Comments on: A Roman mosaic the size of my first apartment

By: livius drusus

livius drusus — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:27:32 +0000

Ooh, photos! Now those are some good friends, right there.

By: Dina

Dina — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:11:41 +0000

Beautiful, eh? Sorry I missed seeing it (sometimes you need a car), but friends sent me photos from their visit to the mosaic.
Thanks for the good info here.

By: livius drusus

livius drusus — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:11:21 +0000

It’s a fascinating question. I haven’t found any answers in my searches, unfortunately. Thus far archaeologists don’t know what the building was — only the floor remains — or what the structure’s purpose might have been.

The preponderance of seafaring and hunting motifs, plus Lod’s long history as a center of commerce, suggest perhaps that merchants commissioned the work. Certainly it must have been astonishingly expensive at the time.

By: Hels

Hels — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:18:29 +0000

I have seen some beautiful floor mosaics in Israel and Jordan but this one might be bigger, more colourful and better preserved than the others. Why, do you think, Lod was the site; what was in Lod that would attract such expensive and elegant decoration?

Hels
Art and Architecture, mainly

By: livius drusus

livius drusus — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:15:34 +0000

That’s because you’re a man of refined tastes, as I’ve mentioned on even more occasions.