Liber Pontificalis, in vita Leonis III
| Name of text: | Liber Pontificalis, in vita Leonis III |
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| Date of person in text: | Pope Leo III 795-816 |
| Name of structure in text: | Lateran, Oratory of the Archangel |
| Type of structure in text: | chapel |
| Date of structure in text | 795-816 |
| Century of structure 1: | 8 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 9 AD |
| Country in text: | Italy |
| Region in text: | Lazio |
| City in text: | Rome |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | All over |
| Description of mosaic in text: | he [Leo] constructed it stoutly in opus Signinum [plaster] and adorned it all over with mosaics, various pictures and very beautiful marble minerals in various colours |
| Mosaic date in text: | 9 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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| Bibliography: | Liber Pontificalis, in vita Leonis III, 92, ed. Duchesne, 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 pp. 304-5, trans. by Raymond Davis, The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1992), p. 223 |
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| Comments: | Oratory destroyed ca. 1613 |