Museum Basilica
| Name of structure: | Museum Basilica |
| Extended name of structure: | Formerly known as 'Basilica Gamma' |
| Type of structure: | Church |
| Country or main area: | Greece |
| Region within country or main area: | Macedonia |
| City or area within region: | Philippi |
| Date of structure: | 6C |
| Century of structure 1: | 6 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 6 AD |
| Specific place of mosaic: | Scattered tesserae on the ground. |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | n/a |
| 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)? | Glass cakes (blue (21g) and green (393g)). |
| Has analysis been done? | No |
| Samples taken from where? | n/a |
| Excavation and restoration campaigns: | 1914: French Archaeological School |
| Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Antonaras, A., 'Early Christian glass finds from the Museum Basilica, Philippi', Journal of Glass Studies 49 (2007), 47-56. Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou, E., 'The Basilica of Philippoi's Museum', Archaeologiko Ergo ste Makedonia kai Thrake 2 (1988), 409-15. Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou, E., 'The north ground of buildings attached to the basilica at Philippi Museum, Archaeologiko Ergo ste Makedonia kai Thrake 10b (1996), 735-44.
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| Comments: | Tesserae in various colours, esp. gold, silver, light green, red, blue, brown. Size: square and rectangular, 0,003m. - 0,010m. Iron nails found in the basilica were used for placing of the wall mosaics. |