Fragment of a Mosaic Floor Panel depicting a Fish, Peacock, Lamb, Bird and a Shrub
Unidentified Early Christian maker
Near East
about 5th-6th century
Marble tesserae
Overall: 64 1/2 × 36 1/4 in. (163.8 × 92.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Serena Ines Valli Martin-Trigona Beskind and D. Herbert Beskind, Class of 1936
MIS.974.353
Geography
Place Made: Homs, Eastern Mediterranean, Syria, West Asia, Asia
Period
500-1000
Object Name
Building Component
Research Area
Near East
On view
Exhibition History
Ancient and Premodern Global Cultures, Gene Y. Kim Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019.
Global Cultures at the Hood: Ancient to Premodern, Gene Y. Kim Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26. 2019.
Publication History
Treasures of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1985, p. 39.
Provenance
Purchased in Beirut, Lebanon by Peter Marks Works of Art, New York, New York, for Serena Ines Valli Martin-Trigona Beskind (1924-2017) and D. Herbert Beskind (1915-2015), New York, New York, 1973; lent to present collection, 1973; given to present collection, 1974.
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