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Pour les articles homonymes, voir Zeugma. Zeugma est une cité antique située sur l'Euphrate, aujourd'hui en Turquie, près de la frontière syrienne au sud du pays, sur l'antique route de la soie, dans l'ancienne Commagène. Monnaie frappée dans la cité de Zeugma La cité fut fondée vers 300 av. J. En 64 av. En 256, Zeugma est prise et largement détruite par le roi sassanide Shapur I. La gitane de Zeugma au musée archéologique de Gaziantep La mise en eau du barrage commence en 2000. Sur les autres projets Wikimedia : Zeugma, sur Wikimedia Commons. Zeugma à l'époque romaine tardive. CatherineAbadie-Reynal Professeur d'Archéologie Toutes ces maisons de Zeugma paraissent avoir été détruites vers le milieu du IIIe s. ap.
Zeugma 16ter. ZEUGMA on Pinterest. THE ZEUGMA MOSAIC MUSEUM. Acheloos,_detail_of_roman_mosaic_from_Zeugma.jpg (JPEG Image, 500 × 335 pixels) Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Antep. The Zeugma Mosaic Museum opened in Antep in September 2011, giving the world famous mosaics collection a new and modern home.
When I visited its precursor in 2008, I was the only visitor in the small museum. It was just me, a few guards, and tens of millions of polychrome tesserae arranged in geometric and figurative patterns. Zeugma is the Roman name for Seleucia, a city founded during the reign of Hellenistic king Seleucus I in the 4th century BCE. It is at a strategic point on the Euphrates River and its location guaranteed its military and commercial importance until the 3rd century CE. Centuries of neglect, abandonment and debris deposit protected its luxurious bathing complexes and patrician villas. Even the simplest and most common geometric patters are mesmerising. Though let’s face it, mythological subjects with architectural perspective are pretty spectacular, too.
The second floor of the museum provides a birds eye view over the sprawling ground floor mosaics. Mosaics Revealed at Ancient Greek City of Zeugma in Turkey. Archaeologists discovered three unique mosaics at the Ancient Greek city of Zeugma, in south Turkey, near the borders of Syria.
The ancient city of Zeugma was originally founded as a Greek settlement by Seleucus I Nicator, one of the generals of Alexander the Great, in 300 BC. The population of the city at its peak was approximately 80,000 inhabitants. Zeugma is 80 percent underwater, after it was flooded with the waters of a nearby artificial lake. The mosaics, which were recovered in excellent condition, belong to the 2nd century B.C. The first mosaic depicts the nine Muses in portraits. The second mosaic depicts Ocean and Tithys. Another, smaller in size mosaic, depicting a young man was also revealed and in very good condition.