K. Palágyi Sylvia szerk.: Balácai Közlemények 2008/10. (Veszprém, 2008)
KIRCHHOF, ANITA: The decorative system and reconstruction of the red dining room at Baláca - A balácai vörös ebédlő dekorációs rendszere és rekonstrukciója
a serpent, or having an waving body and dolphin-like tails were also the favourite topics of the mosaics in the baths. Their elongated forms appear in the picture fields alternating with dolphins or among dolphins, sometimes Nereids ride on them. 141 They occur also on stone monuments. 142 The dolphins and the fantastic animal and human (Tritons) creatures belonged to the aquatic procession, triumphus, of Poseidon/Neptunus 143 and often they had been broken away from their environment to put them on stucco ledges where they appeared alternating with dolphins or accompanied by dolphins and not only in a painted but also in stamped form, 144 either on pedestals or in the horizontal picture field between the pedestal and the main picture field (in the predella), both on mosics or on ceilings. 145 On the frieze below the painted stucco row of a buliding excavated in the canabae at Brigetio the representation of a marine process against a black background could be reconstructed. 146 Mosaic with dolphin is known from Pannónia also from the Palace of the Proconsul at Aquincum} 41 Within the medallion of a mosaic found in Sousse, North Africa, Oceanus was represented while within each of the four fields around it a wind-personification stands for the four points of the compass. 148 Within the middle picture field of a mosaic from Dougga we find Nereids, also wind-personifications in the four corners, while in the border field of the mosaic water-fowls alternate with marsh-plants. 149 On the so-called Retor mosaic from Trier there is also a windpersonification, which can be identfied on the basis of the small wings at two sides of the head and also of the shock of hair. 150 Scenes appearing on the friezes of wall-paintings or in the picture fields of the predella display historical, mythological, narrative events or events of everyday life. 151 In the colombarium of T. Statilius Taurus, excavated on the Esquiline, the foundation of Rome is depicted. 152 In Pompeii, in the house of Loreius Tiburtinus within the picture field over the pedestal there are Homeric scenes. 153 In the well-known House of Vettii in Pompeii the frieze represents scenes taken from everyday life, with small amors) 54 On the stucco frieze of a villa in Schwirzheim, below a series of scenes displaying everyday life - where the picture fields were separated from each other by trees - combined scenes with hypocampus, dolphin and shellfish can be seen. 155 In the villa at Girelles on a stucco frieze man-animal combat scene appears in a stamped form. 156 A representation of a red deer formed in similar manner and stamped into stucco is known from Autun. 157 From Vertillum stamped bird representations facing each other and are separated from each other supposedly by grape, are known. 158 On the top of the main zone of a wall-painting from Augst there are amors riding animals. 159 From Pannónia representations of animals running among trees, dolphins and hypocampus are known from Intercisa, 160 Aquincum lb] and Baláca. 162 Ab ovo ad mala The still life scenes and decorative system of the Red Dining Room On the still life scenes represented in the medallions of the Red Dining Room at Baláca we may recognize the well-known maxim of the Romans, the ab ovo (usque ad mala), "from the egg till the apple". 163 Though this maxim was used not only in connection of meals but also in relation of every aspect of life and its meaning was "from the beginning till the end". The
