Archbishop's Palace
| Name of structure: | Archbishop's Palace |
| Extended name of structure: | |
| Type of structure: | palace |
| Country or main area: | Belgium |
| Region within country or main area: | |
| City or area within region: | Liège |
| Date of structure: | 8th century |
| Century of structure 1: | 8 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | |
| Specific place of mosaic: | |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | tesserae of various colours originating from, without doubt, the first episcopal palace of Liège erected by S. Hubert in the middle of the 8th century, are exhibited in the Curtius Museum in Liège’ |
| Date of mosaic: | 8th century |
| Century of mosaic 1: | 8 AD |
| Century of mosaic 2: | |
| Silver tessera at site: | |
| Gold tessera at site: | |
| Colour tessera at site: | Yes |
| Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? | |
| Has analysis been done? | |
| Samples taken from where? | |
| Excavation and restoration campaigns: | |
| Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Krueger, I and K. H. Wedepohl, ‘Composition and shapes of glass of the early medieval period (8th to 10th century AD) in Central Europe’, in Echanges of commerce du verre dans le monde antique (actes du colloque internatonal de l’AFAV Aix-en Provence et Marsailles juin 2001)(Monographie Instrumentum 24), edd D. Foy and M. D. Nenna (Montagnac 2003), 93-100 |
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| Comments: | Palace no longer extant, but tesserae are in the local museum, the Musee Curtius. |
| Record Incomplete | |