| Scope and Content |
Card base with nine black and white ink illustrations attached, with the letters a-i written in pencil to the top left corner. The number 350 is pasted in the lower left corner. "Theotokou J.P.Droop" is written in ink in the lower right corner. Each image has beside it later annotations in pencil, giving bibliographic references. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Mosaic pavements from a Byzantine church at Theotokou in Thessaly. These mosaics consist mainly of birds, flowers and geometrical designs. The patterning is good, and some of the birds, notably the hen correcting her chicken, are designed with point and humour. On the evidence of coins found in the course of the excavations the church cannot be later than 570 A.D. The mosaics, which are late Roman rather than early Christian in style, can be assigned to the 5th century (excavated by A.J.B. Wace and J.P Droop)." |
