Fragment of a Mosaic Floor Panel depicting a Rampant Dog in Flying Gallop
Unidentified Early Christian maker
Near East
about 5th-6th century
Marble tesserae
Overall: 42 1/2 × 70 7/8 in. (107.9 × 180 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Serena Ines Valli Martin-Trigona Beskind and D. Herbert Beskind, Class of 1936
MIS.974.352
Geography
Place Made: Homs, Eastern Mediterranean, Syria, West Asia, Asia
Period
500-1000
Object Name
Building Component
Research Area
Near East
Not on view
Exhibition History
Acquistions 1974-1978, Jaffe-Friede, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 8, 1978-January 21, 1979.
Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 15, 1991-June 22, 1997.
Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 2008.
Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, present.
Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16, 1997-January 21, 2008.
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, May 12, 2016-June 30, 2018.
Publication History
Treasures of the Hood Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1985, p. 39.
John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 78, ill. plate no. 9.
Provenance
Purchased in Beirut, Lebanon by Peter Marks Works of Art, 9 East 84th Street, New York, New York, for Serena Ines Valli Martin-Trigona Beskind (1924-2017) and D. Herbert Beskind (1915-2015), Class of 1936, New York, New York, 1973; lent to present collection, 1973; given to present collection, 1974.
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