Mosaic Floor from Round Church Ambulatory

Also found as part of the excavations of the Round Church, this semi-circular mosaic in a niche of the ambulatory may have been surrounded by colorful wall mosaics, which did not survive into the twentieth century.

Provenience: Ambulatory of Round Church on the Tel.

Date: Late 5th/Early 6th c. CE

Dimensions: 118cm x 109cm

Object Number: 29-107-934

Museum Record

Round Church Plan

1:1 Drawing of mosaics in situ

Mosaic detail

Tesserae Scale

Mosaic in situ

Fitzgerald 1931

Further Reading:

Fitzgerald, Gerald M. Beth-Shan Excavations 1921-1923: the Arab and Byzantine Levels. Philadelphia: University Press for the University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1931. Plate XIX, 4.