Its tour included the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: “It was such as thrill to see the name Lod on the Metropolitan Museum,” White says. Its itinerary also included the Louvre in Paris; the Altes Museum in Berlin; Waddesdon Manor (a country house popular among tourists) in England; the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg; the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio; the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology in Philadelphia; the Field Museum in Chicago; Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice; and the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami.PaleoJudaica followed the peregrinations of the mosaic on its world tour for some years.
In this article Ms. Schuster gives a characteristically comprehensive account of the Lod Mosaic: its discovery, its contents, the background of its ancient city (Lydda), and its archaeological context, including the other two mosaics found at the site in recent years.
For many PaleoJudaica posts on all three Lod Mosaics, start here and follow the links. Cross-file under Decorative Art.
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