Nicaea church 1
| Name of structure: | Nicaea church 1 |
| Extended name of structure: | Ruins of Byzantine church in Nicaea |
| Type of structure: | Church |
| Country or main area: | Turkey |
| Region within country or main area: | Marmara |
| City or area within region: | Nicaea |
| Date of structure: | 11C-13C |
| Century of structure 1: | 11 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 13 AD |
| Specific place of mosaic: | Scattered tesserae |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | From TAY database: 'Among the ruins are geometrically arranged floor mosaics in opus sectile as well as many mosaic cubes that belong to the wall mosaics (Eyice 1949, 46-47)'. Acccessed 3 Nov 2009. See URL below. |
| Date of mosaic: | 11C-13C? |
| Century of mosaic 1: | 11 AD |
| Century of mosaic 2: | 13 AD |
| Silver tessera at site: | Unknown |
| Gold tessera at site: | Unknown |
| Colour tessera at site: | Unknown |
| Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? | Unknown |
| Has analysis been done? | Unknown |
| Samples taken from where? | n/a |
| Excavation and restoration campaigns: | 1948: team led by S. Eyice |
| Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Peschlow, U. 'Nikaia/İznik Kiliseleri [The churches of Nicaea-İznik]', in Tarih Boyunca İznik [Iznik Throughout History], ed by H. İnalcık & I. Aybaygil (Istanbul, 2004), 201-18. Papadopoulos, J. B., ‘Ho en Nikaia tes Bithynias Naos tou Hagios Tryphonos’, Epeteris tes Hetaireias Byzantinon Speudon 22 (1952), 110-3. Eyice, S., ‘İznik'te bir Bizans Kilisesi’, Belleten13/49 (1949), 37-51. |
| URLs: | http://www.tayproject.org/TAYBizansMar.fm$Retrieve?YerlesmeNo=20197&html=bizansdetaile.html&layout=web |
| Comments: | Papadopoulos thinks the church might be S. Tryphon (Papadopoulos, 1952, 110-3). Eyice disagrees and thinks that S. Tryphon is the church near the Yenisehir Gate (Eyice, 1949: pl. XXI; Peschlow, 2004, 208-9). From TAY database, accessed 3 Nov 2009. |