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  • The Hinton St Mary Mosaic Pavement: Christ or Emperor?

  • Susan Pearce
  • Journal:
    Britannia / Volume 39 / November 2008
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 March 2010, pp. 193-218
    Print publication:
    November 2008

  • The significance of the well-known central roundel of the mosaic from Hinton St Mary, Dorset, UK, which carries a young male head with a chi-rho monogram behind it and pomegranates on each side, has been much discussed. This paper marshals evidence which suggests that the head is not a representation of Christ, but of one of the emperors of the House of Constantine, perhaps Constantine himself. Some of the implications for the nature of fourth-century imperial culture are discussed.