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150 in Jordan: at Khirbat al-Mukhayyat on Mt. Nebo, the lower chapel of the Priest John (pl. VII.1c), the church of Sts. Lot and Procopius (pl. VII.1e), the north aisle panel of the church of St. George (Saller and Bagatti 1949: 75, pl. 28,3), the church of the Deacon Thomas (pl. VII.1f), and the lower church of Kaianus at #Uyun Musa on Mt. Nebo (pl. VII.1d). A similar damaged figure is rendered at al-Khadir at Madaba, and in the 8th-century St. Stephen at Umm al-Rasas (Piccirillo 1993: 131, figs. 153,202-206, 263, 274, 345). At the mosaic of the Church of Elias, Mariah and Soreg in Gerasa the vintager is rendered on the bottom row in an inhabited vine scroll (fig. VI-16). He wears a Phrygian cap, a short tunic, and a fluttering chlamys. He holds a knife in his right hand and gathers a bunch of grapes on the left (Saller and Bagatti 1949: 271, pl. 45). The third panel of the church of St. Paul at Umm al-Rasas displays a disfigured inhabited vine scroll carpet of which only four medallions have partly survived (Piccirillo 1997: 386-7, plan I, foto 25; 2002: 545). In one of the medallions the hands of a figure cutting off a bunch of grapes survived. The Grape Porter The grape porter in the inhabited vine scroll appears as a youth carrying a basket on his left shoulder; he wears a short sleeveless tunic decorated with two orbiculi, and is either barefoot or has sandals on his feet. A grape porter occurs at Room L in Lady Mary Monastery at Beth She"an (fig. VII-1a) (Fitzgerald 1939, pl. XVII, fig. 1). A porter with a full basket of grapes and a knife, his right leg stretched out on the frame of the medallion, appears at el-Hammam at Beth She"an (fig. VII-1b) in two medallions in the bottom row, one almost completely destroyed (Avi-Yonah 1936: 14, pl. XVII, 4). A porter carrying a basket of grapes is portrayed in a partly destroyed medallion of an inhabited vine scroll mosaic at Caesarea (fig. VII-1c) (mosaic pavement 11029, Area CV11; Lehman 1999: 147, fig. 9-10, pl. 11). In Arabian mosaics a porter wearing a short tunic and a chlamys appears in a medallion at the Chapel of Elias, Mary, and Soreg at Gerasa (fig. VII-1e); he carries the basket with both arms (Saller and Bagatti 1949: 270, pl. 45; Piccirillo 1993: 296, fig. 572). At Sts. Lot and Procopius church at Mukhayyat on Mt. Nebo the porter is depicted as an old white-bearded man carrying on chapter seven his back a basket full of grapes (fig. VII-1d) (Saller and Bagatti 1949: 59, pl. 16, 2; Piccirillo 1993: figs. 202, 205). A figure carries on his shoulder a bunch of grapes balanced by a staff, and another man carries grapes in medallions of an inhabited vine scroll mosaic on the second panel of the al- Khadir church at Madaba (Piccirillo 1993: 131, fig. 147). The grape porter usually is turning right, while the porter at Caesarea and at the Chapel of Elias, Mary, and Soreg at Gerasa is walking to the left. A Youth Leading a Donkey Transporting Grapes This scene usually fills two medallions: in one a youth is stands or walks, leading a donkey rendered in the other medallion (pl. VII.2). The youth wears a short tunic, its lower part decorated with two orbiculi. He is usually barefoot, but at Be"er Shem#a he wears sandals and in the lower chapel of the Priest John he wears shoes. The figure grasps in one hand a rope with which he leads the donkey, on which a harness usually loaded with baskets of grapes is shown. In the other hand he holds a stick or a whip. Sometimes the youth is looking back at the donkey. The donkey usually carries a pointed basket; the unusual kind of sack seen on the donkey’s back at Be"er Shem#a is exceptional. Only on the mosaic at el-Hammam does the youth carry a full basket on his back, and he drives the donkey with a two-tailed whip held in his right hand (Avi-Yonah 1936: 15, pl. XVI, 2). The basket with a pointed base carried by the donkey is the double basket, which appears in frontal position on some inhabited vine scroll mosaics (see the baskets depicted at Ma#on, Shellal, and Petra (figs. VI-5, 6; pl. VI.6-8). A youth leading a donkey appears in one medallion in the bottom row of Room L in Lady Mary Monastery at Beth She"an (pl. VII.3a). The remains of a donkey looking back are seen in another medallion in the same row (fig. VI-13) (Fitzgerald 1939: 9, pls. XVI, XVII, fig. 1,3). A figure leading a donkey in two separate medallions appears at Be"er Shem#a (Gazit and Lender 1993: pl. XXIa). At el-Hammam in Beth She"an the youth whips the donkey (pl. VII.3b) (Avi- Yonah 1936: pl. XVI, 2). An almost completely naked youth holding a whip leads a donkey in two medallions of the inhabited acanthus scroll mosaic border at Nahariya (Dauphin and Edelstein 1984: volutes 21, 22, pl. XXIIIa,b).
