House of the Drinking Contest

  • Port town of Seleucia Pieria, near Antioch

Mosaic pavement, drinking contest of Herakles and Dionysos; Room 1

  • 3rd century
  • Princeton University Art Museum
  • Seleucia Pieria, near Antakya
  • 526 cm x 527 cm
  • Figural Scene: 229.2 cm x 295.5 cm ​

Mosaic floor showing Eros and Psyche and geometric panel; Room 2a

  • 3rd century
  • Antakya Archaeology Museum, Turkey
  • Seleucia Pieria, near Antakya

Excavation view of Mosaic floor showing Eros and Psyche and geometric panels; Room 2a

Mosaic panel with geometric pattern; Room 2a, Panel A

Mosaic showing Eros and Psyche; Room 2a, Panel B

Mosaic panel with geometric pattern; Room 2a, Panel C

The Four Seasons Personified; Room 2b

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  • 3rd century
  • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
  • Seleucia Pieria, near Antakya
  • 177.8 cm x 518.16 cm

Spring (with a basket of flowers)

Summer (with a sheaf of wheat)

Autumn (with a basket for fruit)

Figure: Winter (cloaked, with a tray of fruit)

Fragment of floor mosaic depicting geometric design; Room 2b

  • 3rd century
  • Baltimore Museum of Art
  • Seleucia Pieria, near Antakya
  • 176.5 cm x 1.258 cm

Marine Mosaic with two side panels, Erotes riding dolphins; Room 3

  • 3rd century
  • MFA Boston
  • Seleucia Pieria, near Antakya
  • 291.5 cm x 287 cm

Mosaic panel depicting 4 pointed stars; Room 4

  • 3rd century
  • Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, FL
  • Seleucia Pieria, near Antakya
  • 207 cm x 106.1 cm

Geometric mosaic; Room 5

  • 3rd century
  • Denver Art Museum
  • Seleucia Pieria, near Antakya
  • 310.1 cm x 157 cm