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Mosaic with geometric design: fragment with inscription (four of four fragments from a floor)
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One of four fragments of a large, square floor pavement with a geometric design (2016.53.2, 2016.53.3, 2016.53.1) and inscription. This black and white mosaic fragment depicts a partial Greek inscription reading EUTROPIOU. The letters are framed within a tabula ansata, the rectangular tablet shape with dovetail handles. Here, only the right handle is preserved.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Stadium Building at Samaria/Sebaste excavated; by the Joint Expedition to Samaria (Harvard University Palestine Exploration Fund Hebrew University Jerusalem British Academy the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem) (1931) dispersed; to Fogg Museum of Art 1931.
NB: Excavated under the authority of the British Department of Antiquities Jerusalem. Transferred to the Fogg Museum of Art in 1931 and accessioned in 2016.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of the Joint Expedition to Samaria 1931-1933
Title: Mosaic with geometric design: fragment with inscription (four of four fragments from a floor)
Description:
One of four fragments of a large, square floor pavement with a geometric design (2016.
53.
2, 2016.
53.
3, 2016.
53.
1) and inscription.
This black and white mosaic fragment depicts a partial Greek inscription reading EUTROPIOU.
The letters are framed within a tabula ansata, the rectangular tablet shape with dovetail handles.
Here, only the right handle is preserved.
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