Alexander Mosaic from Pompeii

[Arthes]

Greetings,

Arthes,

which helmet do You mean, the one in background with the white horse hair crest or the unclear one with the 'funny' face. This whole middle of the mosaic is unclear, immediately before the funny helmeted face is a the forehead of a horse that also has not been executed very well and You see the back of a horse fallen head over that appears somehow without connection to the rest of the scene and even the shank of the sarissa that ends just before the lonely tree is not continued correctly in the middle of the mosaic.

There are several theories what may have happened here. For example that the mosaic maker's team started from both sides and did not meet in the middle correctly and finished the mosaic only unsatisfying. One theory is that the mosaic is assumed to have been only one of many copies of an original wall painting that has been distributed in the whole Roman or Hellenistic world.
Greets - Uwe

the one with the horse hair crest....I see what you mean about the partial horse face....maybe the 'funny face' who looks as though he is wearing a Boetian helm, is leaning over its' head?
I just noticed Darius's chariot driver's hand knocking a spear out of the way too..... :roll:
They think this was commissioned by Cassandros - before or after he did away with all of Alexander's descendants I wonder :evil:
regards
Arthes
regards
Arthes