Anthologia Marciana/Marcianus Graecus 524
Epigram L247 [Sp 271], On the newly built koubouklion (chamber) which is in Blachernae
| Name of text: | Anthologia Marciana/Marcianus Graecus 524 |
| Author of text: | Unknown |
| Date of text: | 12th century, manuscript 13th century |
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| Name of structure in text: | Blachernae Palace |
| Type of structure in text: | Palace |
| Date of structure in text | ca. 500 |
| Century of structure 1: | 6 AD |
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| Country in text: | Turkey |
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| City in text: | Constantinople |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | |
| Description of mosaic in text: | Depiction of Manuel Komnenos surrounded by personifications of virtues appears in 'the golden house'. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 12 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | |
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| Bibliography: | Spingou, Foteini, Words and artworks in the twelfth century and beyond: the thirteenth-century manuscript Marcianus Graecus 524 and the twelfth-century dedicatory epigrams on works of art, DPhil Thesis, Michaelmas Term 2012, University of Oxford, pp. 194, 236 [unpublished] |
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| Comments: | This entry is speculative, but mention of 'golden house' suggests the use of gold mosaic. Emperor Manuel built/expanded the Blachernae Palace and the mosaic was probably placed therein. |