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Fragment of floor mosaic depicting birds and crops

Fragment of floor mosaic depicting birds and crops

401-500

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Fragment of floor mosaic depicting birds and crops

Fragment of floor mosaic depicting birds and crops

Fragment of floor mosaic depicting birds and crops

401-500

Physical Qualities Stone and lime mortar, 103 x 179 in. (261.7 x 454.8 cm.); weight: 6369.75 lbs.
Credit Line Antioch Subscription Fund
Object Number 1937.136
This is part of the Striding Lion mosaic. The floral border is made by bringing four heart-shaped leaves together at a point. The wide border surrounded the entire pavement.
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. 62, p. 189, pl. 47.
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, pp. 321-322, fig. 135, vol. II, pl. LXXIV-a.
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