Alcazar of Christian Monarchs, Cordoba

Traveler  The plaque on the side read: POLYPHEMUS AND GALATEA 2nd century AD 410cm x 510cm Romuta period mosaic found in 1959, in the basement of the Plaza de the Slider. It comes from a rich mansion with numerous mosaics whose schemes decorations are repeated in the set The motive of the pavement located in the trilines, is the love scene between Polyphemus and Galatea. The giant Polyphemus was one of the Cyclopes of Sicily, son of Pascidon (Neptuna) and known in mythology for devouring various companions of Ulysses that left him blind. He loved Galatea and killed her lover the shepherd Acis, crushing him with a rock The nymph Galatea, one of the ncrecids, appears naked, adorned with rich jewels. necklace, two bracelets and a bracelet. She covers her legs with a cloak and appears seated at back of a ketes, a sea monster with the head of a wolf, a serpentine body and the tail of a cetaces, habitual horse of the Nereids. The cyclops Polifemu wields like a cetru, a long pine from which hangs the reed, musical instrument. He appears naked, covering his thighs with a skin of leopard, his head is adorned with a beard and wavy hair and on his forehead the third garlic. The landscape is represented with great realism and schematization. The mosaicist has used a multitude of multicolored tesserae that give great chromaticism to the representation, using vitreous paste for the green and black tones. The scene is framed by a braided garland. On both sides, they have located two courses decorated with double meanders and surrounded by four dolphins in their corners. The theme of the mosaic is inspired by Hellenistic literature, in the poem by Philoxenus of Citerea "Phi Ciclope"

 Europe has been into recycling long before us !! [EE]

 Wonder of nature !! [EE]