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Title:
Personification of Ktisis (“Foundation”/”Donation”/”Creation”)
Creator:
Description:
Ktisis, the personification of generous donation, is haloed and holds a spear in this Byzantine mosaic. She inhabits a square at the center of a cruciform formation, the outer four squares of which contain a bear, a lion, a leopard, and a donkey.
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Wikimedia Commons
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
, e.g. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
Subject
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:
Animals
Personification
Geographic Area:
Eastern Mediterranean
Century:
5
Date:
Related Work:
Current Location:
Lebanon, Beiteddine Palace
Original Location:
Porphyrion (present-day Jiyyeh)
Artistic Type (Category):
Digital images; Mosaics
Artistic Type (Material/Technique):
Donor:
Height/Width/Length(cm):
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Inscription:
KT/I/CIC
Related Resources:
Poulsen, Birte, "City Personifications in Late Antiquity," in Using Images in Late Antiquity. Edited by Stine Birk, Troels Myrup Kristensen, and Birte Poulsen. Oxbow Books, 2014. Pages 209 - 226.