Projects

The Antioch Recovery Project

The Antioch Recovery Project (ARP) is a research lab dedicated to the study of mosaics from the city of Antioch-on-the-Orontes that uses digital tools to map and reunite virutally the atomised corpus of mosaic fragments from the site.

The Antioch Recovery Project (ARP) is a research lab and connected course dedicated to the study of mosaics from the city of Antioch-on-the-Orontes. ARP uses digital tools to map and reunite virutally the atomised corpus of mosaic fragments from the site and to share these with the public and the global community of Antioch researchers. Excavated by an international team under Franco-American direction from 1932 to the onset of World War II on September 1, 1939, these fragments of mosaic have since been distributed to institutions across the globe, from Havana to Honolulu. ARP focuses on three temporal moments in the history of these objects: their ancient production and use (2nd-6th centuries CE), their modern excavation (1932-1939), and their contemporary museum afterlives.

Map of known fragments of Antioch mosaics (updated and revised 2025)

Map of known fragments of Antioch mosaics (updated and revised 2025)
February 2020, Baltimore Museum of Art (Phase I)
ARP explores the conservation history of the Antioch mosaic fragments at the Baltimore Museum of Art, with Angela Elliott and Nicole Flam
Press and Related Essays
Facetime with research assistant Clementine Easa-Murphy in Honolulu (2023)
Facetime with research assistant Clementine Easa-Murphy in Honolulu (2023)
Students from Johns Hopkins walking across a mosaic from Antioch at Dumbarton Oaks (2023).
Students from Johns Hopkins walking across a mosaic from Antioch at Dumbarton Oaks (2023).