Peter

Name of structure: Peter
Extended name of structure: Trierer Dom
Type of structure: Church
Country or main area: Germany
Region within country or main area: Rhineland-Palatinate
City or area within region: Trier
Date of structure: 4C-12C
Century of structure 1: 4 AD
Century of structure 2: 12 AD
Specific place of mosaic: Wall fragments found in the Roman core of the church.
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Flora, fauna, geometrical patterns. Colours: blue, green, red, yellow, black, white. Mosaics are almost exclusively of glass.
Date of mosaic: Second half of 4C.
Century of mosaic 1: 4 AD
Century of mosaic 2: 4 AD
Silver tessera at site: No
Gold tessera at site: No
Colour tessera at site: Yes
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? No
Has analysis been done? No
Samples taken from where? n/a
Excavation and restoration campaigns: After 1945
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Sear, F. B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts. Roemische Abteiliung 23) (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977) 173
See also:
Blanchet, A, Inventaire des mosaïques de la Gaule et de l’Afrique, vol 1 (Paris:1909), 2, no. 1251
von Wilmowsky, J. N., Der Dom zu Trier (1874), 23ff, 33. pl. 5
De Roisin, La Cathedrale de Treves (1861), 27
Kempf, Germania 29 (1951), 47ff
Parlasca, K., Die römischen Mosaiken in Deutschland (Berlin: 1959), 58, n. 2

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