La Badiazza

Name of structure: La Badiazza
Extended name of structure: La Badiazza/S. Maria della Valle/S. Maria della Scala
Type of structure: church
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Sicily
City or area within region: Near Messina
Date of structure: Founded in 12th C, and altered in 14th C.  Now abandoned.
Century of structure 1: 12 AD
Century of structure 2: 14 AD
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Brief descriptive contents of mosaic:

Head of Apostle.  Now in Messina Museum

Date of mosaic: No evidence of date but probably 14th century???
Century of mosaic 1: 14 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
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Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)?
Has analysis been done?
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Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

E. Mauceri, Il Museo Nazionale di Messina (Rome: 1929), p. 20:  D. Salazaro, Studi sui monumenti medievali della Sicilia (1877), p. 28. Otto Demus, Mosaics of Norman Sicily (London: Routledge, 1956), p. 187

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