Vita Basilii
| Name of text: | Vita Basilii |
| Author of text: | Anon |
| Date of text: | 10th century |
| Date of person in text: | ruled 866-886 |
| Name of structure in text: | Christ/Shrine of God our Saviour |
| Type of structure in text: | church |
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| Country in text: | Asia Minor |
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| City in text: | Constantinople |
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| Description of mosaic in text: | […] in many parts of the [chancel] beam the figure of our Lord, the God-Man, is rendered in enamel (chumeusis) |
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| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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| Bibliography: | Chronographiae quae Theophanis Continuati Nomine Fertur Liber quo Vita Basilii Imperatoris Amplectitur, trans by Ihor Šev?enko (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011), 87.41, pp. 284-87 Mango, Cyril, The Art of the Byzantine Empire 312-1453 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986), p. 196 |
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