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Fragment of floor mosaic depicting birds and crops

Fragment of floor mosaic depicting birds and crops

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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

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

(fragment from floor)

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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