Fragment of a floor mosaic depicting a tigress and a boar
5th century
Physical Qualities
Stone and lime mortar, 55 x 106 1/2 in. (139.7 x 270.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Antioch Subscription Fund
Object Number
1937.120
This fragment belongs to the same Animal Friendship pavement as the Lion and Humped Ox seen nearby. The two fragments share the same "twisted ribbon" border. Note the dark shadows cast by the tigress's legs, and the various shades of gray and brown stone that suggest the tough texture of the boar's hide.
The Baltimore Museum of Art and Walters Art Gallery, "Early Christian and Byzantine Art", 1947, no. 666-b, pl. LXXXII.
"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-b.
C. R. Morey, Museum Quarterly II, BMA, 1937-1938, no. 4, p. 4.
"A Picture Book," Baltimore: BMA, 1955, ill. p. 12.
R. Stead, "Pavements from a Fabled City," "Pharos," Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, Fall/Winter 1964, pp. 5-8.
On View: Antioch Court
