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Border fragment of floor mosaic depicting geometric patterns

Border fragment of floor mosaic depicting geometric patterns

5th century

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Border fragment of floor mosaic depicting geometric patterns

Border fragment of floor mosaic depicting geometric patterns

Border fragment of floor mosaic depicting geometric patterns

5th century

Physical Qualities Stone and lime mortar, 44 1/2 x 74 1/2 in. (113 x 189.2 cm.)

Credit Line Antioch Subscription Fund

Object Number 1937.132

This panel, which combines favorite motifs such as the meander, twisted ribbon, rope, and rainbow, is a fragment of the border that surrounded the Animal Friendship pavement.

The Baltimore Museum of Art and Walters Art Gallery, "Early Christian and Byzantine Art", 1947, no. 666.

C. R. Morey, Museum Quarterly II, BMA, 1937-1938, no. 4, p. 4.

"Antioch-on-the Orontes, II, The Excavations, 1932-1936," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938, no. 44, p. 182, pl. 31.

C.R. Morey, "The Mosaics of Antioch," Longmans, Green & Co., 1938, pp. 42, pl. XXII

Doro Levi, "Antioch Mosaic Pavements," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947, vol. I, p. 317, vol. II, pl. CXXX-c.

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