Polyeuktos
| Name of structure: | Polyeuktos |
| 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: | Constantinople |
| Date of structure: | 524-27 |
| Century of structure 1: | 6 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 6 AD |
| Specific place of mosaic: | Loose tesserae |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Firatli & Harrison (1965), 234: ‘silver, gold, and dark blue glass, white marble and white limestone; one piece is concave, clearly from a vault. Two fragments with carefully juxtaposed pink and red tesserae suggest that there may have been figures.’ Firatli & Harrison (1966), 227: ‘Wall mosaic was again found in great quantity, with some evidence for figures. Gold glass tesserae on flat, vertical surfaces were tilted, in a technique familiar from St Eirene and St Sophia.’ |
| Date of mosaic: | 6C |
| Century of mosaic 1: | 6 AD |
| Century of mosaic 2: | 6 AD |
| Silver tessera at site: | Yes |
| Gold tessera at site: | Yes |
| Colour tessera at site: | Yes |
| 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: | 1964-1971: team led by R.M. Harrison and N. Firatli |
| Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Shahid I., 'The Church of Hagios Polyeuktos in Constantinople. Some new observations', Graeco-Arabica 9-10 (2004), 343-55. Harrison, R.M., A Temple for Byzantium: The Discovery and Excavation of Anicia Juliana's Palace-Church in Istanbul (University of Texas Press, 1989). Harrison, R. M. (ed.), Excavations at Saraçhane in Istanbul, I: The Excavations, Structures, Architectural Decoration, Small finds, Coins, Bones and Molluscs (Princeton, 1985). Harrison, R. M., 'Anicia Juliana's church of St. Polyeuktos', Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 32 (1982), 435-42. Harrison, R. M., ‘The church of St. Polyeuktos in Constantinople’, Akten des VII Internationalen Kongressesfür Christliche Archäologie 1, Città del Vaticano (Berlin 1969), 543-9. Firatli, N. & Harrison, R. M., ‘Excavations at Saraçhane in Istanbul', DOP 19 (1965), 230-6; 20 (1966), 222-38; 21 (1967), 273-8; 22 (1968), 195-216. Mango, C. & Ševcenko, I., ‘Remains of the church of St. Polyeuktos at Constantinople, DOP 15 (1961), 243-7. |
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