Property from the Collec♌tion of the late Antonin and Christiane Besse

A Byzantine Mosaic Panel

circa late 4th Century A.D.

of rectangular form, composed of red tesserae arr🔯anged in five lines of Greek inscription divided by yellow lines within a multicoloured tabula ansata, the inscription translating "Under Apolinarios the most venerable priest and periodeutes, the church was paved with mosaics in the year 709 (probably A.D. 397), the month of Daisias, on the twelfth day" and terminating in a horizontal voluted S motif.

83 by 175 cm.