Mosaic Pavements in Palestine
[London, Humprey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1934].
Quarto, [ii] (trimmed and mounted title-wrapper, verso blank), 91 pages plus 9 pages of plates (from photographs).
Later binder's cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; cloth lightly marked; occasional emphases and annotations in pencil; an excellent copy.
'Reprinted from "The Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine", Volumes II and III' is printed at the foot of the panel trimmed from the original front wrapper of the reprint from the journal. Not least, '306. Shellal, Gaza. Discovered in May 1917' (page 62). The Australian War Memorial website has this to say about it: 'During the second battle of Gaza, on 17 April 1917, a group of Australian signallers led by Corporal (later Sergeant) Ernest Lovell-Shore discovered a mosaic that had been partially uncovered by Turkish troops, who had built a trench on a mound in the Wadi Ghuzze near the town of Shellal. As part of the process of establishing a helio station on the site, the Australian troops uncovered an extraordinary example of Byzantine art which is now known as the Shellal Mosaic. Created in AD 561 - 562 under the reign of the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian, the Mosaic is now held in the art collection of the Australian War Memorial (C157127) and is on permanent display in the Hall of Valour'.
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