Cleveland Museum of Art
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic: Adam and Eve
late 400s–early 500s CE
In the Syrian village where this mosaic was created, few people could read and even fewer had access to books. The images within the church educated the community, leading 5th-century Pope Gregory the Great to describe religious images as "books for the illiterate."
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