Drawing of a venatio, hunting scene
((:venatio))
| Description of Drawing (English): | hunt |
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| Findspot: |
Smyrna, Basilica
(Agora.1)
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| Drawing Category: | Other |
| Writing Style: | Carbone, Pictura |
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| Bibliography: | Bagnall, R. S. et al., Graffiti from the Basilica in the Agora of Smyrna (2016): 114. |
| Commentary: | Small and very damaged dipinto, possibly of a hunting scene or a venatio, located on the left half of the back wall of Bay 8, toward the center. To the left is a human figure in red color, the body turned to the left and the head to the right, as if looking backward. The figure is almost completely faded, the head and the lower legs constituting the better-preserved elements. Above the man and to his right, in black color, is what can be interpreted as an animal. Possibly wounded by the man, the animal is bleeding from two wounds. The blood is rendered as two oblique and parallel lines in red color that depart from the animal and reach down to the man’s feet. Another element in black, roughly rectangular in shape, is visible to the right of the man, but the lines are too faded to allow any certain identification. |
| Suggested Citation: | AGP-SMYD00087, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-SMYD00087> [accessed: 27 Apr 2024] |
| Contributions: |
Editor: Roger S. Bagnall Principal Contributor: Roger S. Bagnall Last Revision: 2016-10-03 |
