KISSAMOS, PHEIDIAS HOUSE - 2009

Kissamos, Pheidias House. S. Markoulaki (ΚΕ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on a mosaic, found in an apsidal room of the so-called Pheidias House, after the completion of conservation work. The house was built in the second century AD and destroyed in the fourth century. The mosaic dates to the late second or early fourth century AD, and illustrates two plays by Menander, the Sikyonios and the Theophoroumene. There are also four portraits of poets (of whom only Homer is preserved) and part of the mosaicist’s signature which indicates that he came from Daphne, a suburb of Antioch.