Fig. 1. Orpheus taming wild animals. Mosaic decorating the tomb of Papa,
with Syriac inscription dated 194, and reflecting Greco-Roman culture of the
Edessa area under the Abgarids. Dallas Museum of Art. Photo: John F. Healey. See
J. F. Healey. ‘A new Syriac mosaic inscription’, JSS 51 (2006), 313–27
as well as
U. Possekel, ‘Orpheus
among the animals. A new dated mosaic from Osrhoene’, OC 92 (2008), 1–35
. See entries:
Abgarids of Edessa,
Art and architecture,
Edessa, and
Old Syriac documents.