Olbia. East Basilica. Nave mosaic. River Euphrates; Kastalia. (Updated over a year ago)

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BYZANTINE PROVINCIAL Anonymous (c. 330-1453): The original mosaic was made up of 10 rows of 5 panels set into a grid with a frame of looped-circles. The Euphrates was one of the 4 paradisiacal rivers of Eden in the Book of Genesis (Chap. 2). Kastalia was the pagan nymph of the prophetic springs of the Delphic Oracle.

Tags: byzantine , byzantine (early) , medieval , mosaics

Added to CSU World Image Archive on October 28, 2007.

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