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list of color plates
VI.18 Vine leaves and bunches of grapes on inhabited vine scroll mosaic pavements: Vine leaves:
a. Shellal; b. Petra; c. Ma#on synagogue; d. Be"er Shem#a; e. Jerusalem, ‘Armenian’
church; f. Beth She"an synagogue; g. Beth She"an Monastery, Room L; h. Beth Loya.
Bunches of grapes; i. Gaza synagogue; j. Shellal; k. Beth She"an Monastery, Room L;
l. Beth She"an synagogue; m. Shellal; n. Ma#on synagogue; o. Be"er Shem#a; p. Beth Loya;
q. Jerusalem, ‘Armenian’ church.
VI.19 a. Hen laying an egg, Ma#on; b. bird, Jerusalem ‘Armenian’ church.
VI.20 Subdued animals: a. Be"er Shem#a; b. Shellal; c. Petra. Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities
Authority, Petra. Courtesy of Prof. T. Waliszewski and the American Center of Oriental
Research, Amman.
VII.1 Vintager: a. Beth Shean Monastry, Room L; b. Sede Nahum; c. Lower Priest John;
d. lower Kaianus, #Uyun Musa, Mt. Nebo; e. Holy Martyrs Lot and Procopius, Mukhayyat,
Mt. Nebo; f. Deacon Thomas, #Uyun Musa, Mt. Nebo. Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities
Authority (a, b). Courtesy of Fr. Michele Piccirillo and Studium Biblicum Franciscanum
Archive, Jerusalem (c-f ).
VII.2 Transporting grapes: a. El Hammam, Beth She"an; b. Be"er Shem#a; c. Beth She"an Monastry,
Room L; d. Lower Kaianus, #Uyun Musa, Mt. Nebo; e. Lower Chapel of the Priest
John, Mukhayyat, Mt. Nebo; f. Holy Martyrs Lot and Procopius, Mukhayyat, Mt. Nebo;
g. Suwayfiyah; h. Deacon Thomas, #Uyun Musa, Mt. Nebo. Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities
Authority (a-c). Courtesy of Fr. Michele Piccirillo and Studium Biblicum Franciscanum
Archive, Jerusalem (d-h).
VII.3 Treading grapes and the press: a. El Hammam, Beth She"an; b. Beth She"an Monastry,
Room L; c. Holy Martyrs Lot and Procopius, Mukhayyat, Mt. Nebo; d. St. George,
Mukhayyat, Mt. Nebo; e. Qabr Hiram. Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority (a-b).
Courtesy of Fr. Michele Piccirillo and Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Archive, Jerusalem
(c-d).
VII.4 Flute player: a. Beth She"an Monastry, Room L; b. Be"er Shema; c. Caesarea; d. El Hammam,
Beth She"an; e. Nahariya. Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
VII.5 Animal chase scenes: a. Three animal chase scenes, Gaza synagogue; b. two animal chase
episodes, Be"er Shem#a; c. A lion chasing a gazelle and an ibex, Jabaliyah diakonikon.
Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority (a-b). Courtesy of Fr. Jean-Baptiste Humbert
and Ecole biblique/Revue biblique (c).
VII.6 Snake and mongoose confrontation: a. Be"er Shem#a; b. Sede Nahum; c. Orpheus mosaic,
Jerusalem; d. Qabr Hiram; e. Zaharani I; f. Haouarte south aisle of North church
(‘Michaelion’). Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority (a-c). (d-f; after Donceel
Voûte 1988: figs. 73, 80).
VII.7 Kissufim, upper part panels of the northern aisle. Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities
Authority.
VII.8 Dog chasing hare/rabbit on church mosaics: a. Shellal; b. Kissufim; c. Be"er Shem#a, two
episodes; d. Khirbet el-Wazia; e. Martyr church, Beth She"an. Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities
Authority.
VII.9 Animal assault scenes: a. Sepphoris, Nile Festival Building; b. Kissufim church; c. Sepphoris,
Nile Festival Building, three episodes. Courtesy of Prof. Z. Weiss and the Sepphoris
Expedition, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; photo by G. Laron (a, c). Courtesy of the
Israel Antiquities Authority (b).
VII.10 Jabaliyah Diakonikon mosaic pavements: a. nave; b. panel. Courtesy of Fr. Jean-Baptiste
Humbert and Ecole biblique/Revue biblique.
VII.11 Hunter on foot with spear or a lance combating a beast: a. Tiberias, Mt. Berenice church
upper mosaic; b. el- Maqerqesh, Beth Guvrin; c. Chapel of the Martyr Theodore,
Cathedral, Madaba; d. el Hammam, Beth She"an, two scenes; e. Old Diakonikon lower
mosaic, Siyaga. Memorial of Moses, Mt. Nebo; f. Deacon Thomas, #Uyun Musa,