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Fragment of floor mosaic depicting geometric designs

Fragment of floor mosaic depicting geometric designs

201-300

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Fragment of floor mosaic depicting geometric designs

Fragment of floor mosaic depicting geometric designs

Fragment of floor mosaic depicting geometric designs

201-300

Physical Qualities Stone, lime mortar, 75 x 37 in. (190.5 x 94 cm.)
Credit Line Antioch Subscription Fund
Object Number 1937.131
Inside a large diamond-shaped lozenge, squares viewed in three dimensions fit neatly inside a three-dimensional meander pattern. Laurel leaves fill the corner spaces outside the lozenge.
"Antioch-on-the Orontes, II, The Excavations, 1932-1936," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938, no. 46, p. 183, pl. 35d.
Doro Levi, "Antioch Mosaic Pavements," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947, p. 167-169, pl. XXXVa-.
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