mosaic floor
- Museum number
- 1965,0409.1
- Title
- Object: The Hinton St Mary Mosaic
- Description
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Mosaic; a continuous floor in two large panels, joined by an eleven foot opening; the smaller of the two rooms has three rectangular panels, the centre one depicting Bellerophon mounted on Pegasus spearing the Chimæra, the side panels show hunting scenes; the larger floor has a central roundel surrounded by four lunettes and four quarter-circles, in the centre is a human bust with a chi-rho monogram behind the head, the outer corners depict four male busts, winds or Evangelists, three of the lunettes depict hunting scenes, one shows a tree.
- Production date
- 4thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Length: 28.40 feet
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Length: 8.60 metres
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Width: 19.60 feet
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Width: 5.90 metres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- On display (G49/od)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2017-2018 19 Oct-18 Feb, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Imagining the divine: Art and the Rise of the World Religions (roundel only)
2011 23 June-9 Oct, London, BM, Treasures of Heaven
2010-2011, London, BM/BBC, ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects’
2006 31 Mar-29 Oct, York, Yorkshire Museum, Constantine
- Acquisition date
- 1965
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1965,0409.1
