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Nile mosaic of Palestrina : ウィキペディア英語版 | Nile mosaic of Palestrina
The Nile mosaic of Palestrina is a late Hellenistic floor mosaic depicting the Nile in its passage from Ethiopia to the Mediterranean. The mosaic was part of a Classical sanctuary-grotto in Palestrina, Italy. It has a width of 5.85 metres and a height of 4.31 metres and provides the only glimpse into the Roman fascination with Egyptian exoticism in the 1st century BC, both as an early manifestation of the role of Egypt in the European imagination〔Another Nile floor mosaic, in the House of the Faun, Pompeii, is dated by Meyboom 1995, ca 90 BC.〕 and an example of the genre of "Nilotic landscape", with a long iconographic history in Egypt and the Aegean. ==Description== The mosaic, with an arch-headed framing that identifies its original location as flooring an apse in a grotto, features detailed depictions of Ptolemaic Greeks, black Ethiopians in hunting scenes, and various animals of the Nile river.〔A Nilotic monster was identified as a "dinosaur" on (a website ), giving rise to some hopeful Internet speculation on the coexistence of dinosaurs and humans.〕 It is the earliest Roman depiction of Nilotic scenes, of which several more were uncovered at Pompeii.〔Paul G. P. Meyboom, ''The Nile Mosaic of Palestrina: Early Evidence of Egyptian Religion in Italy'', Brill 1995, p.83〕 A consensus on the dating of the work is slowly emerging. Paul G. P. Meyboom suggests a date shortly before the reign of Sulla (ca. 100 BC) and treats the mosaic as an early evidence for the spread of Egyptian cults in Italy, where Isis was syncretised with Fortuna. He believes Nilotic scenes were introduced in Rome by Demetrius the Topographer, a Greek artist from Ptolemaic Egypt active ca. 165 BC. Claire Préaux emphasises the "escapist" nature of the fantastic scenery.〔Préaux, "Graeco-Roman Egypt", in J.R. Harris, ed. ''The Legacy of Egypt'', 1971:340f.〕
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