Israeli Archeologists Unveil Byzantine Mosaic, Table

Agence France-Presse ^ | September 19, 2005

[Cecily]

[NormsRevenge]

AFLAC :)

[ValerieUSA]

ping a ling

[NormsRevenge]

Journalists work at the site of an uncovered remains of a Byzantine mansion with pictorial mosaic carpet measuring 16x14.5m that had been buried under sand dunes for the past 50 years in the Israeli port city of Caesarea. According to the excavation's director, Dr. Y. Porat, the mansion probably belonged to a most important personage in the city of Caesarea, and perhaps in the entire province of Palestine Primae.(AFP/Eitan Abramovich)

[Moonmad27]

Those "wild boards" can be ferocious.

[tang-soo]

...in the entire province of Palestine Primae

Where is that?

[tubebender]

Nice work. What was the material used ya reckon?

[NormsRevenge]

Between Tel Aviv and Haifa on the coast of the Mediterranean

[NormsRevenge]

lots and lots of small colored tiles

[Candor7]

Yes,

The froggys need a little more English spell-check work over there at Agence-France Press:

Quote:Bordered by a freize of running animals, including lions, panthers, wild boards ( sic), antelope, elephant, dog and bull,................Unquote.

I have shot several wild boards, and they always seem to have French Tatoos on their nether regions. Go figure!

Les Francaise aiment des couchons grandes!

Agence-France Press must be a splinter group or perhaps a chip off the auld Gaulist block?

[SunkenCiv]

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[AZLiberty]

Meanwhile, Palestinians are turning Gaza into rubble.

[KellyAdmirer]

Ceasarea was the home of King Herod. It eventually became a key Crusader castle. Lots of history there.

[Dustbunny]

What a find! I hope they can preserve it as it is beautiful.

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