Mosaic floor discovered in Israel on view at Penn Museum in PhiladelphiaBackground on the mosaic and its earlier travels is here and links.
Kristie Rearick/South Jersey Times By Kristie Rearick/South Jersey Times
on February 15, 2013 at 12:38 PM, updated February 15, 2013 at 7:18 PM
Bringing a mosaic floor — one believed to have come from the home of a wealthy Roman living in the Eastern Roman Empire at about 300 CE — into the Penn Museum in Philadelphia, was not an easy task.
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
Lod Mosaic in Philly
THE LOD MOSAIC is on its last stop in the United States, before heading to Paris and then back to Israel: