Decoration items
Displaying 1 - 9 of 9
| Item number | Mosaic floor | Wall mosaics | Opus sectile | Fresco | Stucco | Relief | Materials, palette | Density | Composition | Geometric patterns | Iconographical motives | Floral motives | Comments | Discussion | Inscriptions |
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| 1 | Mosaic floor | White | White pavement with an inscription in an incomplete tabula ansata. | Inscriptions | |||||||||||
| 2 | Mosaic floor | Red, black and white | 36 cubes in 10X10 cm. (ovadiah and Ovadiah) 58 cubes in 10X10 cm.(Madden) | Preserved only in the southern end and north w-west corner. Border of a plain strip and alternating interlacing circles and squares. Field of banded squares with diamonds in the center. Some sections have repairs of larger white tesserae. | Avi-Yonah A1, Avi-Yonah J2, Avi-Yonah D | ||||||||||
| 3 | Mosaic floor | Black, pink, white, yellow and various shades of red. | 60 cubes in 10X10 cm. | Only patches are preserved. The west end has a field is a reticulate pattern with diamonds in the centre. The eastern end has a border of diamonds and two-strand guilloche. The field of scale pattern (imbrication) with florets. | Avi-Yonah D, Avi-Yonah B2, Avi-Yonah H1, Avi-Yonah J3, Avi-Yonah F | ||||||||||
| 4 | Mosaic floor | Black, white, shades of grey, red and yellow. | 100 in 10X10 cm. | Border of two strand guilloche. Field of scale pattern (imbrication) with florets. | Avi-Yonah B2, Avi-Yonah J3, Avi-Yonah F | ||||||||||
| 5 | Mosaic floor | Black, grey, yellow, white and various shades of red. | 100 cubes in 10X10 cm. | The southern area is preserved. the border is a composite guilloche. The field is a scale pattern (imbrication) with florets | Avi-Yonah B12, Avi-Yonah J3, Avi-Yonah F | ||||||||||
| 6 | Mosaic floor | Black, grey (grey-pink according to Madden), white and various shades of red. | 80 cubes in 10X10 cm. | The border is scattered diamonds/ lozenges and meanders. The field is crosslets of florets. In the eastern part is a Greek inscription. | Avi-Yonah D, Avi-Yonah A19, Avi-Yonah E | Ovadiah and Ovadiah state that the D motif is used in the mosaic while Madden states motif E. | |||||||||
| 7 | Mosaic floor | Black, white, grey-pink and various shades of red. | 64 cubes in 10X10 cm. (Ovadiah and Ovadiah) 80 cubes in 10X10 cm. (Madden) | The border is scattaered diamonds/lozenges, plain strip, two-strand guilloche. The field is squared lattice with Greek crosses at the intersections. In the foreground is a fragmentary inscription. | Avi-Yonah A1, Avi-Yonah B2, Avi-Yonah D, Avi-Yonah E, Greek cross | Ovadiah and Ovadiah state that the D motif is used in the mosaic while Madden states motif E | Inscriptions | ||||||||
| 8 | Mosaic floor | Black, white and and various shades of red. | 64 cubes in 10X10 cm. | Divided into two panels. The western panel has a border of scattered diamonds/lozenges, two strand guilloche, denticulated triangles. and the field is not preserved. The eastern panel has a field of reticulate pattern. | Avi-Yonah D, Avi-Yonah E, Avi-Yonah B2, Avi-Yonah A5, Avi-Yonah A6, Avi-Yonah H1 | Ovadiah and Ovadiah state that the D motif is used in the mosaic while Madden states motif E | |||||||||
| 9 | Mosaic floor | 100 cubes in 10X10 cm. | A border of scattered diamonds/lozenges and pattern of composite guilloche. In the east end of the south apse is a fragmentary inscription. The field is scale pattern (imbrication) with florets. Bwteewn the border and northern wall there is a vine-trellis with leaves. | Avi-Yonah D, Avi-Yonah E, Avi-Yonah B12, Avi-Yonah J3, Avi-Yonah F | vine, leaves | Ovadiah and Ovadiah state that the D motif is used in the mosaic while Madden states motif E | Inscriptions |