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Abel, F. M. 1924 Décourvertes récentes a Beit Djebrin. RB 33: 583-604. Adler, G. 2003 Context and Meaning. Tale of Odysseus on the Leontis Mosaic from Bet Shean. MA Thesis. University of Haifa. Aharoni, Y 1954 Excavations at Beth Hashitta. Bulletin of the Israel Exploration Society 18: 209-215 (Hebrew). Åkerström-Hougen, G. 1974 The Calendar and Hunting Mosaics of the Villa of the Falconer in Argos (Acta Institutis Atheniensis Regni Sueciae, Series 4, 23). Stockholm. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, E. 1975 A Nilotic Scene on Justianic Floor Mosaics in Cyrenaican churches, La Mosaïque Gréco- Romaine II, Paris: 149-153. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, E. & Ward Perkins, J. 1980 Justinianic Mosaic Pavements in Cyrenaican Churches. Roma. Allen, D. C. 1963 The Legends of Noah. Urbana. Amir, R. 2004 Mosaics and Frescoes, in Y. Hirschfeld, Exca va tions at Tiberias, 1989-1994. IAA Report 22. Jeru salem: 138-148. Amiran, R. 1954 A Fragment of an Ornamental Relief from Kfar Bar’am. Eretz Israel 3: 178-181 (Hebrew). Amit, D. 1995 Architectural Plans of Synagogues in the Southern Judean Hills and the ‘Halcha’, in D. Urman and P.V.M. Flesher (eds.), Ancient Synagogues, Historical Analysis and Archaeological Discovery. Vol. 1. Leiden, New York, Köln: 129-156. Amouretti, M-C, J.-P. Brun and D. Eitam (eds.) 1993 Oil and Wine Production in the Mediterranean Area. Paris. BCH supp. XXVI. Aviam, M. 2003 Recent Excavations and Survey of Churches and Monasteries in Western Galilee, in G.C. Bottini et al. (eds.), One Land–Many Cultures. Jerusalem. Avigad, N. 1960 An Aramaic Inscription from the Synagogue at Umm el-’Amed in Galilee. Bulletin Rabinowitz III, Jerusalem: 62-64. 1962 The Mosaic Pavement of the Beth ‘Alpha Synagogue and Its Place in the History of Jewish Art. The Beth-shean Valley. The 17th Archaeological Convention. Jerusalem: 63-70 (Hebrew). 1967 On the Form of Ancient Synagogues in Galilee, in H.Z. Hirschberg (ed.), All the Land of Naphtali. Jerusalem: 91-100 (Hebrew). 1976 Beth She’arim, Vol. III Jerusalem. 1983 Discovering Jerusalem. Jerusalem. 1989 The Herodian Quarter in Jerusalem. Wohl Achaeological Museum. Jerusalem. bibliography 297 BIBLIOGRAPHY Avissar, M. 1996 Lod–Mosaic Pavement. HA 105: 157-160 (He - brew). 1999 Lod–Mosaic Pavement. Qadmoniot 117: 41-43 (Hebrew). Avi-Yonah M. 1932 Mosaic Pavements in Palestine, QDAP II: 136- 181 (reprinted in Art in Ancient Palestine. Jerusalem: 283-382). 1933 Mosaic Pavements in Palestine, QDAP III: 26-47, 49-73 (reprinted in Art in Ancient Palestine. Jerusalem 1981: 329-375). 1934 A Sixth-Century Synagogue at Isfiya. QDAP III: 118-31. 1935 Mosaic Pavements in Palestine, QDAP IV: 187-193 (reprinted in Art in Ancient Palestine. Jerusalem 1981: 376-382). 1936 Mosaic Pavement at El-Hammam, Beisan. QDAP V: 11-30. 1942 Oriental Elements in the Art of Palestine in the Roman and Byzantine Periods. QDAP X: 105-151 (reprinted in Art in Ancient Palestine. Jerusalem 1981: 1-47). 1948 Oriental Elements in the Art of Palestine in the Roman and Byzantine Periods. QDAP XIII: 128-165 (reprinted in Art in Ancient Palestine. Jerusalem 1981: 48-85). 1950 Oriental Elements in the Art of Palestine in the Roman and Byzantine Periods. QDAP XIV: 49-80 (reprinted in Art in Ancient Palestine. Jerusalem 1981: 86-117). 1954 The Madaba Mosaic Map. Jerusalem. 1957 Places of Worship in the Roman and Byzantine Periods, Antiquity and Survival 3: 262-272. 1960a Israeli Mosaics. UNESCO. 1960b The Mosaic Pavement, the Ancient Synagogue of Ma#on (Nirim). Rabinowitz Bulletin III: 25-35. 1961 Oriental Art in Roman Palestine. Rome. 1964 The Caesarea Inscription of the Twenty-Four Priestly Courses, in E.J. Vardaman, J.L. Garrett and J.B. Adair (eds.), The Teacher’s Yoke: Studies in Memory of Henry Trantham. Waco: 46-57. 1965 La Mosaïque Juive dans ses relations avec la mosaïque classique, in La Mosaïque Greco-Romaine I, Paris: 325-331. 1966 An Ancient Synagogue at Gaza. Yediot 30: 221-223 (Hebrew). 1967 The Mosaic Pavements, in M.W. Prausnitz, Excavations at Shavei Zion. Rome: 47-63. 1968 The Facade of Herod’s Temple, An Attempted Reconstruction, in J. Neusner (ed.), Religions in Anti quity, Essays in Memory of E.R. Goodenough. Leiden: 327-334. 1972 The Haditha Mosaic Pavement, IEJ 22: 118-122. 1973 Goodenough’s Evaluation of the Dura Paintings: A Critic. In J. Gutmann, (ed.), The Dura-Europos. Synagogue: A Re-evaluation (1932-1972). Mon tana: 117-135.
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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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mosaic pavements adorning buildings
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mosaic pavements adorning buildings
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mosaic pavements adorning buildings
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mosaic pavements adorning buildings
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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 zodiac panel and its significan
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the zodiac panel and its significan
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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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Table III-1. Comparative chart of t
