Letter x, Book II
Name of text: | Letter x, Book II |
Author of text: | Sidonius, Gaius Apollinaris Sidonius |
Date of text: | mid 5C |
Date of person in text: | c. 431-490 |
Name of structure in text: | S. Justus |
Type of structure in text: | church |
Date of structure in text | mid 5 C |
Century of structure 1: | 5 AD |
Century of structure 2: | |
Country in text: | Gaul (France) |
Region in text: | Gallia Lugdunesis |
City in text: | Lugdunum (Lyon) |
Specific place of mosaic in text: | ceiling, vaulting, floors, windows |
Description of mosaic in text: | marble of various tints, grass-green incrustation with winding lines of sapphire-hued stones over leek-green glass |
Mosaic date in text: | 5 AD |
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
Colour descriptions in text: | sapphire leekgreen grass green |
Bibliography: | Sidonius, Letters, Book II Ep. x. 8-14 in Sidonius, Poems and Letters, trans. by W. B. Anderson, 2 vols (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1936), vol. I, pp. 464-467 |
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