Basilica A
| Name of structure: | Basilica A |
| Extended name of structure: | Basilica Dometios |
| Type of structure: | Church |
| Country or main area: | Greece |
| Region within country or main area: | Epirus |
| City or area within region: | Nikopolis |
| Date of structure: | 524-75 |
| Century of structure 1: | 6 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 6 AD |
| Specific place of mosaic: | Scattered tesserae, incl. chuncks with plaster in sanctuary and around pastophoria walls (PAE, 1930). Large amount of loose tesserae found in baptisteries (?) (PAE, 1921). Floor has glass tesserae (Spiro). |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Colours: blue, green (AE, 1917 and Spiro). |
| Date of mosaic: | 6C |
| Century of mosaic 1: | 6 AD |
| Century of mosaic 2: | 6 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: | 1915-26 |
| 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), 425-64. Kitzinger, E., 'Studies on Late Antique and early Byzantine floor mosaics I: mosaics at Nikopolis,' DOP 6 (1951), 88-92. PAE: (1915), 31-3, 59-95 (incl. photos); (1916), 32-3, 49-54; (1924), 108-15; (1926), 122-7; 127-30; (1929), 22-4; (1961), 98-107; (1964), 179-183; (1967), 179. AE: (1916), 34-54, 65-73, 121-2; (1917), 48-72; (1918), 34-41. |
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