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‘The Corinium mosaics display a well-mannered paganism, which, as in S. Constanza, would not have been obnoxious to Christians. Indeed Christian and pagan motifs are combined in mosaics from Frampton (no longer extant) to Hinton St. Mary (British Museum, London), both laid by the firm of mosaicists from Dorchester, Dorset. Both depict the Christian “Chi-Rho” and the latter the head of Christ as well; but they also portray Bellerophon on Pegasus slaying the Chimaera,* and at Frampton the head of Neptune, and figures of Bacchus and Venus and Adonis are shown as well.’

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*[cf [Redbook8:269][19910219:1155g]{Christians and Pagans [continued (4)]}[19th February 1991]]

**– ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 2]: 208-9

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