AMPHIPOLIS: Third Figure On Mosaic Yet To Be Revealed!

Commenting on the impressive mosaic that was unearthed in Amphipolis at the weekend, Lina Mendoni, the General Secretary of the Ministry of Culture, told SKAI on Tuesday morning that there are quite a few indications that there is a third figure in the impressive mosaic that was recently uncovered in the Amphipolis tomb.

She said that the mosaic is still covered in dirt on two sides where support structures have been placed to assist in the archaeological efforts and opined that other figures may be hidden under those dirt-covered areas.

Mendoni stressed that the mosaic proves the argument that the tomb was constructed in the last quarter of the 4th century BC.

She also announced that it has yet to be determined whether then next chamber is the last (in other words, there could be even more chambers).

The mosaic covers the entire floor, which is a room believed to be the antechamber to the main burial ground. It measures 3 meters long and 4.5 meters wide, and depicts a horseman with a laurel wreath driving a chariot drawn by two horses and preceded by the god Hermes. In this work of art, Hermes is depicted as the conductor of souls to the afterlife.

The mosaic is made up of pebbles in several colors: white, black, grey, blue, red and yellow. A circular part, near the center of the mosaic, is missing, but authorities say enough fragments have been found to reconstruct most of it.