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Fragment of floor mosaic depicting a lion and a humped ox
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Fragment of floor mosaic depicting a lion and a humped ox

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Fragment of floor mosaic depicting a lion and a humped ox

401

Physical Qualities Stone, lime mortar, 89 x 100 in. (226.1 x 254.1 cm.)
Credit Line Antioch Subscription Fund
Object Number 1937.119
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1937 distribution; Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and Its Vicinity, 1936-1937 excavation from the hall of Philia at Daphne (present-day Harbiye, Türkiye); Syrian Department of Antiquities concession
The Baltimore Museum of Art and Walters Art Gallery, "Early Christian and Byzantine Art", 1947, no. 666-a, 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-a.
Museum Quarterly II, BMA, 1937-1938
R. Stead, "Pavements from a Fabled City," "Pharos," Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, Fall/Winter 1964, pp. 5-8.
K.R. Greenfield, "The Museum: Its First Half Century," "Annual I," BMA, 1966, ill. p. 28.

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