ДУХОВНО И МАТЕРИЈАЛНО ЗНАЧЕЊЕ И АНАЛИЗА МОТИВА ТРИЈУ РИБâ СА ЗАЈЕДНИЧКОМ ГЛАВОМ НА ФРАГМЕНТУ КАСНОАНТИЧКОГ ПОДНОГ МОЗАИКА ИЗ ПЕТРОВЦА НА MОРУ
Spiritual and Material Meaning and the Analysis of the Motif of Three Fish with One Head from a Fragment of the Late Antique Floor Mosaic in Petrovac at Sea

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the iconography and meaning of the motif of three fish with one head, depicted on a small fragment of the floor mosaic (9 dm2) of an ancient villa, and found in 1902, in the olive yard of Marko Gregović in Petrovac at Sea. The paper concludes that the presence of this particular motif at the Montenegro Coast represents the continuation of a long-lasting iconographic tradition. The author concludes that in the case of Petrovac this motif has a Christian meaning, representing a symbolic image of the Holy Trinity – the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost and that the head represents the Creator, or the universal Cosmic knowledge on the way of the Creator. Considering the meaning of the motif of three fish with one head, the author expresses the opinion that the building in which the motif was present once served to the Christian cult, that its owner was a Christian and that the mosaic was done in the second half of the 4th century.

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