400-500 Late Roman / Early Byzantine wall hanging
“A male attendant with blonde long locks stands in a doorway or arcade. He wears a yellow tunic decorated with purple panels (segmenta) and shorter clavii, jeweled belt, green leggings and orange shoes. He holds a ladle and a bowl filled with red wine and resembles servants represented on several floor mosaics in North African. There are roses strewn about the figure and floral garlands in orange and red decorate the columns.”
See also:
The Waiting-Servant Motif in a Late Antique Textile in Chicago: Iconography, Visuality, and Materiality
by Katharine A. Raff https://www.mdpi.com
Wall painting dated 5th – 6th century, from Khotan, modern Xinjiang, China
“Hanging on the wall at the Institute for Advanced Study are four late antique mosaics from the environs of Antioch, the capital of the Roman province of Syria and one of the largest cities in the Roman Empire.”
Late Roman Mosaics at the Institute for Advanced Study [Princeton, New Jersey, USA]
By Kathleen Mary Coleman · Published 2018
https://www.ias.edu/ideas/coleman-mosaics
“Hanging on the wall at the Institute for Advanced Study are four late antique mosaics from the environs of Antioch, the capital of the Roman province of Syria and one of the largest cities in the Roman Empire.”
Late Roman Mosaics at the Institute for Advanced Study [Princeton, New Jersey, USA]
By Kathleen Mary Coleman · Published 2018
https://www.ias.edu/ideas/coleman-mosaics