The mosaic of the Muses bathing in a fountain is a variation on the theme of the Three Graces, which was very popular throughout the whole Roman Empire see an example at Philippopolis , today's Shahba in Syria.
Three Muses, similar to the Graces, were portrayed with one of them turning her back to the viewer. Museum of Nabeul: floor mosaic from Domus Nympharum: Chryses pleading with Agamemnon between Achilles and Ulysses to release his daughter Chryseis by offering gold chains and Apollo's wreath Homer's poems were another source of inspiration for large mosaics. The episode of Chryses pleading for the release of his daughter is described at the very beginning of the Iliad: The wrath sing, goddess, of Peleus' son, Achilles, that destructive wrath which brought countless woes upon the Achaeans, and sent forth to Hades many valiant souls of heroes, and made them themselves spoil for dogs and every bird; thus the plan of Zeus came to fulfilment, from the time when first they parted in strife Atreus' son, king of men, and brilliant Achilles.
Who then of the gods was it that brought these two together to contend? The son of Leto and Zeus Apollo ; for he in anger against the king roused throughout the host an evil pestilence, and the people began to perish, because upon the priest Chryses the son of Atreus had wrought dishonour.
Her I will not set free. Sooner shall old age come upon her in our house, in Argos, far from her native land, as she walks to and fro before the loom and serves my bed. But go, do not anger me, that you may return the safer. Murray Museum of Nabeul: left cocks dropping gold coins from Domus Nympharum ; right fragment of a mosaic with a marine subject Some mosaics are less easily interpreted; they probably refer to sayings we do not know any longer, but which were popular at the time because the subject of the cocks dropping gold coins was found in other mosaics near Nabeul.
According to J. Darmon the cocks are symbols of Himeros, son of Aphrodite and twin of Eros who created uncontrolled sexual desire in those he struck with his arrows. In particular they represented the satisfaction of the desire. The subject of children fishing or otherwise being involved in marine activities was a recurring theme see a mosaic at Uthina.
House and "garum" factory Another house with some fine elegant mosaics was found very near the sea. It probably belonged to the owner of an adjoining factory where garum , a fish based sauce, was manufactured and shipped. Amphorae full of powdery remains of garum with fish bones, fragments of vertebrae and tiny heads of small fry were found in the ruins of the factory. The town lay some 10 Roman miles from Philippi, with which it was connected by a road leading over the mountain ridge named Symbolum, which separates the plain of Philippi from the sea.
The date of its foundation is uncertain, but it seems to have been a colony from the island of Thasos, which lay opposite to it Dio Cassius xlvii. It appears under the name Neopolis, which is also borne on its coins as member both of the first and of the second Athenian confederacy, and was highly commended by the Athenians in an extant decree for its loyalty during the Thasian revolt of B.
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