Breviarium
Name of text: | Breviarium |
Author of text: | Nikephoros, 758-828 |
Date of text: | 758-828 |
Date of person in text: | |
Name of structure in text: | Hagia Sophia |
Type of structure in text: | church |
Date of structure in text | 6 |
Century of structure 1: | 6 AD |
Century of structure 2: | 6 AD |
Country in text: | Asia Minor |
Region in text: | |
City in text: | Constantinople |
Specific place of mosaic in text: | in the reception rooms |
Description of mosaic in text: | Christ, saints |
Mosaic date in text: | 8 AD |
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
Colour descriptions in text: | |
Bibliography: | Trans can be found in Mango, Cyril, The Art of the Byzantine Empire 312-1453 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986), p. 153 |
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Comments: | Account describes how in 768/9 Nicetas, patriarch of Constantinople 766-80, 'scraped off the images of the Saviour and the saints made of golden mosaic and melted wax'. |