Digenis Akrites

Name of text: Digenis Akrites
Author of text: Anon
Date of text: 10th C
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Name of structure in text: Palace [mythical]
Type of structure in text: Palace
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Country in text: Asia Minor
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City in text: imaginary
Specific place of mosaic in text: walls of castle
Description of mosaic in text: Heroes, subjects from Iliad, gospel-histories.
Mosaic date in text: 10 AD
Tesserae silver mentioned in text?
Tesserae gold mentioned in text?
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Bibliography:

Frothingham, A. L., ‘Notes of Christian Mosaics. III. The Lost Mosaics of the East’, The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, 4.2 (1888), p. 131

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