Abstract
Two rooms of a Late Roma-period villa were exposed on the northern bank of Naḥal Refa’im, Jerusalem. The southern room was paved with a white mosaic floor adorned with two colored panels: one, enclosed in a wide frame, contains xenia that usually adorn the floors of dining or reception rooms, and the other, is adorned with an intersecting rosette pattern. The composition, the colors and the quality of the mosaics indicate a third-century CE date.
Keywords
Roman East, art, emblema, North Africa, triclinium
Recommended Citation
Talgam, Rina
(2016)
"A Mosaic Floor with Xenia at ‘En Yaʻal (Naḥal Refa’im), Jerusalem (Hebrew, pp. 121*–126*; English summary, pp. 111–112),"
'Atiqot: Vol. 87, Article 9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70967/2948-040X.1778
Available at:
https://publications.iaa.org.il/atiqot/vol87/iss1/9
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