Lod

  • I’m sure this sort of thing could be said about a number of exhibitions … from the Daily Pennsylvanian: The “Lod Mosaic” at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has garnered a lot of praise, but has also drawn criticism from Penn faculty. The mosaic is on the last part of its…

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  • Deciphering the Lod Mosaic

    A short video from the UPenn Museum folks … here’s the tease: Highway construction in Lod, Israel in 1996 accidently unearthed a large and well-preserved Roman mosaic that probably once decorated a large audience room. The mosaic dates to circa 300 CE and features a kind of arena of ferocious animals, including a lion and…

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