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Hinton St Mary mosaic
Hinton St Mary, Dorset, United Kingdom · Britain & Ireland
50.944, -2.306
Attested. The mosaic and chi-rho are attested. Whether the bust is Christ or an emperor such as Constantine is debated.
This early-4th-century villa floor, found in 1963, has a central bust of a man with a chi-rho behind his head, set among hunting scenes and Bellerophon killing the Chimaera. It is often read as one of the earliest images of Christ in the Roman world. It is now in the British Museum.
Source stance: neutral. Archaeology and museum record.
People and groups named here
- Unidentified villa owner
Sources
- The Hinton St Mary Mosaic (1965,0409.1)
British Museum. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Hinton St Mary Mosaic (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
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