Patria of Constantinople
Name of text: | Patria of Constantinople |
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Date of text: | 989-90 |
Date of person in text: | 886-912 |
Name of structure in text: | All Saints Church |
Type of structure in text: | Church |
Date of structure in text | 886-912 |
Century of structure 1: | 9 AD |
Century of structure 2: | 10 AD |
Country in text: | Turkey |
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City in text: | Constantinople |
Specific place of mosaic in text: | |
Description of mosaic in text: | Constantine the Great erected Saint Stephen near the Sigma. [the actual founder was Aurelianos, consul in 400]. Emperor Leo (VI 886-912) rebuilt it on a small scale and stored all the materials – the golden mosaic cubes, the multi-coloured [marble] stones and the columns – at the Holy Apostles, and built a church, that of All Saints. |
Mosaic date in text: | 9 AD |
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | |
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 |
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Comments: | This implies re-use of the fourth century tesserae from S. Stephen. |