Matchmaker from Greek comedy on a mosaic (2nd century B.C.)

Matchmaker from Greek comedy on a mosaic (2nd century B.C.)

Anonymous

2nd century B.C.

Scene from the comedy Synaristoi by Aristophanes or another comedy from the New Comedy in which there is a matchmaker, probably Philatinies and a hetaera and other characters. Banquet scene.

See more extant variants of this scene in 
http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2017/06/women-eating-lunch-together.html

Archived at 

https://web.archive.org/web/20190129220106/http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2017/06/women-eating-lunch-together.html

Dioscorides' Villa in Samos, currently in the Naples National Archaeological Museum.

Mosaic