Nicaea church 2

Name of structure: Nicaea church 2
Extended name of structure:
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: 1000 (Schneider); 13C (Eyice); 11C-13C (Peschlow).
Century of structure 1: 11 AD
Century of structure 2: 13 AD
Specific place of mosaic: Scattered tesserae (Eyice, 1983, 156-7).
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: n/a
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:

1932-38: team led by A.M. Schneider
1964-: team led by O. Aslanapa

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.


Eyice, S., ‘Die byzantinische Kirche in der nähe des Yenişehir Tores zu İznik (Nikaia); Kirches’, Materialia Turcica, 7-8 (1983), 152-67.


Schneider, A.M., ‘Die Römischen und Byzantinischen Denkmäler Von Izinik-Nicaea’, (Istanbuler Forschungen 16) (Berlin, 1943).

URLs: http://www.tayproject.org/TAYBizansMar.fm$Retrieve?YerlesmeNo=20198&html=bizansdetaile.html&layout=web
Comments: Possibly S. Tryphon (Papadopoulos, 1952, 110-3). See record for Nicaea church 1 (no. 186) for more information.

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