Nicaea church 2
| Name of structure: | Nicaea church 2 |
| Extended name of structure: | |
| Type of structure: | Church |
| Country or main area: | Turkey |
| Region within country or main area: | Marmara |
| City or area within region: | Nicaea |
| Date of structure: | 1000 (Schneider); 13C (Eyice); 11C-13C (Peschlow). |
| Century of structure 1: | 11 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 13 AD |
| Specific place of mosaic: | Scattered tesserae (Eyice, 1983, 156-7). |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | n/a |
| Date of mosaic: | 11C-13C? |
| Century of mosaic 1: | 11 AD |
| Century of mosaic 2: | 13 AD |
| Silver tessera at site: | Unknown |
| Gold tessera at site: | Unknown |
| Colour tessera at site: | Unknown |
| Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? | Unknown |
| Has analysis been done? | Unknown |
| Samples taken from where? | n/a |
| Excavation and restoration campaigns: | 1932-38: team led by A.M. Schneider |
| Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Peschlow, U. 'Nikaia/İznik Kiliseleri [The churches of Nicaea-İznik]', in Tarih Boyunca İznik [Iznik Throughout History], ed by H. İnalcık & I. Aybaygil (Istanbul, 2004), 201-18. Eyice, S., ‘Die byzantinische Kirche in der nähe des Yenişehir Tores zu İznik (Nikaia); Kirches’, Materialia Turcica, 7-8 (1983), 152-67. Schneider, A.M., ‘Die Römischen und Byzantinischen Denkmäler Von Izinik-Nicaea’, (Istanbuler Forschungen 16) (Berlin, 1943). |
| URLs: | http://www.tayproject.org/TAYBizansMar.fm$Retrieve?YerlesmeNo=20198&html=bizansdetaile.html&layout=web |
| Comments: | Possibly S. Tryphon (Papadopoulos, 1952, 110-3). See record for Nicaea church 1 (no. 186) for more information. |