Table VII.1. Vintage scenes on vine or acanthus inhabited scrolls mosaic pavements Mosaic Date century CE Structure type Inhabited vine scroll vintager Porter Youth leading donkey Treading, vine press Flute player Hare eating grapes Palaestina Prima & Secunda (Israel) Be"er Shem#a 6th church + + + Beth Loya c. 6th church + Beth She"an synagogue border 6th. synagogue + + Caesarea 6th mansion + + + El Hammam, Beth She"an c. 530 tomb + + + + + + + Jerusalem, Armenian mosaic 6th church + Ma#ale Adommim, Monastery, kitchen End 5th monastery + + Monastery, Beth She"an, room L 567 monastry + + + + + + + Nahariah, border 6th church acanthus + + + Sede Nahum 6th. chapel + + + Palaestina Tertia Petra, N aisle c. 550 church + + Arabia (Jordan) Al-Khadir, Madaba 6th church + + + + + Bishop Sergius, Umm Rasas, border 587/8 church + + + Deacon Thomas, #Uyun Musa, Mt. Nebo 6th church + + + Elias, Maria, Soreg, Gerasa 6th church + + + Kaianus, #Uyun Musa Mt. Nebo, Lower mosaic 6th church + + + Priest John, Mukhayyat, Mt. Nebo, Lower Upper Late 5th chapel + + + 565 acanthus St. George, Mukhayyat, Mt. Nebo 535/36 church + + acanthus + + + + Sts. Lot & Procopius Mukhayyat, Mt. Nebo 557 church + + + + + + St. Stephen, Umm al-Rasas 8th church + + + + + Suwayfiyah, Philadelphia 6th chapel + + Phoenicia Lebanon Qabr Hiram 575 CE church + + + + + iconographic aspects of rural life 151
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Table VII.1. Vintage scenes on vine or acanthus inhabited scrolls mosaic pavements<br />
Mosaic Date<br />
century<br />
CE<br />
Structure<br />
type<br />
Inhabited vine<br />
scroll<br />
vintager Porter Youth leading<br />
donkey<br />
Treading,<br />
vine press<br />
Flute player Hare eating<br />
grapes<br />
Palaestina Prima & Secunda (Israel)<br />
Be"er Shem#a 6th church + + +<br />
Beth Loya c. 6th church +<br />
Beth She"an synagogue border 6th. synagogue + +<br />
Caesarea 6th mansion + + +<br />
El Hammam, Beth She"an c. 530 tomb + + + + + + +<br />
Jerusalem, Armenian mosaic 6th church +<br />
Ma#ale Adommim, Monastery, kitchen End 5th monastery + +<br />
Monastery, Beth She"an, room L 567 monastry + + + + + + +<br />
Nahariah, border 6th church acanthus + + +<br />
Sede Nahum 6th. chapel + + +<br />
Palaestina Tertia<br />
Petra, N aisle c. 550 church + +<br />
Arabia (Jordan)<br />
Al-Khadir, Madaba 6th church + + + + +<br />
Bishop Sergius, Umm Rasas, border 587/8 church + + +<br />
Deacon Thomas, #Uyun Musa, Mt. Nebo 6th church + + +<br />
Elias, Maria, Soreg, Gerasa 6th church + + +<br />
Kaianus, #Uyun Musa Mt. Nebo, Lower mosaic 6th church + + +<br />
Priest John, Mukhayyat, Mt. Nebo, Lower Upper Late 5th chapel +<br />
+ +<br />
565<br />
acanthus<br />
St. George, Mukhayyat, Mt. Nebo<br />
535/36 church +<br />
+<br />
acanthus + + + +<br />
Sts. Lot & Procopius Mukhayyat, Mt. Nebo 557 church + + + + + +<br />
St. Stephen, Umm al-Rasas 8th church + + + + +<br />
Suwayfiyah, Philadelphia 6th chapel + +<br />
Phoenicia Lebanon<br />
Qabr Hiram 575 CE church + + + + +<br />
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