22 Years Later, Another Roman-era Mosaic Found in Same Spot
July 30, 2018 Archaeologists in Israel have found something to add to a planned mosaic museum–another mosaic. This latest find is a 1,700-year-old tiled floor collection of fish, winged creatures, marine scenes, and complex geometric designs, found during a dig at Lod, in what is now central Israel but then was Diospolis, territory owned by the Roman Empire. As long ago as 1996, workers found a mosaic floor on the Mount Zion slopes near Jerusalem that turned out to have been part of a fabulous Roman villa. That mosaic and others found in the area are to be showcased in the Shelby White and Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Archaeology Center, which is due to open in 2020. Officials at the Israel Antiquities Authority suggested that similarities in the mosaics could point to the same artist's creating both mosaics, or at least a design from which another artist worked. Also discovered in the new dig at Lod, according to excavation director Amir Gorzalczany, were a few mosaics in a courtyard and a water system. |
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