Sunday, December 24, 2017

Britt and Boustan, The Elephant Mosaic Panel in the Synagogue at Huqoq

NEW BOOK FROM THE JOURNAL OF ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY SUPPLEMENT SERIES:
Published December 13, 2017.
S106. THE ELEPHANT MOSAIC PANEL IN THE SYNAGOGUE AT HUQOQ: OFFICIAL PUBLICATION AND INITIAL INTERPRETATIONS, by Karen Britt and Ra'anan Boustan. Paperback, 7 x 10 inch. 82 pages, 21 figures including colour. List price $49.75. Prepublication price to JRA individual subscribers $39.75.
Huqoq elephant panel update: with information on further discussions of the interpretation of the mosaic
Authorized photographs of the mosaic are now available on the National Geographic Society's popular news website: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/mysterious-mosaic-alexander-the-great-israel/ The full publication of the mosaic, however, is only available in JRA Supplement 106.
More on the ancient elephant mosaic from Huqoq is here and links. And for much more on the Huqoq excavation and the other mosaics excavated there, start here and follow the links.

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