AN EARLY JEWISH MARBLE AND GLASS MOSAIC PANEL LATE ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY A.D. Preserving a section of a mosaic floor, likely from a synagogue, with a seven-branched menorah on a tripod base to the left, flames burning at the end of each arm, and a Torah shrine to the right depicted as a pedimented aedicula with two columns, a palmette in the pediment, raised up on a stepped plinth, a curtain embroidered with florals protecting the Torah behind, a lulav, etrog, shofar and incense shovel in the field 62 5/16 x 50¾ in. (158.3 x 128.9 cm.)
AN EARLY JEWISH MARBLE AND GLASS MOSAIC PANEL LATE ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY A.D. Preserving a section of a mosaic floor, likely from a synagogue, with a seven-branched menorah on a tripod base to the left, flames burning at the end of each arm, and a Torah shrine to the right depicted as a pedimented aedicula with two columns, a palmette in the pediment, raised up on a stepped plinth, a curtain embroidered with florals protecting the Torah behind, a lulav, etrog, shofar and incense shovel in the field 62 5/16 x 50¾ in. (158.3 x 128.9 cm.)
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