DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.841#0152
116
DESCRIPTION OF
for a scenic representation. It has been
taken from the floor, and is preserved in the
Studii at Naples.
The mosaic vases, twisted column, and
little figures seem to have nothing to do with
the scene below, but served merely to fill
up the square compartment in the pavement
of the tablinum.
Above and below the mosaics are placed,
to fill up the Plate, tablets or panels of those
curious fish and marine monsters which are
so common at Pompeii.
PLATE XLVI.
SACRIFICE OF IFHIGENIA.
Plate XLVI. represents the sacrifice of
Iphigenia at Aulis. Chalcas had already
taken the fatal knife, and was going to im-
molate the virgin, when Diana, appeased
by the submission of Agamemnon, substi-
tuted a hind in the place of the innocent
victim. The goddess and the animal are
seen in the clouds.
DESCRIPTION OF
for a scenic representation. It has been
taken from the floor, and is preserved in the
Studii at Naples.
The mosaic vases, twisted column, and
little figures seem to have nothing to do with
the scene below, but served merely to fill
up the square compartment in the pavement
of the tablinum.
Above and below the mosaics are placed,
to fill up the Plate, tablets or panels of those
curious fish and marine monsters which are
so common at Pompeii.
PLATE XLVI.
SACRIFICE OF IFHIGENIA.
Plate XLVI. represents the sacrifice of
Iphigenia at Aulis. Chalcas had already
taken the fatal knife, and was going to im-
molate the virgin, when Diana, appeased
by the submission of Agamemnon, substi-
tuted a hind in the place of the innocent
victim. The goddess and the animal are
seen in the clouds.