On Wednesday, 27 April 2011, 7:00 pm, at the Florence Gould Theater at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco (100 – 34th Avenue, Lincoln Park, San Francisco), there will be a lecture by Miriam Avissar, Senior Archaeologist at the Israel Antiquities Authority, on *[The Lod Mosaic](http://www.lodmosaic.org/home.html) and Its Menagerie: Roman Influence on Local Mosaic Art*. The show, Marvelous Menagerie: A Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel, will be at the Legion of Honor 23 April–24 July 2011. This is one of the largest (600 sq.ft.) and most beautiful mosaics found in Israel, dated to ca. 300 CE.