Home : Complete Site List : Search : What's New? : Permission to Use : Contact Us

Mansion Pergola Opus Sectile

< Prev | 4 of 6 | Next >
Mansion Pergola Opus Sectile
Click Photo for Larger Version
Please read before you download

Images and/or text from holylandphotos.org are NOT TO BE USED ON OTHER WEB SITES, NOR COMMERCIALLY, without special permission. To request permission contact us at holylandphotos@gmail.com.

Photo Comments

View looking east at the apse and floor of the Pergola of the "Sunken Garden" of the Byzantine mansion.  The floor was made out of cut marble pieces.  This type of flooring is called Opus Sectile, which means, "cut stone."  It was a more expensive flooring than a mosaic floor.

Part of the staircase that led up to the mansion is visible on the far upper left of the image.


This was a splendid three-story seafront mansion that was built in the 6th century A.D.  The "sunken garden" was built out over a portion of the old Western Hippodrome—the northern portion of which had been out of use for hundreds of years.