CIRCA 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.

Leopards can be found on various mosaic scenes in both the Greek and Roman world, including Dionysiac, amphitheatre, hunting and general floral and fauna scenes and animal friezes. For Hellenistic examples see K. Dunbabin, Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World, Cambridge, 2012, p. 12, no. 10 and p. 24, no. 22. For a similar figure of a leopard standing on its own see Dunbabin, op. cit, p. 83, n. 83, where a striding spotted feline, with head lowered, decorates one of the medallions of a much larger scheme of a Dionysiac floor mosaic produced in a Roman Rhineland workshop, circa 220 A.D.