus Mosaik in
Jerusalemrdquo ZDPV 24 139-165
TUumlLEK 1998 F Tuumllek Efsuncu Orpheus ndash Orpheus the Magician
The Transition of Orpheus theme from Poganism toChristianity in late Roman-Early Byzantine MosaicsIstanbul
VIEILLEFON 2003 L Vieillefon La figure drsquoOrpheeacute dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute
tardive Les mutations drsquoun mythe du heacuteros paiumlen auchantre chreacutetien Paris De Boccard
VINCENT 1901 H Vincent laquo Une mosaiumlque byzantine agrave Jeacuterusalem raquo
RB 10 436-444
VINCENT 1902 H Vincent laquo La mosaiumlque drsquoOrpheacutee raquo RB 11
100-103
WOLFF 2000 E Wolff La poeacutesie funeacuteraire eacutepigraphique agrave Rome
Rennes
WREDE 1981 H Wrede Consecratio in formam deorumVergoumlttlich-
te Privatpersonen in der roumlmischen Kaiserzeit Mainz
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 661
and remember the dead12 At the same time Or-pheusrsquo singing soothes the suffering of mournersIt is equally possible to imagine that the depictionof Orpheus on at least some of the funerary mon-uments actually represents the person who has
lost a beloved wife or husband father or brotheror irreplaceable friend (Wrede 1981 Olszewski2001 39-60)
It is clear from a recent study by E Rebillard(Rebillard 2003) of what the Church Fathers haveto say about the funerary ritual among Christiansthat song and music played an important role ac-companying the deceased right to the grave andfor a long time afterward because the dead werehonored in this manner among others by sing-ing the Psalms and Mourning Songs long afterthey had been entombed In a report from the fu-
neral of a woman called Macrina originating froma wealthy family in Cappadocia sister of two fa-mous bishops Gregory of Nysa who authored theldquoLife of Macrinardquo and Basil of Caesarea it is saidthat the night is spent on the singing of hymnsand melodious reciting of the Psalms e funeralrecalls a liturgical procession with lighted lampsand singing of the Psalms escorting the deceasedto the church where she will be buried13 In turnAugustine (Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31after Rebillard 2003 150) describes how when
death comes relatives sing Psalm 100 in honor ofthe deadSinging Psalms to honor God and the memory
of the deceased at their burial place was a naturaland habitual thing among the Christians justify-ing in full the appearance of images of the mythi-cal singer whose figure was anchored universallyin the common culture in sepulchral contexts(catacombs funerary chapels tombs)
In the Greek sphere the play on the words or-
phanos meaning someone who had lost a closerelative and Orpheus could have been quite
natural
12 In the authorrsquos opinion it is one of the possible in-terpretations of some of the Orpheus funerary mosaics forexemple the one from Edessa Colledge 1984 191 Drijvers1990 191-192
13 Gregory of Nyssa laquoLife of Macrineraquo 25-36 after Re-billard 2003 149
It follows then that the Orpheus from the Jeru-salem tomb could allude to someone who had losteither two beloved daughters or else a belovedwife eodosia and beloved daughter Georgia14the latterrsquos attribute in the form of a dove being
a frequent addition to compositions represent-ing children If it is indeed a lily in eodosiarsquoshands then the flower could signify a womanrsquosmost fruitful age as on a Hellenistic tombstone ofMonofilia from Sardes15 In this case the mythi-cal singer has been depicted trying to soothe thesuffering of those left behind who have come tothe tomb to remember the deceased women withtheir prayers
A play on words visual and textual at the sametime can also be detected in the images of themythical Pan and Centaur shown in this mosaic
e chrism ( ) is depicted frequently on Chris-tian tombs of Late Antiquity e name of Chiron(Χίρον) the Centaur can be read as ΧίΡο(ν) Chi-Rho (= Χριστός) one of the most popular chris-tograms16 and Pan (Πccedilν) as Παν(τοκράτωρ) thusleading us to believe that the two figures shouldbe understood as a graphic representation of theformula Χριστός ό Παντοκράτωρ (Christ the Al-mighty) And it is this Christian formula that ex-plains perfectly the mythological creatures in thepresence of the singer and the peaceful ambience