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Figure III-12. Part of a stone ceil
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A Roman villa at Odos Triakosion in
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the four seasons, representing the
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iblical narrative themes and images
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iblical narrative themes and images
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iblical narrative themes and images
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Noah’s Ark biblical narrative the
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iblical narrative themes and images
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Jonah biblical narrative themes and
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iblical narrative themes and images
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iblical narrative themes and images
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Nilotic scenes are a recurrent them
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iconographic elements of nilotic sc
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I.1 Masada mosaic pavements: a. ant
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I.3 Jerusalem, Upper City, pavement
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II.1 Torah shrine panels on synagog
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II.3 Comparable shrines on Jordan m
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III.1 Hammath Tiberias synagogue zo
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III.3 Beth "Alpha synagogue zodiac
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III.5 Sun God on synagogue pavement
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III.7 Zodiac signs on synagogue pav
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III.9 Zodiac signs on synagogue pav
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III.11 The four seasons on synagogu
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IV.1 Binding of Isaac on synagogue
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IV.3 David-Orpheus on the Gaza syna
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IV.5 The Orpheus mosaic, Jerusalem.
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IV.7 Sepphoris synagogue, The Conse
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V.1 Nilotic scene at Beth Leontis,
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V.3 Nilotic scene at Sepphoris Nile
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eagle. Another Nilotic scene appear
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shown standing on the river bank as
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The depiction of a putto riding a c
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Table V.1. Nilotic Elements on Byza
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Nile Festival mosaic, with the addi
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The ‘inhabited scroll’ became o
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donkey. Lively animal chase scenes
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naturalistic in execution, and unli
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which contains objects flanked by s
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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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iconographic aspects of rural life
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likewise surround the basin of the
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iconographic aspects of rural life
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iconographic aspects of rural life
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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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iconoclasm on mosaic pavements of s
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iconoclasm on mosaic pavements of s
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iconoclasm on mosaic pavements of s
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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.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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mosaicists, workshops, and the repe
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connections with Egypt, and perhaps
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mosaicists, workshops, and the repe
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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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mosaicists, workshops, and the repe
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of designs from general pattern boo
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concluding remarks, comments, and o
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concluding remarks, comments, and o
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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.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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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