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Fresco Map, after Dionysius, fragment of a map from the Great Hall. c. 1240 BCE. Dressed fieldstone, lime fresco and coarse grout, 122 x 88.9 cm (48 x 35"). Courtesy of the Appleton Arts & Antiquities Museum, Florida.
This fresco map from the Great Hall exhibits a striking resemblance to the maps drawn by the Ancient Greek cartographer Dionysius in 124 BCE. What appears to be extra continents may have been simple conjecture by Dionysius as the island of Atlantis has also been added. Detailed marginalia of contorted and mythical animals and plants are interspersed. Various holy sites, such as Rome, Alexandria, Constantinople, Jerusalem and Baghdad are annotated, as well as the lands of Europe, Asia, Persia, Libya, Thule, Adumbrata, Antipodes and Antichthones and others. [2006, Mixed Media & Polychrome]
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