Der Einfluss der Mosaiken des vorderen Orients auf hispanische Mosaiken am Ende der Antike

Abstract

Object of this study are the mosaics in Hispania at the end of the Antique that have an influx of oriental mosaics. These mosaics are those of Eros and Psyche in Fraga (Huesca), who have an influx from Antioch and Syria; of Daragoleja (Granada), of Puerta Oscura (Málaga), with an influx from Greece and Syria-Palestine; of Baños de Valdearados (Burgos), with Dionysus; of Dulcitius the hunter, el Ramalete (Navarra). The abundance of mosaics decorated with geometric themes and representations of abstract ideas have an oriental influx. A Syrian mosaist from the later Antoninian period made the cosmogonic mosaic of Augusta Emerita, that is full of abstract personifications and that reminds of one in Gaza and of the mosaic with the birth of Venus in Italica, also of Syrian origin. The Augusta Emerita mosaic with the poets from the 2nd century is the work of Selecus and Anthus. The mosaics with the Seven Wisemen of Greece in Augusta Emerita and with homeric themes in Cabezón del Pisuerga (Valladolid) are owed to Greek artists. Several paleochristian mosaics in the Balearic Islands owe their influx to Palestinian synagogues, probably coming through artists from Orient or copy-books.

Keywords

• myths
• geometric
• augusta emerita
• paleochristian
• copy-books