Object type
mosaic
Culture/period
Roman world
Materials
limestone
Technique
opus musivum
Mint
Production date
100 / 300
Museum
Museu de Badalona
Current location
Exposició permanent
Archaeological site
Ciutat romana de Baetulo. Carrer Pujol
Township
Badalona (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Barcelona, Barcelonès)
Dimensions
1,50 x 1,60 cm
Description
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In this mosaic, the decoration made with black and white tesserae is formed by an outline with four kraters at the corners, from which vines with branches and grapes come out. In the centre, although very lost, the image of a panther and the head of a male goat can be identified. All these elements allude to the Bacchic world and constitute a clear example of the presence of this god in the domestic decoration of the city of Baetulo.
The panther represents the triumph of Bacchus, and the young goat is allusive to his childhood. The kraters and the vine branches recall the crop and the fruit that the god Bacchus protects. The vineyard and its fruit the grape, which once pressed and fermented will become wine that will be drunk from glasses or kraters.
This type of composition is found above all in the south of Italy, in the Republican era, due to the chronology of the mosaic, but we can see it as a very widespread composition also in the late imperial era in the representations made in the reception spaces and triclinar rooms such as the one in the domus where it was found, in the Hort de en Fluvià (Pujol Street) in 2018. This mosaic was located in the centre of the room, around which the beds (klinai) were placed, the rest of the room was paved with opus signinum, without other decoration.
© Museu de Badalona
Omeka ID
1910