Diakonikon-Baptistery
Intact Byzantine mosaic from 530 AD with hunting and pastoral scenes and the name of its creators, the mosaicists Soel, Kaium, and Elias. Moses Basilica, Mount Nebo
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The classical subject of "venationes," or hunting scenes, include here scenes of captured animals such as the ostrich, zebra and camel being led away on ropes.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Intact Byzantine mosaic from 530 AD with hunting and pastoral scenes and the name of its creators, the mosaicists Soel, Kaium, and Elias. Moses Basilica, Mount Nebo