Four Seasons

By N.S. Gill, About.com Guide

This personification of Summer shows a female with wheat sheaves on her head. It is part of a Spanish mosaic of the seasons and Medusa. The mosaic is limestone from the end of the 2nd century A.D., now at the National Archaeological Museum of Spain, in Madrid.

According to "Two Mosaics from Roman Tunisia: An African Variation of the Season Theme," by David Parrish; American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 83, No. 3 (Jul., 1979), pp. 279-285, mosaics are the second most popular places where the Romans depicted the seasons -- the first being sarcophagi.

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