The Excavation of Antioch-on-the-Orontes 1932-1939

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H. 0.89m W. 3.06m Geometric panel. Outer white field with a series of crosses with short arms of equal length; from the center of each arm projects a small arm three tesserae long by one wide; these and the outline of the main cross are dark gray; the latter is followed by rows of red, yellow, pink and white; the center is filled with an equal-armed cross of dark gray. Outer wide border is edged in gray and filled with a design of circles so intersecting as to divided each into four quarters ovoid in shape, leaving a concave-sided cross in the center; center of each ovoid is red; cross outlined in gray, with each successive row in yellow-brown, white, gray, red, pink, white and gray, working toward the center from all four sides. Inner border outlined in gray. Main design consists of a row of figures composed of squares with an elongated hexagon at the top and bottom of each square, the sides of the hexagon being indented; these indented sides in gray; field of hexagon yellow-brown with cross in center in white; squares a) outlined in gray with inner squares in red, pinkish-yellow, white and gray, b) outlined in gray with inner squares of blue-gray, white and gray. In the center of the white background between these figures are crosses in gray.

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