Vita Eutychius

Name of text: Vita Eutychius
Author of text: Eustratius
Date of text: 552-, 577-582
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Type of structure in text: temple-church
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Country in text: Asia Minor
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City in text: Amaseia
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Description of mosaic in text: old Aphrodite, new Michael
A mosaicist badly damaged his hand while removing the pagan mosaic, but the saint healed it during conversion of a house to Christian worship.  Linda Jones hall questions whether he was going to reuse the tesserae.
Mosaic date in text: 6 AD
Tesserae silver mentioned in text?
Tesserae gold mentioned in text?
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Bibliography: Hall, Linda Jones, Roman Berytus: Beirut in Late Antiquity (London: 2004), p. 238
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