Anthologia Marciana/Marcianus Graecus 524
Epigram L318 [Sp 357], On the depictions of John, the dear departed emperor, his son Manuel and his [Manuel’s] son Alexios

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Anthologia Marciana/Marcianus Graecus 524
Epigram L318 [Sp 357], On the depictions of John, the dear departed emperor, his son Manuel and his [Manuel’s] son Alexios
Author of text: Unknown
Date of text: 12th century, manuscript 13th century
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Type of structure in text: Unknown
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Country in text: Turkey?
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Specific place of mosaic in text: Unknown
Description of mosaic in text: Portraits of John II, Manuel I and Alexios II
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dedicatory epigrams on works of art, DPhil Thesis, Michaelmas Term 2012, University of Oxford, pp. 182, 287 [unpublished]
Grabar, André, L’empereur dans l’art byzantin (London: Variorum Reprints, 1971, reprint of the Strasburg 1936 edition), n. 2, p. 29 for Greek
Magdalino, P. and R. Nelson, ‘The Emperor in Byzantine Art of the Twelfth Century’, Byzantinische Forschungen, 8 (1982), 123-183, see pp. 146-7
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There is a reference to the golden order of the imperial family which probably alludes to gold tesserae, so possibly a mosaic.  Between 1166 and 1171 a mosaic with the portraits of John II, Manuel I and Alexios II was created.  Site unknown.  No donor mentioned so likely to be an imperial commission. 

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