Agata Maggiore
| Name of structure: | Agata Maggiore |
| Extended name of structure: | |
| Type of structure: | Church |
| Country or main area: | Italy |
| Region within country or main area: | Emelia Romagna |
| City or area within region: | Ravenna |
| Date of structure: | 5th and 6th century, heavily restored |
| Century of structure 1: | 5 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 6 AD |
| Specific place of mosaic: | Intrados of the apse windows |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Crosses, geometric designs, plant motifs |
| Date of mosaic: | 5th or 6th century |
| Century of mosaic 1: | 5 AD |
| Century of mosaic 2: | 6 AD |
| Silver tessera at site: | |
| Gold tessera at site: | Yes |
| Colour tessera at site: | Yes |
| Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? | |
| Has analysis been done? | |
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| Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Pasi, Silvia, ‘La decorazione musevi degli intradossi delle finistre absidali della basilica di. S. Agata Maggiore di Ravenna’,Proceedings of theThird International Colloquium in Ancient Mosaics, Ravenna 1980 (Ravenna: 1984), 65-72 Muntz, Eugene, ‘The Lost Mosaics of Ravenna’, The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, 1.2/3 (1885), 115-130, see. pp. 116-7 |
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| Comments: | Church standing today but main apse mosaic no longer extant, destroyed in earthquake of 1688. Had 3 horizontal bands – bottom priests including bishop. Middle windows and columns. Top Christ in scarlet robe blessing with 2 angels |
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