De Maximiano, Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis, ch. 72
| Name of text: | De Maximiano, Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis, ch. 72 |
| Author of text: | Agnellus |
| Date of text: | 830-846, |
| Date of person in text: | b. 794-804, d. after 846 |
| Name of structure in text: | S. Stephen, Ravenna |
| Type of structure in text: | church |
| Date of structure in text | 6 |
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| Country in text: | Italy |
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| City in text: | Ravenna |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | apse of the church,monasteria (chapels) |
| Description of mosaic in text: | And he built from the foundations the church of S. Stephen, deacon and martyr, here in Ravenna, not far from the Ovilian gate; he enhanced it with wonderful size and furnished it most beautifully, and in the vaults of the apse his image is fixed in multicoloured mosaic, and is surrounded by wonderful glasswork […]. At the sides of this basilica he added small monasteria, which all appear marvellously with new gold mosaics and various other stones fixed in plaster […]. In the monasterium on the men’s side you will find six mosaic letters; they lead the ignorant into error, for the knowledgeable understand that there is written MU.SI.VA. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 6 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
| Colour descriptions in text: | variegated |
| Bibliography: | For translation see Agnellus of Ravenna, The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna, trans. by Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis (Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004), pp. 187-88 |
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