Mosaics Hunting Scenes Djemila
Mosaic was very successful in the Roman Empire. It decorates the floors, but also the walls and vaults from the 1st century AD. BC and is found in homes as well as in public buildings.
It is made by pressing tesserae (cubic pieces made of various colored materials) into cement. The African mosaic school delivers polychrome pavements fragmented into panels designed to show several points of view.
Hunting scene – Djemila
This mosaic was discovered in a dining room in the 5th or 6th century.
It is made up of two scenes: in its upper part, a hunter gallops on horseback in front of an arcaded portico and indulges in the pleasures of hunting in the company of his servants.
Flanked by his dog, he has just wounded a wild boar surrounded by a deer and a lioness with his javelin.
The servant is holding a dead hare and a net which he used to capture it.
Behind the portico, we see a series of buildings which represent an urban setting.
In the lower register, two hunters confront wild animals. The first, surrounded by two lions, greets the audience with his right hand.
The second is kneeling: he has just killed a lion and pierces a second with his spear. A leopard circles around him.
The two hunters wear an identical tunic: white, short and rolled up on one leg. Their costume is decorated with a square plaque on the chest.
It is made by pressing tesserae (cubic pieces made of various colored materials) into cement. The African mosaic school delivers polychrome pavements fragmented into panels designed to show several points of view.
Hunting scene – Djemila
This mosaic was discovered in a dining room in the 5th or 6th century.
It is made up of two scenes: in its upper part, a hunter gallops on horseback in front of an arcaded portico and indulges in the pleasures of hunting in the company of his servants.
Flanked by his dog, he has just wounded a wild boar surrounded by a deer and a lioness with his javelin.
The servant is holding a dead hare and a net which he used to capture it.
Behind the portico, we see a series of buildings which represent an urban setting.
In the lower register, two hunters confront wild animals. The first, surrounded by two lions, greets the audience with his right hand.
The second is kneeling: he has just killed a lion and pierces a second with his spear. A leopard circles around him.
The two hunters wear an identical tunic: white, short and rolled up on one leg. Their costume is decorated with a square plaque on the chest.