Conserving mosaics of Tunisia [videorecording] / [lecture by] Aïcha Ben Abed ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Conserving mosaics of Tunisia [videorecording] / [lecture by] Aïcha Ben Abed ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

Lecturer Aïcha Ben Abed, director of monuments and sites at the Institut National du Patrimoine, Tunisia, speaks about the collections of mosaics in Tunisian museums and about the history of mosaic conservation in North Africa. A selection of Tunisian mosaics are on view in the exhibition "Stories in stone: conserving mosaics of Roman Africa; masterpieces from the National Museums of Tunisia."

1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (ca. 70 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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