Mosaic Floor from south aisle of church of Bishop Paul, i.e. Procopius Church

ca. A.D. 526

Medium: Mosaic: limestone tesserae
Dimensions: approximate: 160 × 312 in. (406.4 × 792.48 cm)
Credit Line: The Yale-British School Excavations at Gerasa
Accession Number: 1929.418
Geography: Excavated in Gerasa, Jordan
Culture: Gerasa (Jordan)
Period: Early Christian
Classification: Mosaic
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Provenance

Excavated by the Yale-British School Excavations at Gerasa (Church of Bishop Paul [Procopius Church], south aisle, east end), present-day Jordan, 1928–34; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery of Empire (Chestnut Hill, Mass.: McMullen Museum of Art, 2014), 223, 239, no. 4, pl. 4, fig. 15.2

Iain Browning, Jerash and the Decapolis (London: Chatto and Windus, 1982), 209–211

Professor Paul V. C. Baur, Gerasa: City of the Decapolis, ed. Carl H. Kraeling (New Haven, Conn.: American Schools of Oriental Research, 1938), 339–40, pl.83a-b

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

floors, tesserae (mosaic components)

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