the effect of the musicianrsquos art which is in keep-ing with the wishes of peace (in the Lord or inChrist) for the dead which are common in tombepitaphs
In seeking justification for the choice of sucha theme for the decoration of a tomb I have at-tempted to reconstruct the mentality of thiswealthy Jerusalemite e first step however
14 About the mythological images in Roman art andtheir allusions to the life of Roman citizens see Olszewski1995 9-35 Olszewski 2000 37-46 pls IV-V Olszewski 2001(2002) 39-60 Olszewski 2001 (1998) 155-162 Olszewski2001 276-301 Olszewski 2005 18 Olszewski 2005 (2001)859-880 Olszewski 2006 381-390 Olszewski 2010 315-321
15 Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Muumlzesi) IstanbulInv nr 4033T
16 A play on words can also be seen in the Sepphorismosaic from the ldquoHouse of the Nilerdquo where the Centaur (Chi-Rho ) is associated with a Greek inscription eos boethos that can be comleted with the known formulas from 6th-century Constantinople ldquoin nomine Dei vivasrdquo and ldquobona vitaerdquo cf Jeffreys Haldon Cormack 2008 197
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Marek Titien Olszewski662
was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
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The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
Bibliography
Artemidorus Onirocriticon II 12
Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31
AVI-YONAH 1933
M Avi-Yonah ldquoMosaic Pavements in PalestinerdquoQuarterly of the Departament of Antiquities in Palestine 2 nr 133 172-173
BAILLY 1960 A Bailly Dictionnaire grec-franccedilais Paris
BALTY 1977 J Balty Mosaiumlques de Syrie Bruxelles
BALTY ndash BALTY 1974 J Balty - J-Ch Balty ldquoJulien et Apameacutee Aspects
de la restauration de lrsquoHelleacutenisme et de la politiqueantichreacutetienne de lrsquoemperreurrdquo Dialogue drsquoHistoireAncienne Annales Litteacuteraires de lrsquoUniversiteacute de
Besanccedilon 166 267-304BALTY ndash BALTY 1984 J Balty ndash J-Ch Balty laquoUn programme philosophique
sous la catheacutedrale drsquoApameacutee Lrsquoensemble neacuteoplatoni-cien de lrsquoempereur Julienraquo in Texte et image Actes duColloque de Chantilly 13-15 octobre 1982 Paris 167-176
BARATTE ndash METZGER 1985 F Baratte ndash C Metzger Catalogue des sarcophages en
pierre drsquoeacutepoques romaine et paleacuteochreacutetienne Paris
BARBET 2005 A Barbet (ed) Zeugma II Peintures murales romaines
Varia anatolica XVII ParisBECKWITH 1986 J Beckwith Early Christian and Byzantine Art London
BEGATTI 1952 P B Begatti ldquoIl mosaico dellrsquoOrfeo in Gerusalemmerdquo
RACr 283-4 145-160
BLISS 1901 FJ Bliss ldquoA Mosaic recently discovered at Jerusalemrdquo
Biblical World 18-1 46-49
CIMOK1997 F Cimok Mosaics in Istambul Istanbul
Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie Le protreacuteptique
COLLEDGE 1994 MAR Colledge laquo Some remarks on the Edessa
Funerary Mosaics raquo CMGR IV Vienne 8-14 Aoucirct1994 Tregraveves Paris 189-197
COOL 1996 HEM Cool ldquoThe Boudican Uprising and the Glass
Vessels from Colchesterrdquo Expedition 382 52-62
DRIJVERS 1980 H J Drijvers Cults and Beliefs at Edessa Leiden
ELSNER 2009 J Elsner ldquoDouble Identity Orpheus as David Orpheus
as Christrdquo Biblical Archaeological Review MarchApril 352 34-45
FRIEDMAN 1967 J B Friedman ldquoSyncretism and Allegory in the
Jerusalem Orpheus Mosaicrdquo Traditio 23 1-13
FRIEDMAN 1969 J B Friedman ldquoOrpheus in the Middle Agesrdquo Orpheus-
Christus in the Art of Late Antiquity Cambridge 1-36
GAREZOU 1992 M-X Garezou laquo Orpheus raquo in Lexicon Iconograficum
Mitologiae Classicae VII1(-2) 81-105
Gregory of Nyssa laquo Vie de Macrine raquo
HEALEY 2006
J F Healey ldquoA New Syriac Mosaic Inscriptionrdquo JSSLI2 313-327
JEFFREYS et al 2008 E Jeffreys ndash J Haldon ndash R Cormack The Oxford
Handbook of Byzantine Studies Oxford
JESNICK 1997 I Jesnick The Image of Orpheus in Roman Mosaic An
Exploration of the Figure of Orpheus in Graeco-Roman
Art and Culture with Special Reference to its Expression
in the Medium of MosaIc in Late Antiquity OxfordBAR International Series 671 nr 73 141
LAZREG 2002
N B Lazreg Image de pierre La Tunisie en mosaiumlqueA ben Abed-ben Khader (ed) Paris 488-490
LIDDEL ndash SCOTT 1940 HG Liddel ndash R Scott Greek-English Lexicon
Oxford
MICHAELIDES 1992 D Michaelides Cypriot Mosaics Nicosia
Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie 1989 Cataloguedrsquoexposition au Museacutee de la civilisation gallo-romainede Lyon Fevrier-Mai
MUCZNIK et al 2004 S Mucznik ndash A Ovadiah ndash Y Turnhaim Art in Eretz
Israel in Late Antiquity Collectanea Tel Aviv 193-208= OVADIAH A et MUCZNIK S 1981 ldquoOrpheus fromJerusalem ndash Pagan or Christian Imagerdquo The Jerusalem
Cathedra 1 Jerusalem 152-166
OLSZEWSKI 1995 M T Olszewski laquo Lrsquoimage et sa fonction dans la
mosaiumlque byzantine des premiegraveres basiliques en OrientLrsquoiconographie chreacutetienne expliqueacutee par Cyrille deJeacuterusalem (314-387) raquo CArch 43 9-35
8122019 45 Olszewski Libre
httpslidepdfcomreaderfull45-olszewski-libre 3232
Marek Titien Olszewski664
OLSZEWSKI 2000 M T Olszewski laquo Eacutevocation allusive des maximes des
Sept Sages A propos de la ldquoColegravere drsquoAchilleldquo sur lamosaiumlque de Meacuterida raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LI 37-46 pls IV-V
OLSZEWSKI 2001 MT Olszewski laquo Arteacutemidore mythologie et sym-
bolique funeacuteraire raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LII 39-60pls XI-XV
OLSZEWSKI 2001 M T Olszewski laquo Le langage symbolique dans
la deacutecoration agrave scegravenes mythologiques et sonsens dans les tombes peintes de lrsquoOrient romainNouvelle approche raquoVIIe Colloque de lrsquoAssociation
Internationale pour lrsquoeacutetude de la peinture antiqueSt-Romain-en-Gal 1998 Paris 2001 155-162 plsXXVI-XXIX
OLSZEWSKI 2001
M T Olszewski laquo Mauvais œil et protection contrelrsquoenvie dans la mosaiumlque de Cheikh Zouegravede au Sinaiuml(IV-Ve siegravecle) raquo D Paunier - C Schmidt (eds) Actes du VIIIegraveme Colloque International pour lrsquo eacutetude
de la Mosaiumlque Antique 1-2 Lausanne Cahiersdrsquoarcheacuteologie romande 276-301
OLSZEWSKI 2005 M T Olszewski ldquoThe Historical Background of the
Zodiac Mosaic Calendar in the Lower Synagogue atHammath-Tiberias raquo Newsletter of American Schools
of Oriental Research 55 nr 3 18
OLSZEWSKI 2005
M T Olszewski laquo Le statut de lrsquoimage selonArteacutemidore et lrsquoart romain raquo H Morlier (ed) Actes du
IX e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque
antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome novembre 2001 Rome Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome-352 II859-880
OLSZEWSKI 2006 M T Olszewski laquo La mosaiumlque de la Fecircte Nocturne
Pannychis de Shahba-Philippopolis et le teacutemoignagedrsquoArteacutemidore de Daldis (Onirocriticon II 61) raquo inKalathos Studies in Honour of Asher Ovadiah TelAviv ASSAPH 2005-2006 Studies in Art History vols10-11 381-390
OLSZEWSKI 2010 M T Olszewski laquo Images allusives Dionysos et Ariane
dans lrsquoespace reacuteserveacute aux femmes (gyneacuteceacutee) Le cas dePtoleacutemaiumls et Cyregravene en Libye raquo in I Bragantini edActes du X Congresso Internazionale AssociationInternationale pour la Peinture Murale AntiqueNeapol 17-21 septembre 2007 Annali di Archeologiae storia antica 181 315 321
OLSZEWSKI 2008 M T Olszewski laquo Orpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque
funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalem raquo Rey Mimoso-Ruiz BMimoso-Ruiz (ed) Actes du colloque laquo Orpheacutee entreSoleil et ombre raquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulouse du16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial
ndash mars 2008 205-214 226OLSZEWSKI 2009 M T Olszewski laquo Identification de cadrans solaires
sur trois mosaiumlques byzantines au Proche-Orientagrave Tayibat al-Imam Jeacuterusalem et Umm al-Rassas(vignette de Sebastis) et quelques autres identificationshypothetiques de gnomons geants (vignettes de KastronMefad a Umm al-Rassas et de Jeacuterusalem agrave Madaba) raquoArcheologia (Warsaw) 60 2009 (in pression)
REBILLARD 2003 E Rebillard Religion et seacutepulture lrsquoEglise les vivants et
les morts dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute tardive EPHESS Collection
civilisations et socieacuteteacutes 115 ParisSEGAL 1959 J B Segal ldquoNew Mosaics from Edessardquo Archaeology
12 150-157
STONE 2006 M E Stone Apocrypha Pseudepigrapha and Armenian
Sudies Collected Papers Leuven
STRZYGOWSKI 1901 J Strzygowski ldquoDa Neuegefundene Orpheus Mosaik in
Jerusalemrdquo ZDPV 24 139-165
