Monastery of Constantine Lips, Theotokos tou Lisbos
| Name of structure: | Monastery of Constantine Lips, Theotokos tou Lisbos |
| Extended name of structure: | North church of the Monastery of Lips complex which also consists of the later Hagia Ioannes Prodromos tou Lisbos. Now Fenari Isa Camii |
| 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: | North Church 907 [South Church late 13th century] |
| Century of structure 1: | 10 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 13 AD |
| Specific place of mosaic: | Vaults in North Church. |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | |
| Date of mosaic: | 10th century |
| Century of mosaic 1: | 10 AD |
| Century of mosaic 2: | |
| Silver tessera at site: | |
| Gold tessera at site: | |
| Colour tessera at site: | Unknown |
| Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? | |
| Has analysis been done? | Unknown |
| Samples taken from where? | |
| Excavation and restoration campaigns: | 1929: team led by Macridy (published 1964) 1960-: team from Ministry of Mosques continued by Byzantine Institute led by Megaw |
| Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Krautheimer, Richard, Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture (London: Penguin Books Ltd., 1965, repr. 1986), pp. 358-362 Marinis V., The Monastery tou Libos: Architecture, Sculpture, and Liturgical Planning in Middle and Late Byzantine Constantinople (PhD Diss., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005).
Mango M. M., 'Polychrome tiles found at Istanbul: typology, chronology, and function', in A Lost Art Rediscovered: The Architectural Ceramics of Byzantium, ed by S. E. Gerstel & J. A. Lauffenburger (Baltimore, 2001), 13-41.
Macridy, T., 'The Monastery of Lips and the burials of the Palaeologi', DOP 18 (1964), 253-78.
Mango C. & Hawkins, E. J. W., 'Additional notes on the Monastery of Lips', DOP 18 (1964), 299-315.
Megaw, A. H. S., 'The original form of the Theotokos Church of Constantine Lips', DOP 18 (1964), 279-98.
Megaw, A. H. S, 'Notes on recent work of the Byzantine Institute in Istanbul',DOP 19 (1963), 333-5. |
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| Comments: | In 1636 walls were scraped down to brick and replastered and fragments of mosaic left where they fell. Fragments in two sepulchral niches. Great deal of tesserae found among debris used to heighten the floor of the Chapel of S. John the Baptist in the South Church. |