Close up of mosaic tesserae depicting Alphios with his name above with Arethusa and her name partially visible, after conservation
- Description:
- Close up of mosaic tesserae depicting Alphios with his name above with Arethusa and her name partially visible, after conservation
- Photographer:
- Image captured by Project Staff
- Date Created:
- July 15, 2003
- Collection:
- Greco-Roman Museum Mosaic Conservation
- Series:
- Post-conservation
- Subseries:
- Alphios and Arethusa Mosaic
- Time Period:
- Hellenistic Period and Ptolemaic Period
- Topic:
- Art, Greco-Roman, Greek gods, Greek mythology, Damage--Antiquities, Mosaics, Tesserae, Stonework, Arethusa, and Alpheus
- Genre:
- color photographs
- Conservation Note:
- The mosaic depicts the river god Alphios' pursuit of the water nymph Arethusa. Alphios looks to Arethusa who looks back toward him, with their names written in Greek above their respective representations.
- Copyright Status:
- copyrighted
- Creative Commons License:
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- Local ID:
- arce_ca_mmc_images_0318.tif
- Project History:
- Within the walls of the Greco-Roman Museum, Alexandria, Egypt are three intricate mosaics of very fine quality between the second and third century, BCE. Under the auspices of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), Father Michele Piccirillo of the Studium Biblicum Franciscum directed the conservation of the mosaics. Notably, it resulted in the public viewing of the stag hunt mosaic for the first time since its discovery. Conservation work was made possible with the support of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (formerly the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities).
- Funding Agency:
- Greco-Roman Museum Mosaic Conservation project was made possible with funding by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Grant No. 263-G-00-93-00089-00 and administered by the Egyptian Antiquities Project (EAP) of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE).