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The mosaic of Daedalus, Icarus, and Pasiphaë from Zeugma depicts the wife of King Minos of Crete Pasiphaë (ΦACIΦAH), an unidentified maiden, and her nanny Trophos (TPOΦOC) watching as Daedalus (ΔΕɅɅΟC) and his son Icarus (ΕIKAPOC) make a wooden effigy of a cow. Dated to the end of the 2nd century CE.
Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey.
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