ReViews: A Magisterial Survey

In this handsome book, Rina Talgam has presented a magisterial survey of the floor mosaics in the ancient provinces of Palaestina and Arabia (present-day Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan). Although the uncovering of mosaic pavements in this region began in the 19th century, recent years have seen a spate of new and often spectacular discoveries, which have brought floor mosaics to the forefront of historical research. Talgam’s book covers the epoch from the second century before Christ to the eighth century of the Christian era, a span of nearly a thousand years that encompassed the successive Hellenistic, Roman, […]