Ilissos Basilica

Name of structure: Ilissos Basilica
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Church
Country or main area: Greece
Region within country or main area: Attica
City or area within region: Island of Ilissos
Date of structure: 6C
Century of structure 1: 6 AD
Century of structure 2: 6 AD
Specific place of mosaic:

Fragments in Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens.

Brief descriptive contents of mosaic:

Green, blues, turquoise, red.

Date of mosaic: 5C?
Century of mosaic 1: 5 AD
Century of mosaic 2: 5 AD
Silver tessera at site: Unknown
Gold tessera at site: Unknown
Colour tessera at site: Yes
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? Unknown
Has analysis been done? No
Samples taken from where? n/a
Excavation and restoration campaigns:
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Caraher, W. R., Church, Society and the Sacred in Early Christian Greece (Ohio State Univ Thesis, 2003): catalogue and passim. Available online.


Spiro, M., Critical Corpus of the Mosaic Pavement on the Greek mainland, 4C-6C with Architectural Surveys, 2 vols. (Garland, NY and London, 1978), no. 10-13 , p 30.


Assimakopoulou-Atzaka, P., Syntagma ton Palaiochristianikon Psiphidoton Dapedon tis Ellados. (Thessaloniki 1987), no 72.


PAE (1893), 124-5; (1948), 69-80.


AE (1917), 106; (1919), 1-31.


 


 

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