Roman villa of Els Munts
Virtual reconstruction
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Yoruba Opon Igede Ifa Lidded Bowl
Nigeria, 20th century
www.artkhade.com/.../a-yoruba...

Ijebu Yoruba Omo Bronze Bell
19th century, Nigeria
Artkhade BJC-189779
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Church of Sant'Andrea in Brossasco, Italy
baptismal font from 1450
www.chieseromaniche.it/Schede/264-B...
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Church of San Bernardo in Vercelli, Italy
On the sides of the door are two panels depicting a scene of a centaur hunting a deer. The right panel with the deer also includes a Solomon's Knot enclosed within a circle trimmed with 40 dots.
ca. 12th century
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Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Plut.1.56
Syriac Rabbula Gospels ff.2v-3r
Solomon's Knot is in the corners framing the Letter of Eusebius to Carpianus.
Dating to 586 AD this might be the earliest representation of Solomon's Knot in the context of the Eusebian Canons.
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Painting of a portrait in a roundel from a Roman mosaic possibly depicting Minerva or Mercury (or another helmet wearing deity or hero) surrounded by floral designs

Painting of a damaged Roman polychrome mosaic with floral designs

In 1903 a 4th century #Roman mosaic was uncovered at Fifehead Neville #Dorset

The central image was recorded by Mary Hartley just before souvenir hunters destroyed it 😱

The second painting © Stephen Cosh (2005) reconstructs the full floor from what was left before reburial

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Labours of Hercules in Volubilis, Morocco
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Atalaya Castle in Villena, Spain
Solomon's Knot with Hamsa next to second floor window.
14th century
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Textile fragment
Antinopolis, Egypt
Byzantine period 395-641
collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/c...
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Sousse Museum in the Medina, Tunisia
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Chester Beatty Ms. Arm 564
Letter of Eusebius to Carpianus
Solomon's Knot features in the decorated headings to the portraits of Eusebius and Carpianus and an incomplete canon table.

Vastergotland, Surteby, Sweden
Starrkärrsgruppe Baptismal font
2nd half of the 13th century
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Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
Very rare examples of Solomon's Knot in the media of stonemasonry and papyrus from the Roman period
oxyrhynchus.web.ox.ac.uk/virtual-exhi...

Mosaic from a Roman villa of Caesaraugusta.
4th century
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Decorated Initial Q from a Carolingian Psalter
Getty Museum Ms. Ludwig VIII 1 (83.MK.92), verso
Northern Italy, third quarter of 9th century
Solomon's Knots and the Three Triangular Dots
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Coptic limestone ostracon from Egypt
British Museum EA20389

Gold band
Sorunda, Sweden
7th century AD

Gold band
Ephesus
7th-6th century BC

Baptismal font in the church of Santa Fe in Zaldibia, Guipúzcoa, Basque Country, Spain
13th century
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St. Martin of Tours and Solomon's Knot
Old Cathedral of Salamanca, Spain
Entrance to the Chapel of St. Martin
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St Martin's Church, Canterbury
Solomon's Knot in the arches
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St Martin's Church, Canterbury
Solomon's Knot in the arches
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Why aren't any of the people looking at the awe inspiring artifacts?

Saint Mark's Basilica in Venice
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Two fish in a 'Q'(uibus)
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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 347(975); Eusebius Caesariensis, Historia ecclesiastica; 8th/9th century; Rätien; p.271
(www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

Lots of knots here

St. Alipius Gate, west face of Saint Mark's Basilica in Venice.
Solomon's Knot in the two oculi over the tetramorph.
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#MosaicMonday with the c4 Orpheus mosaic from the wonderful Corinium museum