Editorial: Peeters
Colección: Polish Publications in Mediterranean Archaeology ; 7
Número de páginas: 583 págs.
Fecha de edición: 31-12-2022
EAN: 9789042950566
ISBN: 978-90-429-5056-6
Precio (sin IVA): 175,38 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 182,40 €
It all began on a spring day in 1975 on a beach in southern Lebanon - bulldozing works revealed blocks of stone with vivid wall paintings. This chance discovery led to full-scale excavation of a Late Antique settlement, identified later with ancient Porphyreon. Close to 300 fragments of wall paintings were uncovered: jeweled crosses, human figures, animals, plants, geometric motifs, and painted Greek inscriptions - an abundance of iconographic repertoire unmatched at any other Late Antique archaeological site in the Eastern Mediterranean. The vicissitudes of modern Lebanese history and the fragmentary condition of the assemblage led to this collection being undocumented, unstudied, unpublished, and virtually forgotten for nearly four decades.