Ram near a Tree
Unknown Artist
400s
Medium
marble tesserae
Dimensions
89.5 × 85.1 cm · mounted: 92.1 × 87 cm
Classification
Mosaic
Department
Medieval Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
1969.113
About this artwork
The two mosaic fragments of an ibex and a ram (1969.114) once formed part of a much larger floor mosaic that decorated an early Byzantine church in northern Syria. Displayed upright in the museum context, these mosaic fragments were originally displayed flat, possibly flanking the church's altar to evoke a paradise setting. The mosaic fragment showing the Fall of Adam and Eve (1969.115) is likely to have formed part of the same floor.