Palestine, Jericho, Hisham Palace (Khirbet al-Mafjar), mosaic floor (Tree of life)

Title: en Palestine, Jericho, Hisham Palace (Khirbet al-Mafjar), mosaic floor (Tree of life)
Rights: en This item is free to use for research and academic purposes; please contact archives@acorjordan.org for non-watermarked images. Commercial use is granted on a case by case basis.
Description: en 2nd quarter of the 8th century, an unusual mosaic floor was found in a room ending in an apse in the bath house precinct of the palace. It shows a fruit tree: on one side of the tree, two gazelles beneath its branches are nibbling leaves, while a lion is killing a gazelle on the other side., Due to sellotape affixed to the original slide mounts, some of the images in the George Bass collection show the affects of the adhesive on the film, distorting the color into orange halos. ACOR has uploaded these complete images, as well as cropped copies, to share the history of the slides in the collection as photographic objects worthy of study themselves.
ID from Starchive: 90965