Hellenistic Art: Sosos, The Doves on the Edge of a Bowl

Michael Lahanas

Hellenistische Kunst: Die Tauben von Sosos

Roman Copy of a Mosaic produced for the Emperor Hadrian for his Villa of an original work from the second Century BC by Sosos from Pergamon. The work is mentioned by Pliny the Elder. Pliny says that the original showed the mirrored image of the drinking bird from the water surface.

Museum Capitoline: Mosaico delle Colombe Da Tivoli, Villa Adriana (1737), Dono di Clemente XIII

Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World

Roger Ling, Ancient Mosaics, Princeton University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-691-00404-8

Mosaics: Everything You Need to Create Five Original Masterpieces from Ancient Cultures

Piece by Piece!: Mosaics of the Ancient World
 
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