Work / monument · artifact

Hinton St Mary Mosaic

4th century · 4th century

The Hinton St Mary Mosaic is a fourth-century Roman floor mosaic found in 1963 at Hinton St Mary in Dorset, England. Its central roundel shows the head of a man in front of the chi-rho monogram, widely thought to be one of the earliest known images of Christ. It is now in the British Museum.

Hinton St Mary Mosaic
Image: Fransars · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
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APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Hinton St Mary Mosaic. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/hinton-st-mary-mosaic
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“Hinton St Mary Mosaic.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/hinton-st-mary-mosaic. Accessed .
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The Epoch Institute. “Hinton St Mary Mosaic.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/hinton-st-mary-mosaic.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Hinton St Mary Mosaic’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/hinton-st-mary-mosaic (Accessed: ).

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