Annales Ecclesiastici

Name of text:

Annales Ecclesiastici

Author of text: Caesar Baronius
Date of text: 1588-1607
Date of person in text: 1538-1607
Name of structure in text: S. Pancrazio
Type of structure in text: Basilica
Date of structure in text Built by Honorius in 630
Century of structure 1: 7 AD
Century of structure 2:
Country in text: Italy
Region in text: Lazio
City in text: Rome
Specific place of mosaic in text: Apse
Description of mosaic in text: Baronius quotes an inscription that was in the apse, part of the mosaic
Mosaic date in text: 7 AD
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? No
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? No
Colour descriptions in text:
Bibliography:

Cardinal Caesar Baronius (1538-1607), Annales Ecclesiastici, sub anno 638,quoted in Muntz, Eugene, ‘The Lost Mosaics of Rome IV to IX Century’, The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, 6.1/2 (1890), 1-9, see p. 4

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Comments: This is speculative.  Baronius was a secondary source and the text does not specifically state mosaic.

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