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Koçlu Mosaic

5th century AD. Discovered by a farm-owner near Ekviran Hamlet, Koçlu Village, Şehitkamil sub-province of Gaziantep. After research in 2005 it was decided to bring it to the museum. It constituted the floor-decoration of a small, two-chambered church. It shows four animal figures, a bear, wild boar, dog, gazelle as well as plant motifs. The notice in the museum then indicates that, whereas Roman period mosaics would often show people, in the Early Christian period motifs of a geometrical nature were used. In the late 4th century AD in this region bird figures inside rosettes are also encountered, later followed by wild and domestic animals. Figures then are place arbitrarily over the entire surface of predominantly religious structures, hence identified as “Paradise” of “Noah’s Ark”.
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