Fragment of a floor mosaic depicting a leopard and a goat
5th century
Physical Qualities
Stone and lime mortar, 49 1/2 x 99 in. (125.7 x 251.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Antioch Subscription Fund
Object Number
1937.121
These two mosaic fragments belong to the same Animal Friendship pavement as the "Lion and the Humped Ox" and the "Tigress and Boar" located in the Schafer court.
The fierce, spotted leopard above with clearly defined claws lowers his head as he confronts a shaggy-haired goat on the opposite side of the tree. The stag appears surprisingly serene in the face of the lioness's aggression. Unfortunately, the companion of the Bear has been lost. The large size of this fragment allows us to discover several birds in the treetops.
The Baltimore Museum of Art and Walters Art Gallery, "Early Christian and Byzantine Art", 1947, no. 666-c, pl. LXXXII.
C. R. Morey, "Museum Quarterly II," BMA, 1937-1938, no. 4, p. 4.
Richard Stillwell, "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, pl. XXIII.
Doro Levi, "Antioch Mosaic Pavements," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947, vol. I, 317, vol. II, pl. LXXII-c.
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
