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Location:

  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Episkopí
  • geo:34.66851,32.882427
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

  • Building (other)
  • visible

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Annotations

A luxurious private house where a fragment of a mosaic composition depicting the unmasking of Achilles has survived. The scene portrays Achilles meeting with Odysseus in Lykomedes' house on the Greek island of Skyros where Achilles, disguised as a girl, was sent by his mother to avoid his participation in the Trojan war.


Relevant museums

Cyprus Museum in Nicosia

Lefkosia. Archeological museum


Nearby

Kourion, House of Gladiators

Korion, House of Gladiators

Kourion, Roman baths

Kourion, Roman baths

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Nympheum at Public Baths


This object was added by Carole Raddato on 2016-01-31. Last update by René Voorburg on 2022-11-25. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/24751 . Download as RDF/XML, KML.
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