Restoration-conservation works on a late roman mosaic in the chapel of St John in the monastery of St Francis at Pula

From November to December 2009, a crew from the Archaeological Museum of Istria (AMI), the restorers Andrea Sardoz and Monika Petrovic and senior preparator Luana Milotic, together with the Croatian Conservation Institute (CCI), conservator-restorer Toni Saina, the head of the Natural Science Laboratory Domagoj Mudronja, and mosaicist Matko Kezele, conducted a series of rescue conservation works on the Roman mosaic located in the chapel of St. John in the monastery of St. Francis at Pula. The article describes the state of the mosaic at the beginning of the works, and the course of the conservation-restoration works, it then continues with a description of the executed works, concluding with a review of the documentation at hand and the performed laboratory analyses. (D'après le résumé de la revue)