Mosaic: Jewish, Christian, Or Pagan?

lod1_jpg_230x630_q85I was at the Metropolitan Museum the other day, and have to agree with G. W. Bowersock: ‘It’s not easy to make sense of the remarkable Lod Mosaic, a large, ancient floor newly discovered in Israel and now on display in the United States for the first time at the [Met]. But the very difficulty of interpretation, together with the excellent state of preservation, is what makes it so fascinating.’

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