Mosaïques de pavement de la "maison de Leukaktios" à Ptolémaïs en Cyrénaïque (Libye). Essai d'identification des pièces

This paper deals with the house of Leukaktios, which has been discovered during Polish excavations at Ptolemais, Libya, in 2001-2007. The house has almost completely preserved its mosaic pavements and the plan of Graeco-Roman type with an open central court (atrium), acting as the focal point around which the rooms were arranged. The name of one of the last owners, Leukaktios, is written twice on the mosaics in the atrium and in the triclinium. The author proposes the identification of several rooms. Room I, a triclinium, has a mosaic with the characteristic U-shaped geometric frame around a central figural panel that depicts a personification of Victory or Nike. Room 14 is likely to have been an andrôn/triclinium. Room 9 could be interpreted as a gyneceum. The central panel which represents Dionysos and sleeping Ariadne has a parallel in the House of Dionysos in Cyrene, where the mosaic bears a rare Greek inscription dedicated to a woman. Room 4 was probably a reception hall. The mosaics are homogeneous in style and belong to the last phase of the building between AD 215 and 225. (D'après le résumé de la revue)