CAESAREA NATIONAL PARK

Rare mosaic from the Roman period comes to light in Caesarea National Park, Israel.

A rare and beautiful Roman mosaic from the 2nd-3rd centuries CE, bearing an inscription in ancient Greek, is being uncovered at the Caesarea National Park.

The dig uncovered part of a large, opulent building dating back 1,500 years to the Byzantine period. Scholars believe the building was part of an agora – large public area for commerce and socializing – a kind of ancient version of Tel Aviv’s shopping complexes. To the archaeologists’ surprise, under the imposing Byzantine-era structure they found a spectacular mosaic from an even earlier building dating back about 1,800 years.

The figures, all males, wear togas and apparently belonged to the upper class. The central figure is frontal and the two other face him on either side. Who are they? That depends on what the building was used for, which is not yet clear. If the mosaic was part of a mansion, the figures may have been the owners. If this was a public building, they might have represented the donors of the mosaic or members of the city council.”

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Another mosaic at the photos below.

CESAR KLEIN

César Klein (1876-1954).

MEDUSAS

Greek and Roman mosaics.

 

by CARAVAGGIO

by PETER PAUL RUBENS

 

SAMSON SCHAMES

Samson Schames (1898-1967).

JERASH

Jerash is the site of the ruins of the Greco-Roman city of Gerasa, also referred to as Antioch on the Golden River. Ancient Greek inscriptions from the city as well as literary sources from both Iamblichus and the Etymologicum Magnum support that the city was founded by Alexander the Great or his general Perdiccas, who settled aged Macedonian soldiers there. This took place during the spring of 331 BC, when Alexander left Egypt, crossed Syria and then went to Mesopotamia.

ANATOLIY GANKEVICH

Anatoliy Gankevich (b. 1965).

PIETÀ

FAITH RINGGOLD

Faith Ringgold (b. 1930).

BOSRA

Bosra is a town in southern Syria, administratively belonging to the Daraa District of the Daraa Governorate and geographically being part of the Hauran region.

Its settlement was first mentioned in the documents of Thutmose III and Akhenaten (14th century BC). Bosra was the first Nabatean city in the 2nd century BC. The Nabatean Kingdom was conquered by Cornelius Palma, a general of Trajan, in 106 AD.

 

Today, it is a major archaeological site and has been declared by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

CIMABUE

Cenni di Petro Cimabue (C.1240-1302).

BASILICA OF SAN VITALE

in Ravenna, Italy.

LEWIS LAVOIE