File:Deer hunt mosaic from Pella.jpg
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A deer hunt, detail from the mosaic floor signed Gnosis in the 'House of the Abduction of Helen' at <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pella&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pella (page does not exist)">Pella</a>, Greece (ancient Macedonia), late 4th century BC, Pella Archaeological Museum. Signed "Gnosis made it". The figure on the right is possibly Alexander the Great due to the date of the mosaic along with the depicted upsweep of his centrally-parted hair (anastole); the figure on the left wielding a double-edged axe (associated with <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hephaistos" class="mw-redirect" title="Hephaistos">Hephaistos</a>) is perhaps <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hephaestion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hephaestion (page does not exist)">Hephaestion</a>, one of Alexander's loyal companions. For further infromation, see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=S-cTfNjEhrcC&lpg=PA79&ots=4DcIz56tQK&dq=Peritas%20Pliny%20Alexander&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q&f=false">Chugg, Andrew (2006). Alexander's Lovers. Raleigh, N.C.: Lulu. ISBN 978-1-4116-9960-1, pp 78-79.</a>
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| current | 14:56, 4 January 2017 | | 462 × 450 (91 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <p>A deer hunt, detail from the mosaic floor signed Gnosis in the 'House of the Abduction of Helen' at <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pella&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pella (page does not exist)">Pella</a>, Greece (ancient Macedonia), late 4th century BC, Pella Archaeological Museum. Signed "Gnosis made it". The figure on the right is possibly Alexander the Great due to the date of the mosaic along with the depicted upsweep of his centrally-parted hair (<i>anastole</i>); the figure on the left wielding a double-edged axe (associated with <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hephaistos" class="mw-redirect" title="Hephaistos">Hephaistos</a>) is perhaps <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hephaestion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hephaestion (page does not exist)">Hephaestion</a>, one of Alexander's loyal companions. For further infromation, see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=S-cTfNjEhrcC&lpg=PA79&ots=4DcIz56tQK&dq=Peritas%20Pliny%20Alexander&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q&f=false">Chugg, Andrew (2006). <i>Alexander's Lovers</i>. Raleigh, N.C.: Lulu. ISBN 978-1-4116-9960-1, pp 78-79.</a> </p> |
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