The Lod Mosaic: A Spectacular Roman Mosaic Floor by Gideon; Bowersock, Glen; Gorzalczany, Amir; Schwartz, Joshua; Talgam, Rina Avni ISBN 13: 9781857599701

Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers, 2015-11-04. Hardcover. New. **HARDBACK**

Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd, 2015. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

New York, NY: Scala Arts Publishers, Inc, 2015. Hardcover. VG+. Black covers, white lettering on spine. Pictorial DJ. 112 pp : color illustrations, color maps. In 1996 a series of exquisite Roman mosaic floors was accidentally uncovered during highway construction in the modern Israeli town of Lod. The mosaics featured elegant and superbly crafted animals, fish, birds and other creatures, dating to around AD 300. They probably belonged to a private house and served as a series of reception or audience halls, where visitors would have been met and entertained. The mosaic has just completed a world tour that included the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Field Museum in Chicago, the Louvre in Paris, the Altes Museum in Berlin, Waddesdon Manor in England and the Hermitage in St Petersburg, among other prominent venues. It will now be based at its new home at The Shelby White and Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Archaeological Centre in Lod, Israel. Published with the Israel Antiquities Authority to celebrate… Read more

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