TUumlLEK 1998 F Tuumllek Efsuncu Orpheus ndash Orpheus the Magician
The Transition of Orpheus theme from Poganism toChristianity in late Roman-Early Byzantine MosaicsIstanbul
VIEILLEFON 2003 L Vieillefon La figure drsquoOrpheeacute dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute
tardive Les mutations drsquoun mythe du heacuteros paiumlen auchantre chreacutetien Paris De Boccard
VINCENT 1901 H Vincent laquo Une mosaiumlque byzantine agrave Jeacuterusalem raquo
RB 10 436-444
VINCENT 1902 H Vincent laquo La mosaiumlque drsquoOrpheacutee raquo RB 11
100-103
WOLFF 2000 E Wolff La poeacutesie funeacuteraire eacutepigraphique agrave Rome
Rennes
WREDE 1981 H Wrede Consecratio in formam deorumVergoumlttlich-
te Privatpersonen in der roumlmischen Kaiserzeit Mainz
8122019 45 Olszewski Libre
httpslidepdfcomreaderfull45-olszewski-libre 3032
Marek Titien Olszewski662
was understanding the etymological meaning ofthe word orpheus and discovering its connectionwith the popular practice of punning among theancient Greeks and Romans From this point of
view the mythological singer rsquos representation as
a visual and textual play on words expressing griefand sorrow appears well justified in the context ofa cemetery Christian as well as pagan in view ofthe universal character of the Orpheus myth inRoman and Late Antique society e theme ofthe orphanos singer must have been deeply root-ed in both culture and language It is also evidentthat the ties of this representation with paganreligion were rather neutral hence the universal-ity of the theme in Christian iconography and its
neutrality with regard to Christian religions andits dogmas
e mosaic pavement here discussed is an ex-ceptional exemplification of the high culture ofJerusalem urban elites in Late Antiquity and their
return to the models of Classical culture emythological and cultural elements introducedin the iconographic program of the decoration ofthe funerary chapel (tomb) are not aggressive andindeed neutral with regards to the prevailing reli-gious ideology e themes selected for Christiantomb iconography belong to a set tolerated by theChurch not aggressive with regard to Christianreligion and universal in character thus losingany even pagan connotations17
17 I am grateful to Iwona Zych for translating this paperinto English
8122019 45 Olszewski Libre
httpslidepdfcomreaderfull45-olszewski-libre 3132
The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
Bibliography
Artemidorus Onirocriticon II 12
Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31
AVI-YONAH 1933
M Avi-Yonah ldquoMosaic Pavements in PalestinerdquoQuarterly of the Departament of Antiquities in Palestine 2 nr 133 172-173
BAILLY 1960 A Bailly Dictionnaire grec-franccedilais Paris
BALTY 1977 J Balty Mosaiumlques de Syrie Bruxelles
BALTY ndash BALTY 1974 J Balty - J-Ch Balty ldquoJulien et Apameacutee Aspects
de la restauration de lrsquoHelleacutenisme et de la politiqueantichreacutetienne de lrsquoemperreurrdquo Dialogue drsquoHistoireAncienne Annales Litteacuteraires de lrsquoUniversiteacute de
Besanccedilon 166 267-304BALTY ndash BALTY 1984 J Balty ndash J-Ch Balty laquoUn programme philosophique
sous la catheacutedrale drsquoApameacutee Lrsquoensemble neacuteoplatoni-cien de lrsquoempereur Julienraquo in Texte et image Actes duColloque de Chantilly 13-15 octobre 1982 Paris 167-176
BARATTE ndash METZGER 1985 F Baratte ndash C Metzger Catalogue des sarcophages en
pierre drsquoeacutepoques romaine et paleacuteochreacutetienne Paris
BARBET 2005 A Barbet (ed) Zeugma II Peintures murales romaines
Varia anatolica XVII ParisBECKWITH 1986 J Beckwith Early Christian and Byzantine Art London
BEGATTI 1952 P B Begatti ldquoIl mosaico dellrsquoOrfeo in Gerusalemmerdquo
RACr 283-4 145-160
BLISS 1901 FJ Bliss ldquoA Mosaic recently discovered at Jerusalemrdquo
Biblical World 18-1 46-49
CIMOK1997 F Cimok Mosaics in Istambul Istanbul
Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie Le protreacuteptique
COLLEDGE 1994 MAR Colledge laquo Some remarks on the Edessa
Funerary Mosaics raquo CMGR IV Vienne 8-14 Aoucirct1994 Tregraveves Paris 189-197
COOL 1996 HEM Cool ldquoThe Boudican Uprising and the Glass
Vessels from Colchesterrdquo Expedition 382 52-62
DRIJVERS 1980 H J Drijvers Cults and Beliefs at Edessa Leiden
