Posted on 9/20/2005, 3:00:53 AM by Cecily
CAESAREA, Israel - Israeli archaeologists unveiled a Byzantine mosaic that had been buried under sand dunes for 50 years, along with a newly discovered, highly rare table dating from the same era.
The so-called mosaic "carpet" measuring 16 metres (53 feet) by 14.5 metres (48 feet), was uncovered in the Israeli coastal resort of Ceasarea and has been dated by archaeologists to the fifth and sixth centuries.
Bordered by a freize of running animals, including lions, panthers, wild boards, antelope, elephant, dog and bull, interspersed with fruit trees, remains of the floor were first found during military exercises in 1950.
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Journalists work at the site of an uncovered remains of a Byzantine mansion with pictorial mosaic carpet measuring 16x14.5m that had been buried under sand dunes for the past 50 years in the Israeli port city of Caesarea. According to the excavation's director, Dr. Y. Porat, the mansion probably belonged to a most important personage in the city of Caesarea, and perhaps in the entire province of Palestine Primae.(AFP/Eitan Abramovich)
Those "wild boards" can be ferocious.
Nice work. What was the material used ya reckon?
lots and lots of small colored tiles
Yes,
The froggys need a little more English spell-check work over there at Agence-France Press:
Quote:Bordered by a freize of running animals, including lions, panthers, wild boards ( sic), antelope, elephant, dog and bull,................Unquote.
I have shot several wild boards, and they always seem to have French Tatoos on their nether regions. Go figure!
Les Francaise aiment des couchons grandes!
Agence-France Press must be a splinter group or perhaps a chip off the auld Gaulist block?
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Meanwhile, Palestinians are turning Gaza into rubble.
Ceasarea was the home of King Herod. It eventually became a key Crusader castle. Lots of history there.
What a find! I hope they can preserve it as it is beautiful.
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