| Name of text: |
De Ecclesius, Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis, ch. 57 |
| Author of text: |
Agnellus of Ravenna |
| Date of text: |
831-846 |
| Date of person in text: |
b. 794-804, d. after 846 |
| Name of structure in text: |
S. Mary |
| Type of structure in text: |
church |
| Date of structure in text |
522-532 |
| Century of structure 1: |
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| Country in text: |
Italy |
| Region in text: |
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| City in text: |
Ravenna |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: |
Apse |
| Description of mosaic in text: |
And this bishop on his own legal property built the church of the holy and always inviolate Virgin Mary, which you see, of wonderful size, the vault of the apse and the façade decorated with gold, and in this vault of the apse the image of the holy Mother of God […]. |
| Mosaic date in text: |
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| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? |
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| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? |
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| Bibliography: |
For translation see Agnellus of Ravenna, The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna, trans. by Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis (Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004), p. 171 |
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| Comments: |
Description does not specify mosaic but it seems likely. |
