描述Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Dionysos Triumf mosaic 1921.jpg
English: The persons can be identified as their names are shown: Dionysos, Nike and a maenad. Dionysos stands on one of two panthers pulling a wagon with spoked wheels. He has a nimbus. In his right hand he holds a thyrsos. He wears a long tunic . Next to him stands Nike, who handles the panthers. To the right a maenad dances with a cymbal.
I have a large collection of pictures, some taken at the old museum, some of the same mosaics, but in the new museum. During my several visits (at least 6) almost each time light conditions had changed, and correcting for that is not always satisfactory, let alone getting the corrections the same for each picture of each mosaic. I disliked in particular how in the new museum led-spotlights were often used (a nasty development in many museums, not just in Turkey). I suppose they are efficient, but they give notable highlight spots that sometimes cannot be corrected for. I found they also vary in light temperature. Another annoyance is that in the new museum many mosaics are laid on a floor or a slightly raised platform, without offering a point of view from which to take a picture that, after maybe some perspective correction, looked natural. So in some cases I had to guess the amount of foreshortening that I had to correct.