ELSNER 2009 J Elsner ldquoDouble Identity Orpheus as David Orpheus
as Christrdquo Biblical Archaeological Review MarchApril 352 34-45
FRIEDMAN 1967 J B Friedman ldquoSyncretism and Allegory in the
Jerusalem Orpheus Mosaicrdquo Traditio 23 1-13
FRIEDMAN 1969 J B Friedman ldquoOrpheus in the Middle Agesrdquo Orpheus-
Christus in the Art of Late Antiquity Cambridge 1-36
GAREZOU 1992 M-X Garezou laquo Orpheus raquo in Lexicon Iconograficum
Mitologiae Classicae VII1(-2) 81-105
Gregory of Nyssa laquo Vie de Macrine raquo
HEALEY 2006
J F Healey ldquoA New Syriac Mosaic Inscriptionrdquo JSSLI2 313-327
JEFFREYS et al 2008 E Jeffreys ndash J Haldon ndash R Cormack The Oxford
Handbook of Byzantine Studies Oxford
JESNICK 1997 I Jesnick The Image of Orpheus in Roman Mosaic An
Exploration of the Figure of Orpheus in Graeco-Roman
Art and Culture with Special Reference to its Expression
in the Medium of MosaIc in Late Antiquity OxfordBAR International Series 671 nr 73 141
LAZREG 2002
N B Lazreg Image de pierre La Tunisie en mosaiumlqueA ben Abed-ben Khader (ed) Paris 488-490
LIDDEL ndash SCOTT 1940 HG Liddel ndash R Scott Greek-English Lexicon
Oxford
MICHAELIDES 1992 D Michaelides Cypriot Mosaics Nicosia
Mosaiumlques byzantines de Jordanie 1989 Cataloguedrsquoexposition au Museacutee de la civilisation gallo-romainede Lyon Fevrier-Mai
MUCZNIK et al 2004 S Mucznik ndash A Ovadiah ndash Y Turnhaim Art in Eretz
Israel in Late Antiquity Collectanea Tel Aviv 193-208= OVADIAH A et MUCZNIK S 1981 ldquoOrpheus fromJerusalem ndash Pagan or Christian Imagerdquo The Jerusalem
Cathedra 1 Jerusalem 152-166
OLSZEWSKI 1995 M T Olszewski laquo Lrsquoimage et sa fonction dans la
mosaiumlque byzantine des premiegraveres basiliques en OrientLrsquoiconographie chreacutetienne expliqueacutee par Cyrille deJeacuterusalem (314-387) raquo CArch 43 9-35
8122019 45 Olszewski Libre
httpslidepdfcomreaderfull45-olszewski-libre 3232
Marek Titien Olszewski664
OLSZEWSKI 2000 M T Olszewski laquo Eacutevocation allusive des maximes des
Sept Sages A propos de la ldquoColegravere drsquoAchilleldquo sur lamosaiumlque de Meacuterida raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LI 37-46 pls IV-V
OLSZEWSKI 2001 MT Olszewski laquo Arteacutemidore mythologie et sym-
bolique funeacuteraire raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LII 39-60pls XI-XV
OLSZEWSKI 2001 M T Olszewski laquo Le langage symbolique dans
la deacutecoration agrave scegravenes mythologiques et sonsens dans les tombes peintes de lrsquoOrient romainNouvelle approche raquoVIIe Colloque de lrsquoAssociation
Internationale pour lrsquoeacutetude de la peinture antiqueSt-Romain-en-Gal 1998 Paris 2001 155-162 plsXXVI-XXIX
OLSZEWSKI 2001
M T Olszewski laquo Mauvais œil et protection contrelrsquoenvie dans la mosaiumlque de Cheikh Zouegravede au Sinaiuml(IV-Ve siegravecle) raquo D Paunier - C Schmidt (eds) Actes du VIIIegraveme Colloque International pour lrsquo eacutetude
de la Mosaiumlque Antique 1-2 Lausanne Cahiersdrsquoarcheacuteologie romande 276-301
OLSZEWSKI 2005 M T Olszewski ldquoThe Historical Background of the
Zodiac Mosaic Calendar in the Lower Synagogue atHammath-Tiberias raquo Newsletter of American Schools
of Oriental Research 55 nr 3 18
OLSZEWSKI 2005
M T Olszewski laquo Le statut de lrsquoimage selonArteacutemidore et lrsquoart romain raquo H Morlier (ed) Actes du
IX e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque
antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome novembre 2001 Rome Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome-352 II859-880
OLSZEWSKI 2006 M T Olszewski laquo La mosaiumlque de la Fecircte Nocturne
Pannychis de Shahba-Philippopolis et le teacutemoignagedrsquoArteacutemidore de Daldis (Onirocriticon II 61) raquo inKalathos Studies in Honour of Asher Ovadiah TelAviv ASSAPH 2005-2006 Studies in Art History vols10-11 381-390
OLSZEWSKI 2010 M T Olszewski laquo Images allusives Dionysos et Ariane
dans lrsquoespace reacuteserveacute aux femmes (gyneacuteceacutee) Le cas dePtoleacutemaiumls et Cyregravene en Libye raquo in I Bragantini edActes du X Congresso Internazionale AssociationInternationale pour la Peinture Murale AntiqueNeapol 17-21 septembre 2007 Annali di Archeologiae storia antica 181 315 321
OLSZEWSKI 2008 M T Olszewski laquo Orpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque
funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalem raquo Rey Mimoso-Ruiz BMimoso-Ruiz (ed) Actes du colloque laquo Orpheacutee entreSoleil et ombre raquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulouse du16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial
ndash mars 2008 205-214 226OLSZEWSKI 2009 M T Olszewski laquo Identification de cadrans solaires
sur trois mosaiumlques byzantines au Proche-Orientagrave Tayibat al-Imam Jeacuterusalem et Umm al-Rassas(vignette de Sebastis) et quelques autres identificationshypothetiques de gnomons geants (vignettes de KastronMefad a Umm al-Rassas et de Jeacuterusalem agrave Madaba) raquoArcheologia (Warsaw) 60 2009 (in pression)
REBILLARD 2003 E Rebillard Religion et seacutepulture lrsquoEglise les vivants et
les morts dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute tardive EPHESS Collection
civilisations et socieacuteteacutes 115 ParisSEGAL 1959 J B Segal ldquoNew Mosaics from Edessardquo Archaeology
12 150-157
STONE 2006 M E Stone Apocrypha Pseudepigrapha and Armenian
Sudies Collected Papers Leuven
STRZYGOWSKI 1901 J Strzygowski ldquoDa Neuegefundene Orpheus Mosaik in
Jerusalemrdquo ZDPV 24 139-165
TUumlLEK 1998 F Tuumllek Efsuncu Orpheus ndash Orpheus the Magician
The Transition of Orpheus theme from Poganism toChristianity in late Roman-Early Byzantine MosaicsIstanbul
VIEILLEFON 2003 L Vieillefon La figure drsquoOrpheeacute dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute
tardive Les mutations drsquoun mythe du heacuteros paiumlen auchantre chreacutetien Paris De Boccard
VINCENT 1901 H Vincent laquo Une mosaiumlque byzantine agrave Jeacuterusalem raquo
RB 10 436-444
VINCENT 1902 H Vincent laquo La mosaiumlque drsquoOrpheacutee raquo RB 11
100-103
WOLFF 2000 E Wolff La poeacutesie funeacuteraire eacutepigraphique agrave Rome
Rennes
WREDE 1981 H Wrede Consecratio in formam deorumVergoumlttlich-
te Privatpersonen in der roumlmischen Kaiserzeit Mainz
8122019 45 Olszewski Libre
httpslidepdfcomreaderfull45-olszewski-libre 3132
The Orpheus Funerary Mosaic from Jerusalem in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul 663
Bibliography
Artemidorus Onirocriticon II 12
Augustin Confession 9 12 29-31
AVI-YONAH 1933
M Avi-Yonah ldquoMosaic Pavements in PalestinerdquoQuarterly of the Departament of Antiquities in Palestine 2 nr 133 172-173
BAILLY 1960 A Bailly Dictionnaire grec-franccedilais Paris
BALTY 1977 J Balty Mosaiumlques de Syrie Bruxelles
BALTY ndash BALTY 1974 J Balty - J-Ch Balty ldquoJulien et Apameacutee Aspects
de la restauration de lrsquoHelleacutenisme et de la politiqueantichreacutetienne de lrsquoemperreurrdquo Dialogue drsquoHistoireAncienne Annales Litteacuteraires de lrsquoUniversiteacute de
Besanccedilon 166 267-304BALTY ndash BALTY 1984 J Balty ndash J-Ch Balty laquoUn programme philosophique
sous la catheacutedrale drsquoApameacutee Lrsquoensemble neacuteoplatoni-cien de lrsquoempereur Julienraquo in Texte et image Actes duColloque de Chantilly 13-15 octobre 1982 Paris 167-176
BARATTE ndash METZGER 1985 F Baratte ndash C Metzger Catalogue des sarcophages en
pierre drsquoeacutepoques romaine et paleacuteochreacutetienne Paris
BARBET 2005 A Barbet (ed) Zeugma II Peintures murales romaines
Varia anatolica XVII ParisBECKWITH 1986 J Beckwith Early Christian and Byzantine Art London
BEGATTI 1952 P B Begatti ldquoIl mosaico dellrsquoOrfeo in Gerusalemmerdquo
RACr 283-4 145-160
BLISS 1901 FJ Bliss ldquoA Mosaic recently discovered at Jerusalemrdquo
Biblical World 18-1 46-49
CIMOK1997 F Cimok Mosaics in Istambul Istanbul
Cleacutement drsquoAlexendrie Le protreacuteptique
COLLEDGE 1994 MAR Colledge laquo Some remarks on the Edessa
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J F Healey ldquoA New Syriac Mosaic Inscriptionrdquo JSSLI2 313-327
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N B Lazreg Image de pierre La Tunisie en mosaiumlqueA ben Abed-ben Khader (ed) Paris 488-490
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OLSZEWSKI 1995 M T Olszewski laquo Lrsquoimage et sa fonction dans la
mosaiumlque byzantine des premiegraveres basiliques en OrientLrsquoiconographie chreacutetienne expliqueacutee par Cyrille deJeacuterusalem (314-387) raquo CArch 43 9-35
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OLSZEWSKI 2000 M T Olszewski laquo Eacutevocation allusive des maximes des
