The Church of S. Anastasia in Rome
Name of text: | The Church of S. Anastasia in Rome |
Author of text: | Philip Barrows Whitehead |
Date of text: | 1927 |
Date of person in text: | twentieth-century |
Name of structure in text: | S. Anastasia |
Type of structure in text: | church |
Date of structure in text | fourth century |
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Country in text: | Italy |
Region in text: | Lazio |
City in text: | Rome |
Specific place of mosaic in text: | Apse |
Description of mosaic in text: | Inscription recording that the church had once been decorated with paintings by Pope Damasus (366-384) which were replaced by mosaic (pulchra metalla) in the pontificate of Hilary (461-468). |
Mosaic date in text: | 5 AD |
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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Bibliography: | Philip Barrows Whitehead, 'The Church of S. Anastasia in Rome', American Journal of Archaeology, 31.4 (Oct-Dec 1927), 405-420, see p. 412 Laurensham MS (de Rossi, Insc. Chr., II, p. 150) |
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Comments: | Record of this inscription exists in manuscript form only. |