Patria of Constantinople
Name of text: | Patria of Constantinople |
Author of text: | |
Date of text: | 989-90 |
Date of person in text: | |
Name of structure in text: | S. Stephen, Sigma |
Type of structure in text: | church |
Date of structure in text | Built by Constantine |
Century of structure 1: | 4 AD |
Century of structure 2: | 5 AD |
Country in text: | Turkey |
Region in text: | Constantinople |
City in text: | Sigma |
Specific place of mosaic in text: | |
Description of mosaic in text: | Adorned with mosaics which together with columns were removed and used by Leo VI (886-912) in the construction of All Saints. |
Mosaic date in text: | 4 AD |
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
Colour descriptions in text: | |
Bibliography: | The Patria, 3.209,trans. by Albrecht Berger (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2013), pp. 222-3 Patria ed. T. Preger, Scriptores Originum Constantinopolitanarum, (Leipzig,1907) Vol. 3, ch. 209, pp. 280-81. A. L. Frothingham, ‘Notes on 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. 138 |
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Comments: | See entry for All Saints Church |