Scholar
Ilona Julia Jesnick
fl. 1989–1997
Scholar, active 1989–1997.
Life and work
- 1990Her paper 'The Mannerist depiction in Orpheus Mosaics', cited in the catalogue entry for Paphos as forthcoming in the Acts of the VIth International Colloquium on Ancient Mosaic, Palencia-Merida, 1990.
- 1997Published The Image of Orpheus in Roman Mosaic (Oxford 1997), whose catalogue includes no. 68, the Orpheus mosaic from the House of Orpheus at Nea Paphos (Type IIa, rock seat, Phrygian bonnet, cithara, recumbent fox and sitting boar, associated panels of Hercules and the Nemean Lion and an Amazon with her horse, dated 220-30 AD) and no. 69, the lost Salamis Orpheus mosaic, drawing on Nicolaou, Michaelides and ARDA/BCH reports.
Nea PaphosJesnick 1997Rogge et al. 2019
Connections
2 peopleScholarship
- Published material of Demetrios Michaelides1997
- Published material of Kyriakos Nicolaou1997
Sources
- 1.Ilona Julia Jesnick (1997). The Image of Orpheus in Roman Mosaic: An exploration of the figure of Orpheus in Graeco-Roman art and culture with special reference to its Christian context. Oxford, British Archaeological Reports.
- 2.S. Rogge (ed.), Ch. Ioannou (ed.), Th. Mavrojannis (ed.) (2019). Salamis of Cyprus: History and Archaeology from the Earliest Times to Late Antiquity. Münster, Waxmann.