Kalenderhane Camii

Name of structure: Kalenderhane Camii
Extended name of structure: Theotokos Kyriotissa
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: 6th and 12C
Century of structure 1: 6 AD
Century of structure 2: 12 AD
Specific place of mosaic:


Archangel Michael: by west door to Bema in Diaconicon.
Other scattered remains and loose tesserae (see Striker and Kuban reports).
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Archangel Michael.
Date of mosaic:
Archangel: early Palaeologian (Striker & Kuban, 1968).
Century of mosaic 1: 13 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
Silver tessera at site: Unknown
Gold tessera at site: Yes
Colour tessera at site: Yes
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? Unknown: other finds displayed in small museum located in the diaconicon of the Kalenderhane Mosque.

 
Has analysis been done? No
Samples taken from where? n/a
Excavation and restoration campaigns: 1966-1975: team from Istanbul Technical University and Harvard University led by C. L. Striker and D. Kuban
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Striker, C. L. & Dogan Kuban, Y. (eds), Kalenderhane in Istanbul: the buildings, their history, architecture and decoration: final reports on the archaeological exploration and restoration at Kalenderhane Camii 1966-1978 (Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1997).


Striker, C. L. & Dogan Kuban, Y., 'Work at Kalenderhande Camii in Istanbul', DOP 21 (1967), 267-71; 22 (1968), 185-93; 25 (1971), 251-8.
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