Patria of Constantinople

Name of text: Patria of Constantinople
Author of text:
Date of text: 989-90
Date of person in text:
Name of structure in text: S. Stephen, Sigma
Type of structure in text: church
Date of structure in text Built by Constantine
Century of structure 1: 4 AD
Century of structure 2: 5 AD
Country in text: Turkey
Region in text: Constantinople
City in text: Sigma
Specific place of mosaic in text:
Description of mosaic in text: Adorned with mosaics which together with columns were removed and used by Leo VI (886-912) in the construction of All Saints.
Mosaic date in text: 4 AD
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? No
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? Yes
Colour descriptions in text:
Bibliography:

The Patria, 3.209,trans. by Albrecht Berger (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2013), pp. 222-3


Patria ed. T. Preger, Scriptores Originum Constantinopolitanarum, (Leipzig,1907) Vol. 3, ch. 209, pp. 280-81. A. L. Frothingham, ‘Notes on Christian Mosaics. III. The Lost Mosaics of the East’, The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, 4.2 (1888), p. 138

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Comments: See entry for All Saints Church

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