Fragment of a floor mosaic depiciting a lioness, a stag, and a bear
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Physical Qualities
Stone and lime mortar, 82 x 129-1/2 in. (208.4 x 329 cm.); weight: 3672 lbs.
Credit Line
Antioch Subscription Fund
Object Number
1937.122
From the 'Animal Friendship' pavement. Fourth and part of a fifth section of a vertibule pavement in five sections, depicting five pairs of animals - a wild beast and its prey. The fourth section depicts a lioness and staf, part of the fifth section depicts a bear but the second animal is lost with the missing end of the pavement.
The Baltimore Museum of Art and Walters Art Gallery, "Early Christian and Byzantine Art", 1947, no. 666-d, pl. LXXXII.
C. R. Morey, "Museum Quarterly II," BMA, 1937-1938, no. 4, p. 4.
Richard Stillwell, ed., "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, p. 42.
Doro Levi, "Antioch Mosaic Pavements," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947, vol. I, 317, vol. II, pl. LXXII-d.
R. Stead, "Pavements from a Fabled City," "Pharos," Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, Fall/Winter 1964, pp. 5-8.
On View: Cone Wing, Stairway
