Patria of Constantinople
Name of text: | Patria of Constantinople |
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Date of text: | 989-90 |
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Name of structure in text: | Chalke (Brazen) Gate |
Type of structure in text: | gate |
Date of structure in text | 6th C |
Century of structure 1: | 6 AD |
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Country in text: | Turkey |
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City in text: | Constantinople |
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Description of mosaic in text: | At the so-called Brazen Gate [Chalke Gate] … the mosaic image of Christ which can be seen today was made by Eirene the Athenian (780-802). |
Mosaic date in text: | 8 AD |
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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Bibliography: | The Patria, 3.20,trans. by Albrecht Berger (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2013), pp. 146-7 |
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