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Fragment of floor mosaic depicting birds and crops

Fragment of floor mosaic depicting birds and crops

5th century

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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

5th century

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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