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Name of structure: Unknown
Extended name of structure: Tiny chapel inside the galleries of the amphitheatre.
Type of structure: Chapel
Country or main area: Albania
Region within country or main area: Durrës
City or area within region: Durrës
Date of structure: 6C
Century of structure 1: 6 AD
Century of structure 2: 6 AD
Specific place of mosaic: West wall
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: St Stephen, Virgin, angels, 2 donors.
Date of mosaic: Undated
Century of mosaic 1:
Century of mosaic 2:
Silver tessera at site: Unknown
Gold tessera at site: Yes
Colour tessera at site: Yes
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? No
Has analysis been done? No
Samples taken from where? n/a
Excavation and restoration campaigns: 1968
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Hidri, H. &S., Die frühchristliche Basilika in Arapaj/Durres (Albanien), ed by  R. Pillinger (Vienna, Verl. der Österr. Akad. der Wiss, 2011).


Andaloro, M., 'I mosaici parietali di Durazzo o dell'origine constantinopolitana del tema iconografico di Maria Regina', in Studien zur Spätantiken und byzantinischen Kunst, ed by O. Feld & V. Peschlow (Rome, 1986), vol. 3, 103-12.


Nikolajević, I., 'Images votives de Salone et de Dyrrachium', Zbornik Radova Vizantoloskog Instituta 19 (1980), 59-70.


Ducellier, A., La Façade maritime de l’Albanie au Moyen Age. Durazzo et Valona du XIe au XVe siecle (Thessaloniki, 1981), 32–4.


Thierry, N., ‘Une mosaique à Dyrrachium’, Cahiers Archéologiques 18 (1968), 227–9.


 

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Comments: This is shown as undated as it has been given various datings from 5th-11th century

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