Fragment of a Mosaic Floor Panel depicting a Rampant Dog in Flying Gallop

Unidentified Early Christian maker
Near East

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about 5th-6th century

Marble tesserae

Overall: 42 1/2 × 70 7/8 in. (107.9 × 180 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Serena Ines Valli Martin-Trigona Beskind and D. Herbert Beskind, Class of 1936

MIS.974.352

Geography

Place Made: Homs, Eastern Mediterranean, Syria, West Asia, Asia

Period

500-1000

Object Name

Building Component

Research Area

Near East

Not on view

Exhibition History

Acquistions 1974-1978, Jaffe-Friede, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 8, 1978-January 21, 1979.

Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 15, 1991-June 22, 1997.

Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 2008.

Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, present.

Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16, 1997-January 21, 2008.

Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, May 12, 2016-June 30, 2018.

Publication History

Treasures of the Hood Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1985, p. 39.

John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 78, ill. plate no. 9.

Provenance

Purchased in Beirut, Lebanon by Peter Marks Works of Art, 9 East 84th Street, New York, New York, for Serena Ines Valli Martin-Trigona Beskind (1924-2017) and D. Herbert Beskind (1915-2015), Class of 1936, New York, New York, 1973; lent to present collection, 1973; given to present collection, 1974.

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