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100 church of Sts. Lot and Procopius at Khirbat al- Mukhayyat on Mount Nebo, the mosaic depicts a Nilotic scene divided among four of the panels; one shows a church representation flanked by a boatman and a fisherman, another portrays a river with fishes and ducks (Piccirillo 1993: 37, fig. 209). A fragmentary mosaic in the main hall of the chapel at Zay al-Gharby contains fish, a sailing boat with two damaged figures, and a crocodile, fishes, and birds on the Nile water; a small church is in the border (Piccirillo 1993: 37,324-325, figs. 660, 674, 676). On the central panel of the nave mosaic of the Byzantine church (or perhaps a house: see Maguire 1999: 183, note 34) at Umm al-Manabi only a sketch of the mosaic is preserved. Once it contained a walled city with the inscription ‘Egyptos’; of the personification of the Nile all that has survived are the Greek inscription ‘Nilos’, a Nilometer with marks from ten to eighteen, and stretches of water with a fish and a sailing boat (Glueck 1951: 229-230; Whitehouse 1979: 141-142, M47; Piccirillo 1993: 37, 341, Fig. 752; Hamarneh 1999: 186). Isolated Nilotic elements appear on some other mosaics of Jordan. In the church of St. John at Gerasa, two Nilotic scenes show of a river with fish swimming in it; ducks, storks, and herons move about and lotus flowers accompany the walled city (Piccirillo 1993: 34, fig 535). On the pavement of the church of the priest Wa"il, in the intercolumnar space on the north side a Nilotic scene appears consisting of two boats, fishes and plants (Piccirillo 1993: 243, Fig.398). The flowing Nile stream with seven fishes and walled cities are portrayed on the Madaba map (Avi-Yonah 1954: 21-23,25; Piccirillo 1993: 30-34). On the mosaic pavement of the 8th-century St. Stephen church at Umm al-Rasas, the border frame renders Nilotic landscape with cities, boats, fishes and plants (Piccirillo 1993: 35-37, figs. 345, 358). Some of these pavements suffered deliberate iconoclastic damage; most were crudely repaired (Schick 1995: 189-195,217). On an outer border of the 6th-century mosaic pavement at Sarrîn in Syria (Balty 1990: 60-68, chapter five Figure V-3. Sarrîn border mosaic. pls. XXXI-XXXIII, XXXV,3: general plan) a Nilotic scene appears in the border mosaic containing most of the elements (fig. V-3): a halfnaked Nilus reclines on a wagon drawn by a pair of hippopotami with a naked putto riding one of them; another putto rides a crocodile; on a Nilometer a putto engraves the numbers IH and IZ; close by is a depiction of a walled city, perhaps Alexandria. An interesting scene with most of the Nilotic elements appears on a central panel mosaic at Jiyé (Phoenicia, Lebanon) dated to the second half of the 5th or early 6th century (Ortali-Tarazi and Waliszewski 2000). The panel is divided into two levels by two base lines: the upper level shows the half-naked bearded figure of Nilus. Nilotic plants, an eagle, and another bird flank him. The lower level renders in the centre a boat with two seated rowing figures; under it is a crocodile nibbling at a Nilotic plant; to the left is a fish and another Nilotic plant. The border of the mosaic is depicted with Nilotic plants, fishes, birds, a snake, and a crocodile. Nilotic motifs consisting of plants, birds, and fishes also appear on some mosaic pavements in Syria: on a floor of the House of Ge and the Seasons in Antioch, and on church floors at Apamea, Oumnir, Qoumnahan, and Tell Hauwash (Balty 1984: 830, table on p. 831, figs. CXXX,5; CXXXII,1-2; CXXXIII,1,4,5), and Sorân (Donceel-Voûte 1988: figs. 295,297,298). Nilotic scenes appear on two currently discovered pavements in Syria (Zaqzuq 1995: 237-140, pls. 1, 19; Hamarneh 1999: 188: Campanati 1999: 173, fig. on p. 175): the cathedral of Hama (412 CE) has a Nilotic scene in its south passage depicting water with fishes, plants, a boat with amphorae, and birds quite similar to the Tabgha birds. The presbytery pavement of the Church of the Holy Martyrs at Tayibat al-Imam (Hamah district, dated to 442 CE,) shows another unusual Nilotic scene: a river with fishes and Nilotic birds, apparently created by the four rivers of Paradise and identified by an inscription; it flows down from the mountain of Paradise on whose top is an
I.1 Masada mosaic pavements: a. anteroom (Oecus 456) at the Western Palace; b. bathhouse corridor of the Western Palace (room 449).
