Basilica B
| Name of structure: | Basilica B |
| Extended name of structure: | Thought to be the episcopal basilica. |
| 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: | 419-516 |
| Century of structure 1: | 5 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 6 AD |
| Specific place of mosaic: | South complex has loose scattered tesserae (DXAE, 1927). |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | n/a |
| Date of mosaic: | 5C-6C |
| Century of mosaic 1: | 5 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: | 1921-38 |
| 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), 465-488. Kitzinger, E., 'Studies on Late Antique and early Byzantine floor mosaics I: mosaics at Nikopolis', DOP 6 (1951), 88-92. PAE (1921), 11-2, 42-4; (1922-3), 8, 40-4; (1924), 72-4, 108-12; (1926), 127-30; (1929), 22-4, 83-6; (1937), 15, 78-81; (1938), 16-8, 112-7; (1930), 21-3, 79-80. AE (1922), 66-79. DXAE 4/2 (1924), 121-7; 4/2 (1927), 46-61.
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