De Victor, Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis, ch. 67
| Name of text: | De Victor, Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis, ch. 67 |
| 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. Petriana Church Baptistry |
| Type of structure in text: | baptistry |
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| Country in text: | Italy |
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| City in text: | Classe |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Middle of vault on the men's (south) side, under the arch, and opposite on the women's side, in a similar position |
| Description of mosaic in text: | Indeed he decorated the tetragonal baptistery, which most blessed Peter Chrysologus built in the city of Classe next to the Petriana Church, and in the middle of the vault on the men’s side, under the arch there is a small medallion, which even today contains the following, ‘by our holy lord’, and facing on the other side the women’s, there is found another little medallion, as above, with gold letters in turn on its side, reading thus, ‘father Victor’. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 6 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
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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. 183 |
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| Comments: | Mosaic not specifically mentioned in the passage but Delyannis says it does refer to mosaic. Dliyannis says that this passage probably describes an arrangement similar to Neonian baptistery (ch. 28) and refers to a mosaic (p. 316). |