Liber Pontificalis, in vita Hilarii
| Name of text: | Liber Pontificalis, in vita Hilarii |
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| Date of person in text: | Pope Hilarius 461-68 |
| Name of structure in text: | Lateran, Oratory of the Holy Cross |
| Type of structure in text: | chapel |
| Date of structure in text | 461-68 |
| 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: | Walls |
| Description of mosaic in text: | Decorated on all sides with mosaics |
| Mosaic date in text: | 5 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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| Bibliography: | Liber Pontificalis,in vita ed. Duchesne, pp. 242-3, quoted in Eugene Muntz, ‘The Lost Mosaics of Rome IV to IX Century’, The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, 2.3 (1886), 295-313, see p. 305, trans. by Raymond Davis, The Book of Pontiffs (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1989), p. 39 |
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| Comments: | This oratory was destroyed at the time of the last restoration of the Lateran under Sixtus V (1585-90). |