Crowns of Martyrdom
| Name of text: | Crowns of Martyrdom |
| Author of text: | Prudentius |
| Date of text: | ca. 400 |
| Date of person in text: | 348-ca. 413 |
| Name of structure in text: | S. Paul's basilica |
| Type of structure in text: | Church |
| Date of structure in text | Founded 386, completed 401-3. |
| Century of structure 1: | 4 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 5 AD |
| Country in text: | Italy |
| Region in text: | Lazio |
| City in text: | Rome |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Arches |
| Description of mosaic in text: | Elsewhere on the Ostian Road keeps the memorial church of Paul […] Then he [the emperor] covered the curves of the arches with splendid glass of different hues, like meadows that are bright with flowers in the spring. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 5 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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| Bibliography: | Prudentius, Crowns of Martyrdom, XII, 1-4, 45-50, in Prudentius, trans. by H. J. Thomson, 2 vols (London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1952), v. 2, pp. 327-8. |
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