Spicilegium Romanum

Name of text: Spicilegium Romanum
Author of text: Onofrio Panvinio
Date of text: 16th century
Date of person in text: 1529-1568
Name of structure in text: Old St. Peter's, Oratory of the Virgin
Type of structure in text: chapel
Date of structure in text Constructed by Pope Gregory III (731-741)
Century of structure 1: 4 AD
Century of structure 2: 8 AD
Country in text: Italy
Region in text: Lazio
City in text: Rome
Specific place of mosaic in text: archways
Description of mosaic in text: adorned by beautiful mosaic figures
Mosaic date in text: 8 AD
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? Yes
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? No
Colour descriptions in text:
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Panvinio, Onofrio, apud Mai, Spicilegium Romanum, t. ix, p. 42, quoted in Eugene Muntz, ‘The Lost Mosaics of Rome IV to IX Century’, The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, 2.3 (1886), 295-313, see p. 299

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