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294 glossary
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Ψ ή φ ο ς ס פ י ס פ Ancie
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contents To my beloved granddaughte
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contents CONTENTS List of Color Pla
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contents C Pastoral and Rural Scene
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list of color plates xi LIST OF COL
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list of color plates xiii V.4 Nilom
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list of color plates xv Mt. Nebo; g
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list of color plates xvii Authority
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list of figures xix LIST OF FIGURES
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list of figures xxi Figure IV-15. D
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list of figures xxiii Figure VIII-5
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list of figures xxv LIST OF TABLES
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foreword xxvii FOREWORD התדיב
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One of the most significant and fru
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pavement at Caesarea the word is sp
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mosaic pavements adorning buildings
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Introduction: Jewish Figurative Art
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Figure II-3. Beth "Alpha synagogue:
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to the Sefer HaRazim Yahoweh reside
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ut all served as repositories for t
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pomegranates and cups (Hachlili 200
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open ark with scrolls is depicted,
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are rendered in non-identical symme
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pavements of Samarian synagogues an
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of two columns surmounting an arche
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A group of ancient synagogues disco
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the zodiac panel and its significan
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the bust of the season Nisan (Sprin
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The Summer attributes, the sickle a
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Figure VI-7. Group II: Jerusalem, t
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the outer ones; the second survivin
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Table VI-1a. Composition and Repert
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Group III consists of the mosaics e
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the ‘inhabited scrolls’ mosaic
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Figure VI-13. Beth She"an, Monaster
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Figure VI-15. Sede Nahum mosaic fra
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Table VI-2a. (Cont.) Mosaic Date ce
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Table VI-2b. (Cont.) Mosaic Date ce
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In the south aisle of St. George ch
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four amphorae in the centre of the
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On Jordanian mosaics, in the acanth
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to have grapes of both styles (pl.
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ightly observes that the different
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grape harvesting, pastoral, and hun
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Rural activities and pastoral scene
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Table VII.1. Vintage scenes on vine
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Figures Treading Grapes and the Pre
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The forerunners for these vintage s
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Snake and Mongoose Confrontation Th
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Table VII.2. Animal chase and comba
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iconographic aspects of rural life
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scenes are found in the mid-5th- to
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Table VII.3. Big Game Hunting scene
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likewise surround the basin of the
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the cathedral at Madaba (Piccirillo
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443, 455-6, 466) holds that this ty
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Personification is a common theme o
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Rivers of Paradise, but only two of
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irds, apparently created by the Fou
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in an intercolumnar space (Church o
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the seasons with deliberate differe
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personification of natural forces 1
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crook Spring’s attribute at the B
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personification of natural forces 1
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while in mosaics of the Greek East
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Moon, as the partner of Sun, is a b
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Animals in a repeated antithetic sy
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designs of symmetrical antithetic a
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(Ovadiah 1987: 105) and at the Naha
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a bear, a lion and a destroyed anim
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long-horned deer drinking from a sp
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iconoclasm on mosaic pavements of s
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A significant subject in ancient ar
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These compositions with division in
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frequent ornamentation of the synag
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(Ovadiah 1987: 68): A cross within
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Some scholars propose that depictio
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V.5 City representations: a. Beth L
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V.7 The sail boat: a. Beth Leontis,
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VI.1 Gaza synagogue pavement.
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VI.3 Jerusalem ‘Armenian’ churc
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VI.6-8 Petra Church: North Aisle mo
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VI.8
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VI.10 The church of the Deacon Thom
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VI.12 Amphorae depicted on inhabite
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VI.14 Bird of prey on inhabited vin
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VI.16 Baskets on inhabited vine scr
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VI.18 Vine leaves and bunches of gr
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VI.20 Subdued animals: a. Be’er S
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VII.2 Transporting grapes: a. El Ha
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VII.4 Flute player: a. Beth She’a
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VII.6 Snake and mongoose confrontat
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VII.8 Dog chasing hare/rabbit on ch
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Inhabited Vine Scrolls Pavements A
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similar in the general depiction of
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etween synagogue and church 233 Fig
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part are evidently connected: almos
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etween synagogue and church 237 Fig
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Mukhayyat (Bagatti 1949: 99, pl. 29
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time. They might have contained gen
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Artists, workshops and schools of m
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• The same artisans are mentioned
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1933: 146, No. 23, 8; 1934: 73 =198
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characteristically mixed origin of
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The Sepphoris Mosaicists The Seppho
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on horseback spearing a leopard wit
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Odysseus fighting the monster Scyll
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Figure XII-6. Hall A mosaic, Monast
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mosaicists, workshops, and the repe
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Dating The Monastery was dated by i
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connections with Egypt, and perhaps
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different themes based on comparabl
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esults were mosaics in the old Diak
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Jews toartists and craftsmen. Among
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epeated use was supplemented by fre
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of designs from general pattern boo
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concluding remarks, comments, and o
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list of sites 289 LIST OF SITES Sit
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Site Date Centuries CE Jordan (Arab
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VII.10 Jabaliyah Diakonikon mosaic
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VII.12 Hunter/soldier on foot with
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VII.14 Feline with cub: a. Gaza syn
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VII.16 Shepherd: a. Be’er Shem‘
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VII.18 Figure leading camel: a. Kis
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VII.20 Fishing: a. Beth Loya, two e
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VIII.2 Seasons: a. Caesarea: Spring
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VIII.4 Beth She’an monastery, Hal
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IX.2 Flanking birds: a. Beth Shean,
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IX.4 a. Huseifa, unidentical menoro
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X.2 Susiya synagogue: a. panel Tora
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X.4 Jabaliyah church, north aisle.
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XI.2 Crosses on mosaic pavements: a
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XI.4 Tabgha, Church of the Multipli
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XII.2
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XII.4 Beth Leontis, Beth She’an:
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XII.6 Similarities between animals:
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XII.8 Similarities between animals
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glossary 293 GLOSSARY Aedicula Ston
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list of sites 295 ABBREVIATIONS ACR
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Abel, F. M. 1924 Décourvertes réc
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1969 Antike Mosaiken in Kilikien, I
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2001 The Nilometer, in Measuting an
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The Art of Byzantium and the Mediev
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1995 The Activity of the Mosaicists
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1971 The Secret of the ‘En Gedi I
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