Aşağı Çardak Mosaic. 5th century AD. Found in Aşağıçardak Village in the Nizip sub-province of Gaziantep in the 1970’s it was brought to the museum after a rescue-excavation in 2009. It is considered to be from a martyr’s cemetery. It has a main panel and a surrounding geometrical border containing grapes and vine leaves, with another border of colours. Birds and Gordian knots are shown in round, rectangular and diamond-shaped rosettes, most of them damaged to some extent. Four epigraphs in Greek also figure in the mosaic.
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Aşağı Çardak Mosaic september 2014 2735.jpg
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Aşağı Çardak Mosaic september 2014 2736.jpg
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Aşağı Çardak Mosaic september 2014 2737.jpg