Sept Sages A propos de la ldquoColegravere drsquoAchilleldquo sur lamosaiumlque de Meacuterida raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LI 37-46 pls IV-V
OLSZEWSKI 2001 MT Olszewski laquo Arteacutemidore mythologie et sym-
bolique funeacuteraire raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LII 39-60pls XI-XV
OLSZEWSKI 2001 M T Olszewski laquo Le langage symbolique dans
la deacutecoration agrave scegravenes mythologiques et sonsens dans les tombes peintes de lrsquoOrient romainNouvelle approche raquoVIIe Colloque de lrsquoAssociation
Internationale pour lrsquoeacutetude de la peinture antiqueSt-Romain-en-Gal 1998 Paris 2001 155-162 plsXXVI-XXIX
OLSZEWSKI 2001
M T Olszewski laquo Mauvais œil et protection contrelrsquoenvie dans la mosaiumlque de Cheikh Zouegravede au Sinaiuml(IV-Ve siegravecle) raquo D Paunier - C Schmidt (eds) Actes du VIIIegraveme Colloque International pour lrsquo eacutetude
de la Mosaiumlque Antique 1-2 Lausanne Cahiersdrsquoarcheacuteologie romande 276-301
OLSZEWSKI 2005 M T Olszewski ldquoThe Historical Background of the
Zodiac Mosaic Calendar in the Lower Synagogue atHammath-Tiberias raquo Newsletter of American Schools
of Oriental Research 55 nr 3 18
OLSZEWSKI 2005
M T Olszewski laquo Le statut de lrsquoimage selonArteacutemidore et lrsquoart romain raquo H Morlier (ed) Actes du
IX e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque
antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome novembre 2001 Rome Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome-352 II859-880
OLSZEWSKI 2006 M T Olszewski laquo La mosaiumlque de la Fecircte Nocturne
Pannychis de Shahba-Philippopolis et le teacutemoignagedrsquoArteacutemidore de Daldis (Onirocriticon II 61) raquo inKalathos Studies in Honour of Asher Ovadiah TelAviv ASSAPH 2005-2006 Studies in Art History vols10-11 381-390
OLSZEWSKI 2010 M T Olszewski laquo Images allusives Dionysos et Ariane
dans lrsquoespace reacuteserveacute aux femmes (gyneacuteceacutee) Le cas dePtoleacutemaiumls et Cyregravene en Libye raquo in I Bragantini edActes du X Congresso Internazionale AssociationInternationale pour la Peinture Murale AntiqueNeapol 17-21 septembre 2007 Annali di Archeologiae storia antica 181 315 321
OLSZEWSKI 2008 M T Olszewski laquo Orpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque
funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalem raquo Rey Mimoso-Ruiz BMimoso-Ruiz (ed) Actes du colloque laquo Orpheacutee entreSoleil et ombre raquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulouse du16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial
ndash mars 2008 205-214 226OLSZEWSKI 2009 M T Olszewski laquo Identification de cadrans solaires
sur trois mosaiumlques byzantines au Proche-Orientagrave Tayibat al-Imam Jeacuterusalem et Umm al-Rassas(vignette de Sebastis) et quelques autres identificationshypothetiques de gnomons geants (vignettes de KastronMefad a Umm al-Rassas et de Jeacuterusalem agrave Madaba) raquoArcheologia (Warsaw) 60 2009 (in pression)
REBILLARD 2003 E Rebillard Religion et seacutepulture lrsquoEglise les vivants et
les morts dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute tardive EPHESS Collection
civilisations et socieacuteteacutes 115 ParisSEGAL 1959 J B Segal ldquoNew Mosaics from Edessardquo Archaeology
12 150-157
STONE 2006 M E Stone Apocrypha Pseudepigrapha and Armenian
Sudies Collected Papers Leuven
STRZYGOWSKI 1901 J Strzygowski ldquoDa Neuegefundene Orpheus Mosaik in
Jerusalemrdquo ZDPV 24 139-165
TUumlLEK 1998 F Tuumllek Efsuncu Orpheus ndash Orpheus the Magician
The Transition of Orpheus theme from Poganism toChristianity in late Roman-Early Byzantine MosaicsIstanbul
VIEILLEFON 2003 L Vieillefon La figure drsquoOrpheeacute dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute
tardive Les mutations drsquoun mythe du heacuteros paiumlen auchantre chreacutetien Paris De Boccard
VINCENT 1901 H Vincent laquo Une mosaiumlque byzantine agrave Jeacuterusalem raquo
RB 10 436-444
VINCENT 1902 H Vincent laquo La mosaiumlque drsquoOrpheacutee raquo RB 11
100-103
WOLFF 2000 E Wolff La poeacutesie funeacuteraire eacutepigraphique agrave Rome
Rennes
WREDE 1981 H Wrede Consecratio in formam deorumVergoumlttlich-
te Privatpersonen in der roumlmischen Kaiserzeit Mainz
