Mosaic

29-107-934

From: Israel | Beth Shean

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number 29-107-934
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Israel | Beth Shean
Archaeology Area Niche at the southwest of the ambulatory in the Byzantine Round Church on the summit; Level II
Section Near Eastern
Materials Stone
Description

Fragment of stone mosaic pavement. The tesserae are white, black, brown and red in a semi-circular group with an imbricated pattern. These is a plain border on two sides.

Fitzgerald: "Just south of the west door a semicircular fragment of mosaic with an imbricated pattern ran back beyond the line of the outer circle, showing that at this point there had been a niche in the wall, and there can be no doubt of the existence of a corresponding niche to the north. It will be observed that the wall behind these niches was very thin; they were presumbably built up inside concealed arches in the main wall."

Length 107.95 cm
Width 117.09 cm
Depth 5.08 cm
Credit Line Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1921-1928
Other Number ? - Field No SF

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