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Mosaic pavement depicting birds within a rinceau motif,
ca. 526–540 CE
Roman
Early Byzantine, ca. 330–842
y1965-227
Information
Title
Mosaic pavement depicting birds within a rinceau motif
Dates
ca. 526–540 CE
Medium
Stone
Dimensions
h. 113.5 cm., w. 206.3 cm., d. 10.0 cm. (44 11/16 x 81 1/4 x 3 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch to Princeton University
Object Number
y1965-227
Place Made
Turkey, Antakya
Place Excavated
Asia, Turkey, Antakya, Daphne Harbie
Culture
Excavated by the Princeton-led team at Antioch-on-the-Orontes, present-day Antakya, Turkey, 1931-1939; with the Museum since 1939
Mosaic: birds in rinceau
- Donald N. Wilber, Antioch-on-the-Orontes II: the excavations 1933 –1936, ed., Richard Stillwell, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press; The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1938)., cat. no. 87; p. 197ff; pl. 68
- Doro Levi, Antioch mosaic pavements, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1947). , p. 204ff., pl. XLVI,a
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Frances F. Jones, "Antioch mosaics in Princeton", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 40, no. 2 (1981): p. 2–26.
, p. 2–26 - F. Cimok, ed., Antioch mosaics: a corpus, (Istanbul: A Turizm Yayinlari, 1995)., p. 304-305
- Christine Kondoleon, Antioch: the lost ancient city, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000).
