Basilica B
Name of structure: | Basilica B |
Extended name of structure: | Basilica of bishop Elpidios |
Type of structure: | Church |
Country or main area: | Greece |
Region within country or main area: | Macedonia |
City or area within region: | Nea Anchialos |
Date of structure: | 450-99 |
Century of structure 1: | 5 AD |
Century of structure 2: | 5 AD |
Specific place of mosaic: | Scattered tesserae on ground, including chunks with plaster. |
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | n/a |
Date of mosaic: | 5C |
Century of mosaic 1: | 5 AD |
Century of mosaic 2: | 5 AD |
Silver tessera at site: | Unknown |
Gold tessera at site: | Unknown |
Colour tessera at site: | Yes |
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? | Unknown |
Has analysis been done? | No |
Samples taken from where? | n/a |
Excavation and restoration campaigns: | 1920s, 1960s, 1970s |
Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Caraher, W. R., Church, Society and the Sacred in Early Christian Greece (Ohio State Univ Thesis, 2003): catalogue and passim. Available online. PAE: (1929), 67; (1960), 60-3; (1972), 39. |
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Comments: | PAE (1929): 'on the left of a furnace a large number of coloured and fragile glass and a number of tesserae coming from mossaic floor were found.' |