Liber Pontificalis, in vita Ioannis VII
Name of text: | Liber Pontificalis, in vita Ioannis VII |
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Date of person in text: | John VII 705-707 |
Name of structure in text: | Old St. Peter's |
Type of structure in text: | Church |
Date of structure in text | 4th, 13th |
Century of structure 1: | 4 AD |
Century of structure 2: | 13 AD |
Country in text: | Italy |
Region in text: | Lazio |
City in text: | Rome |
Specific place of mosaic in text: | Walls |
Description of mosaic in text: | Inside St. Peter’s church he built an oratory of the holy mother of God, coloured its walls with mosaic, expended there a large amount of gold and silver, and set up images of the venerable Fathers on the right and left. |
Mosaic date in text: | 8 AD |
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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Bibliography: | Liber Pontificalis, in vita Ioannis VII, ed. Duchesne, trans. by Raymond Davis, The Book of Pontiffs (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1989), p. 88 |
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