8122019 45 Olszewski Libre
httpslidepdfcomreaderfull45-olszewski-libre 3232
Marek Titien Olszewski664
OLSZEWSKI 2000 M T Olszewski laquo Eacutevocation allusive des maximes des
Sept Sages A propos de la ldquoColegravere drsquoAchilleldquo sur lamosaiumlque de Meacuterida raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LI 37-46 pls IV-V
OLSZEWSKI 2001 MT Olszewski laquo Arteacutemidore mythologie et sym-
bolique funeacuteraire raquo Archeologia (Warsaw) LII 39-60pls XI-XV
OLSZEWSKI 2001 M T Olszewski laquo Le langage symbolique dans
la deacutecoration agrave scegravenes mythologiques et sonsens dans les tombes peintes de lrsquoOrient romainNouvelle approche raquoVIIe Colloque de lrsquoAssociation
Internationale pour lrsquoeacutetude de la peinture antiqueSt-Romain-en-Gal 1998 Paris 2001 155-162 plsXXVI-XXIX
OLSZEWSKI 2001
M T Olszewski laquo Mauvais œil et protection contrelrsquoenvie dans la mosaiumlque de Cheikh Zouegravede au Sinaiuml(IV-Ve siegravecle) raquo D Paunier - C Schmidt (eds) Actes du VIIIegraveme Colloque International pour lrsquo eacutetude
de la Mosaiumlque Antique 1-2 Lausanne Cahiersdrsquoarcheacuteologie romande 276-301
OLSZEWSKI 2005 M T Olszewski ldquoThe Historical Background of the
Zodiac Mosaic Calendar in the Lower Synagogue atHammath-Tiberias raquo Newsletter of American Schools
of Oriental Research 55 nr 3 18
OLSZEWSKI 2005
M T Olszewski laquo Le statut de lrsquoimage selonArteacutemidore et lrsquoart romain raquo H Morlier (ed) Actes du
IX e colloque international pour lrsquoeacutetude de la mosaiumlque
antique et meacutedieacutevale Rome novembre 2001 Rome Collection de lrsquoEacutecole franccedilaise de Rome-352 II859-880
OLSZEWSKI 2006 M T Olszewski laquo La mosaiumlque de la Fecircte Nocturne
Pannychis de Shahba-Philippopolis et le teacutemoignagedrsquoArteacutemidore de Daldis (Onirocriticon II 61) raquo inKalathos Studies in Honour of Asher Ovadiah TelAviv ASSAPH 2005-2006 Studies in Art History vols10-11 381-390
OLSZEWSKI 2010 M T Olszewski laquo Images allusives Dionysos et Ariane
dans lrsquoespace reacuteserveacute aux femmes (gyneacuteceacutee) Le cas dePtoleacutemaiumls et Cyregravene en Libye raquo in I Bragantini edActes du X Congresso Internazionale AssociationInternationale pour la Peinture Murale AntiqueNeapol 17-21 septembre 2007 Annali di Archeologiae storia antica 181 315 321
OLSZEWSKI 2008 M T Olszewski laquo Orpheacutee endeuilleacute de la mosaiumlque
funeacuteraire de Jeacuterusalem raquo Rey Mimoso-Ruiz BMimoso-Ruiz (ed) Actes du colloque laquo Orpheacutee entreSoleil et ombre raquo agrave lrsquoInstitut Catholique de Toulouse du16 au 17 novembre 2007 Inter Lignes numeacuteros speacutecial
ndash mars 2008 205-214 226OLSZEWSKI 2009 M T Olszewski laquo Identification de cadrans solaires
sur trois mosaiumlques byzantines au Proche-Orientagrave Tayibat al-Imam Jeacuterusalem et Umm al-Rassas(vignette de Sebastis) et quelques autres identificationshypothetiques de gnomons geants (vignettes de KastronMefad a Umm al-Rassas et de Jeacuterusalem agrave Madaba) raquoArcheologia (Warsaw) 60 2009 (in pression)
REBILLARD 2003 E Rebillard Religion et seacutepulture lrsquoEglise les vivants et
les morts dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute tardive EPHESS Collection
civilisations et socieacuteteacutes 115 ParisSEGAL 1959 J B Segal ldquoNew Mosaics from Edessardquo Archaeology
12 150-157
STONE 2006 M E Stone Apocrypha Pseudepigrapha and Armenian
Sudies Collected Papers Leuven
STRZYGOWSKI 1901 J Strzygowski ldquoDa Neuegefundene Orpheus Mosaik in
Jerusalemrdquo ZDPV 24 139-165
TUumlLEK 1998 F Tuumllek Efsuncu Orpheus ndash Orpheus the Magician
The Transition of Orpheus theme from Poganism toChristianity in late Roman-Early Byzantine MosaicsIstanbul
VIEILLEFON 2003 L Vieillefon La figure drsquoOrpheeacute dans lrsquoAntiquiteacute
tardive Les mutations drsquoun mythe du heacuteros paiumlen auchantre chreacutetien Paris De Boccard
VINCENT 1901 H Vincent laquo Une mosaiumlque byzantine agrave Jeacuterusalem raquo
RB 10 436-444
VINCENT 1902 H Vincent laquo La mosaiumlque drsquoOrpheacutee raquo RB 11
100-103
WOLFF 2000 E Wolff La poeacutesie funeacuteraire eacutepigraphique agrave Rome
Rennes
WREDE 1981 H Wrede Consecratio in formam deorumVergoumlttlich-
te Privatpersonen in der roumlmischen Kaiserzeit Mainz