Ḥorvat Beth Loya - Church - Nave

The central carpet features at its western end an amphora flanked by two peacocks, that are housed within two large grapevine madallions growing out of the central amphora. More grapevines growing from the same amphora form five columns of eleven smaller madallions in each (55 all together). Each medallion housed originally an animal or a bird (mainly destroyed and carefully repaired with the same tesserae in random order) or an object (wine goblet, double-handed vase, wine jar, fruit arrangement). In the central medallion of the easternmost row, there is a still intact image of two birds sipping water from a goblet. The grape vine is abundant with leaves and grape clusters, as well as smaller animals and birds in between. The central carper is surrounded by four concentric rectangular borders: B7-B8, acanthus rinceaux housing animals (now defaced), B7-B8 and a white margin embellished with a row of circles connected by a line. The strips of acanthus leaves containing various animals, disfigured, but many identifiable: elephant, deer, goat?, lion, ox, hunting dog and a rabbit (south); ox, antelope (east), horse, spotted leopard, rabbit, fox or wolf, snake, monkey (north). Two Greek inscription are placed in medallions at the centre of the framing acanthus border: "Azizos and Kyrikos..." at the Western (at the entrance to the nave), while "Offering of Azizos" at its Eastern end (close to the apse).