| Name of text: |
De sacris aedibus Deiparae ad Fontem |
| Author of text: |
Anon |
| Date of text: |
10th |
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| Name of structure in text: |
Virgin Pege/Virgin of the Source/Spring |
| Type of structure in text: |
church |
| Date of structure in text |
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| Country in text: |
Asia Minor |
| Region in text: |
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| City in text: |
Constantinople |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: |
The dome. |
| Description of mosaic in text: |
When the ladders were set up so that the men who were going to execute the holy images in mosaic might climb to a sufficient height - it was the holy feast of the Descent of the Ghost [Penticost] that was being represented by the application of various colours and lineaments - it happened that the scaffolding and ladders began to collapse in the direction of the ambo ... |
| Mosaic date in text: |
9 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? |
No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? |
No |
| Colour descriptions in text: |
variegated |
| Bibliography: |
De sacris aedibus Deiparae ad Fontem, p. 882, quoted in Cyril Mango, The Art of the Byzantine Empire 312-1453 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972, repr. 1986), pp. 201-2 |
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