Historiarum Ravennatum libri decem 

Name of text: Historiarum Ravennatum libri decem 
Author of text: Rossi
Date of text: 1589
Date of person in text:
Name of structure in text: S. Maria Maggiore, Ravenna
Type of structure in text: Church
Date of structure in text 521-534
Century of structure 1: 6 AD
Century of structure 2:
Country in text: Italy
Region in text: Emelia Romagna
City in text: Ravenna
Specific place of mosaic in text: Vault of the tribune
Description of mosaic in text: Virgin Mary, Christ, angel
Mosaic date in text: 6 AD
Tesserae silver mentioned in text?
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? Yes
Colour descriptions in text:
Bibliography:

Rossi, H., Historiarum Ravennatum libri decem (Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1589), quoted in Eugene Muntz, ‘The Lost Mosaics of Ravenna’, The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, 1.2/3 (1885), 115-130, see pp. 124-5.
Girolamo Fabri Le Sagre Memorie di Ravenna Antica (Venice: 1664), p. 254.

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Comments: Fabri writing in 1664 describes it as having been destroyed.

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